AirCon Overkill

Airconditionersinaustin

I saw this house in Austin Texas last month. Anyone care to count the airconditioners?

Andrew

Andrew Jones launched his first internet space in 1997 and has been teaching on related issues for the past 20 years. He travels all the time but lives between Wellington, San Francisco and a hobbit home in Prague.

3 Comments

  • Mike Bishop says:

    Andrew,
    As a HVAC engineer, my professional opinion is that either that is actually a restaurant posing as a house or someone has a death wish and wants their roof to collapse. Looks like they have a couple upblast exhaust fans (for cooking hoods), remote compressors for walk-in coolers / freezers, as well as about 20-30 tons of regular air conditioning. Nuts.
    -Mike

  • When I lived in Arkansas, a man bragged to me that he had purchased one of the huge AC units from a Wal-Mart that had closed down, and hooked it up at his small house. He said he fired it up, went out for a while, and found his house frozen when he returned.
    True story – I kid you not.

  • Scott Ringo says:

    Those are swamp coolers, different than a/c units.

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