Re: Central Air Conditioner - Landlord Forum thread 358218

Re: Central Air Conditioner by lpadave on July 21, 2018 @19:14

.......Landlord has advised tenant, and tenant understands and accepts that at no time should the AC thermostat when in cooling mode, be lowered (set) to more than three (3) degrees below the ambient room temperature as then being displayed on the thermostat.

Further, tenant should allow at least one (1) hour after ambient room temperature has reached the cooling set point as last adjusted (set),....before further lowering the cooling set point.

Failure to follow these directions may result in cooling system freeze ups, condensation flooding and / or damage to system components including possible catastrophic failure of system compressor, all as billable, including service calls for ''no cooling'' to tenant as added rent.

I specifically verbally go over and explain this AND WHY to the tenant,....and make sure they understand the basic physics of cooling.

unfortunately most don't ,....and don't care.

I insist they completely shut down the system for at least four (4) hours then re start to see if it works before I will go further.

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Re: Central Air Conditioner by June on July 22, 2018 @21:27	[ Reply ]

Thanks Dave, I will use your info. Yes, I have the LPA lease and it does provide for T's to maintain and be responsible for caring properly for hvac system. I will add your clauses to the LPA lEASE to protect the expensive hvac system from damages by T's. This T left town for 3 wks. shut off hvac system while outdoor temps were close to 100 degrees. ??? temp indoors with no A/C running. When he returned, he set it for 60 degrees and kept fiddeling with and changing the temp on thermostat. Froze the system. The rest is history. I got an HVAC invoice which I will charge to him as unpaid rent. Thanks again, June