AC is breaking and scared to seek out repair service
Tatoulia
Posted: 13 November 2014 - 06:16 AM
Can you check Craig's list to see if there are any day labor era or handymen that can come over? You could coordinate with a dumpster. I am so touched by your story. I want you to find some help.
Gem
Posted: 13 November 2014 - 01:00 AM
We're in MS. There's a shrink listed under resources for this state then the cleanup company listed doesn't actually serve MS and is listed in the wrong place.
My Mom is 62 so I don't know if she'd qualify for the program mentioned but I'll try and look to see if I can find something like that. I didn't hear anything back from the couple of emails I sent off early Wednesday morning.
As I mentioned before if some people came to the door tomorrow and said they'd take away all this trash and etc. we'd welcome them in to let them. We're not attached to the trash at all. With all the trash and etc. gone we'd actually have space for our actual stuff that's under some of the piled up empty boxes and etc. We'd have room for pieces of furniture even if they were cheap garage shelves that could provide storage. It's just so frustrating because in my head I can get rid of all this stuff and do what I want to to but physically it's not that easy.
Cali Gal
Posted: 12 November 2014 - 06:43 PM
Gem - Are you or your mom eligible for a government run Home Health Service. This is a program for those on Medicaid. IN California it's called IHSS or In-Home Support Services. There may also be a PACE program in your area. PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) is a Medicare and Medicaid program that helps people meet their health care needs. Either of these programs will provide you with a health caregiver who can help in cleaning the house. Age is 65+ or disabled for either program. PACE is really great because they are an all-inclusive with health, dental, hearing, vision and a variety of therapies.
Good Luck and keep us posted!
:) Chin up always!
Tatoulia
Posted: 12 November 2014 - 04:11 PM
Gem, have you checked the companies in this site? I'm not sure what state you are in but I have it on good authority that there is at least one company listed for each state. I don't know the $$. Please keep us posted.
Tatoulia
Posted: 12 November 2014 - 11:36 AM
Gem, do you live anywhere near a college? Because I'm wondering if you could post a job for several strong college students to come out for an afternoon to put things in dumpster. You could rent a dumpster for a day or two and pay the college students $10 an hour. Will you and your mother be able to let the trash go that easily? Or do you need help from someone who can provide emotional support during the trash clean up?
Please keep posting. We will provide you with encouragent and support when you are feeling like you are at your wits' end. We will help you through this.
Gem
Posted: 12 November 2014 - 03:49 AM
We're in the South so finding help here for just about anything is kind of hard.
I've googled and haven't been able to find anything in this area that would be helpful. I did find a page with the county's senior service outreach department email address. I am much better putting my thoughts and what's going on into print then over the phone. On the phone or even in person I get so very nervous that I get jumbled, flustered and etc. So I sent an email to the email address I found.
I tried looking up small trash haulers but all I could find were companies that rent out dumpsters and the company that picks up trash in the area.
If someone appeared at our door tomorrow with people to get this stuff out and a way to haul it away I'd tell them to have at it. Most of it is trash bags, empty boxes and pizza boxes. The rest of it is stuff in boxes I've ordered that has had no place to go. Most of the boxes that have that kind of stuff in them are underneath the piles of empty ones though.
After we finally got to move in after being stuck in that FEMA trailer for years we didn't and still don't have much furniture. My Mom moved back into this house while I was sick in early 2012 as I mentioned before. The volunteer group that fixed our home gave us some furniture but it wasn't much that was easy to use for people with mobility issues. Instead of a basic dinner table with a couple chairs they put a heavy breakfast table with a fake marble looking top and two high stools for seating with that, a couch that neither of us can barely get off of, a highback chair, 2 dresser drawer sets and one full size bed.
Since we didn't move in immediately after they were done they came in and took one of the two beds they had given us and gave it to someone else since they still had keys to our home. We were thankful for what we got but with no outside help that might deliver for a small fee we couldn't go to someone like The Goodwill and get additional furniture we could actually use.
During one of my Mom's hospital stays in this past year we got one of the Dr's to prescribe a hospital bed for her so now she has her own bed in her own room. I've tried my best to keep all of this crap out of her room but some boxes of actual stuff have gotten into her room in a corner but in an area out of the way.
Thank you all for your replies and understanding. I'm so used to being told what I've done wrong, how I've screwed up and etc. by everyone except my Mom. It's easier for people to be like that instead of asking the person they are criticizing if they need help because if they ask the response they get may actually force them to have to help in some way.
Dianne
Posted: 11 November 2014 - 08:41 AM
Gem, I love the long post! Helps us get to know you better, no apologies necessary at all.
You and your mom have certainly had much more than your share of troubles. And you are both very strong women to have kept going against all the obstacles.
I'm sorry there hasn't been family or friends to help out. But you will get plenty of support here. Just having people to *talk* to can make your burden a little lighter.
Dave had some good suggestions about getting the trash out. You mentioned your balance problem coming back up the hill. Can you get one of those canes that has a base with 4 small feet on it? Go to mobilitycare.com and look at rollators. They are cool things that help you keep good balance and transport small things. You can also sit on them if you need a rest. Looks like they average $150 with a few heavy duty models over $200. That beats paying the other woman $200 for 1 hour of her services and another $200 for her friend.
All that sparkly, festive Christmas stuff on tv is hard to ignore. But it is very, very stressful trying to make those perfect Christmases in real life. You have your mom and she has you and doing what you can for each other is the best Christmas gift. If you can get one of those battery powered candles those are nice to look at and can give that sense of light and warmth that underlies the season.
We're here for you. :)
Tatoulia
Posted: 10 November 2014 - 04:22 PM
Here to offer support, Gem. I tell you from the bottom of. my heart I wish I had the resources to come out and help you.
I have a question: I'd not for the physical issues, would you be able to get rid of the trash? If someone came right now and worked for an afternoon, would you and your mother allow the person to take the trash out/haul it away? Will one it more of you need to look at each bag first?
We will support you here. You can have a warmer and nicer Christmas this year. Maybe not the ones you see on tv, but better than you have right now.
Keep your chin up, Gem.
Dianne
Posted: 10 November 2014 - 12:09 PM
Whoa Gem, do NOT pay that woman and her friend $400 and hour to help you!!!
In case you missed it here is the reply Dave posted to you in Cleanup Help.
Taking what you've said at face value, it does not sound to me like you need a $200 an hour organizer to start.
What it sounds to me like you need is a trustworthy small trash hauler. Someone that would have a large truck and 2 guys you could trust to be in the house with you and your mom. They would come in the house, take out bags and boxes you pointed to and repeat that until the truck was full. They would take the truck to the dump. Repeat the cycle until built up accumulation of trash bags and boxes is gone.
Then on an ongoing basis, you need some kind of help to get your trash to the curb for pickup.
That is the approach I would be looking at in my locale anyway.
Is there any kind of community assistance/disabled assistance/elder assistance organization in your area that you discuss the need for that kind of help over the phone with?
Gem
Posted: 10 November 2014 - 12:45 AM
Holy crap I didn't realize my last reply was so long. I apologize for that.
I've googled and searched my fingers out. That's how I ended up finding that organizer that wanted over $200 per hour for her and $200 per hour for a friend of hers since she figured my issues were too much to handle on her own if she could help at all
Gem
Posted: 10 November 2014 - 12:41 AM
My Mom has been seeing a cancer specialist off and on. She's ok in the head but physically is the issue and it's hard getting to places. She drives and I don't but we only really go out for Dr's appointments. I get her to the car and out and she drives to and from the Dr's offices. I actually still don't know how to drive because we've never been able to afford 2 people on the insurance and there's never been anyone to teach me and I felt guilty trying to put that on my Mom's shoulders.
We don't have any friends or family. Nobody wants to be friends with sick people, it's hard for sick people to be social enough to make friends and as for family they don't care at all. The ones who did passed away long ago.
The hill we live on isn't a big one and to most everyone else it would look so small. It's a regular neighborhood but the house is built on the hill and trying to go up and down it when one has balance issues can be anxiety inducing. Which is what I think part of my dizzy spells are from.
The home health quit coming partly because of the house and because my Mom wasn't going to the Dr regularly enough for them. Knowing she had cancer and was having trouble getting to the Dr. the R.N. nurse kept trying to discharge her ALL the time saying she wasn't bad off enough to need their care. One day they just didn't come back and we never heard from them again.
Which I don't understand at all but of course they'd come in, wouldn't stay long and then would leave. The social worker wouldn't talk to me in front of my Mom and I couldn't make him. So I could never prove the jail thing he said to me unless he admitted it. When I told my Mom what he said she called him once and bitched him out. He had never spoken to her before. His only reply was to whine and said to quit harassing him. *SIGH*
The one neighbor we do know from before Katrina who still lives next door isn't really the kind of person who'd help with anything like this. He's kind of wrapped up in his own life. The others we don't know and never have talked to since we finally got back into our home in 2012. That's a whole other story of how we might be loosing it because it was sold in a tax sale while we were stuck in a FEMA trailer and we were never notified of the sale. It's so complicated but we don't own our home anymore even though it was purchased and paid for in 98. We have legal help with that though.
I'm scared to mention the hoarding issues to her Dr's because they might call APS right then and there and I don't know what either of us would do if that happened. I should have called APS/Community Services/etc. last year before it got this bad but that social worker scared the crap out of me.
There's twice weekly trash pickup but I can't get that can to and from the house. I could get it down because I'd be able to lean on it but on the way back up would be trouble. The house is hoarded with mostly trash bags of trash neither of us could get out there and boxes some folded up from ordering food and household items online since we can't really go inside stores anymore.
It's been the two of us for so long and that was ok until my Mom got sicker and I started getting sick. I aspirated during gastro tests a couple years ago, was in an induced coma for 2 weeks, spent time in a specialty hospital and then a nursing home for rehab which I had to leave early due to insurance even though I wasn't ready. Then due to a UTI I had in the nursing home that never went away a few weeks after I got out I ended up in the hospital with urinary sepsis. Ever since then balance, endurance, dizziness and etc have been issues.
Not long after I started getting around better is when my Mom had to have a kidney removed due to cancer and when we got home from that last Summer is when the hoarding started in force and has gotten so bad since. I can only get to the fridge in the kitchen now so we usually order pizza or whatever for dinner then snack earlier in the day. We order some stuff from Schwan's Delivery Service but as mentioned with the mess now in the kitchen too cooking really isn't an option.
Ugh I know what I need to do but it gets so tiring getting blamed, criticized and to be made to feel like a really capitalistic worthless person by people who's jobs are to help.
This time of the year is the worst because there's the tv movies, commercials and etc. celebrating holiday togetherness, miracles and all that stuff. Then for my Mom and me it's another year alone knowing nobody would care if both of us died. It would be humiliating to be dead and the state of this house was the last thing anyone remembered about us.
Dianne
Posted: 06 November 2014 - 10:39 AM
Hi Gem, I'm so sorry you are having such a hard time.
It sounds like with the health difficulties of you and your mom there must be some type of intervention and you want that help. This is just my opinion, but I don't think APS would put you in jail. Maybe the social worker meant you would be held responsible for elder neglect since your mother is in your care but you need help as well. Since you are not able to care for your mother or yourself it doesn't appear to be a jail-able offense. To be safe google Volunteer Lawyers Project and contact the one nearest to you.
It shocks me too that all those EMS people could come to your home and then walk away.
Can you google community services in your area to see what kind of help may be available? Not just for a hoard clean out but for ongoing health care. Is your mother seeing a cancer specialist? Can you talk to her doctor about getting help?
Whatever the other *huge secret* is you don't need to talk about it here. If things keep going downhill it's going to come out eventually in real life. It may be better to admit it to someone now before it gets worse.
Do your have family members who could help? What about church groups? Since your neighbors have already called the police could you ask one of them to help? I'm not talking about help you clean out. I'm talking about finding help for you like which groups could intervene. Sometimes even looking things up can be very stressful and exhausting. If you live in an area that is well populated there may be good options.
As a last resort you could google National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. It isn't just for imminent suicide help. They are there to help with the desperate situations of life and may be able to give you numbers or names in your area. At the very least they are professionals who are dedicated to getting people help. The would never laugh or minimize your problems.
I understand your desperation and the slow decline that is so frightening. Don't stop reaching out for help. You can express your emotions here and get support. But for the help you need in real life there will be someone for you and your mother. Don't give up.
Let us know how you are. God bless ~ Dianne
dave
Posted: 06 November 2014 - 09:11 AM
Is the home health service still available as part of your mother's care, and if so, would you be able to have a social worker come again to talk with you about any assistance options that may be available to you in your area?
Are you able to see any service agencies for seniors or disabled in your area that you can discuss your needs with?
Do you have any extended family members who could offer any assistance?
Do you have a church affiliation where you could discuss your situation with the pastor?
Is there a boy scout troop that might be able to provide some help in relation to getting merit badges for the scouts?
Are you affording a weekly trash service? If so, what can you do to get someone to come each week to help you get the trash can filled?
Are there any annual neighborhood or community cleanup days/weeks that you might be able to tie to your cleanup needs in some way? (And if so, what kind of a plan could you develop to get from now to then?)
Elks, masons, rotarians, etc?
Mel99
Posted: 06 November 2014 - 07:25 AM
Also, it seems to me if it was likely that your situation would lead to you being arrested under some definition of elder abuse, they would have done that yesterday. Right? I'm not a legal expert but it certainly seems that way.
Mel99
Posted: 06 November 2014 - 07:23 AM
Gem, I am so very sorry that all that happened/is happening to you. It's really frustrating that the cops and everyone couldn't even give you a referral or suggestion or something to help you. Unfortunately it sounds like they just want you to move the boxes and pick up the mail so they don't have to make another trip out there (I'm guessing the reason they came out is because either the mail carrier or someone else reported that something might have happened to you). And with you both being sick, I really don't know what you're supposed to be able to do. Even if they didn't have anyone they could refer you to, I still think they could have told you that.
For the mail, do you have a car? Could you drive to the bottom of the hill to get the mail? Does anything help your dizzy spells?
I wish I could offer any other ideas or suggestions. When I first came to the board it made me feel so sad and frustrated for people to see all the people who come looking for help who really want to get out of their situation but just don't have the money/resources to do it. It feels like there should be something but I don't know what. I think most people just don't understand how we "let" things get this way and they're more interested in blaming us than helping us. I wish I could do something to help.
Gem
Posted: 06 November 2014 - 02:35 AM
A few weeks ago someone called the police on us and I didn't answer the door when they first came out because I wasn't sure who it was. The 2nd time they came out it wasn't just them, they brought along firemen and paramedics. I answered the door and told them we had a few boxes outside our door that had been delivered because I was too tired to bring them all in when they arrived due to a couple of them being heavy. In with the cops there was one woman one and she yelled to everyone else who were men "Sorry boys!" as in sorry that they all had to come out for nothing.
The policemen at the door kept asking me questions and making me feel awful for having boxes outside the door, the other thing was our mailbox was overflowing because we live on a hill and my Mom is to sick to go out there to the box and all and I have been having awful dizzy spells for awhile and can't go out there either. I don't know if mine is anxiety or what. The cop asked to come in to see if my Mom was ok and alive after I told them she slept in a hospital bed where she was napping. I told them then and there that our house was hoarded and we needed help.
Two of the cops came in to see that my Mom was ok/alive and then turned to leave and go out the door. They got on me some more about the packages and mail to which I replied almost in tears that we needed help so badly. They didn't care and after they were done reaming me out about the mail and etc. they left. I stood in the doorway a couple minutes in shock that all the cops, the 2 fire trucks and the ambulance that had just been there all left without offering to get us any type of assistance or to refer us to anyone who might be able to help at all.
It's so bad in here that stuff keeps falling and I have to pick it all up. My Mom is to sick to help at all and I can't do much of anything without getting extremely tired and dizzy. We have no dining chairs or anything I could sit on while picking stuff up and I don't know what to do anymore.
My Mom will probably have to have major cancer surgery soon because it's spread and she doesn't deserve to have to recover or live like this and honestly neither do I but there is no way I can do it alone. I can't even do it little by little. We're desperate for help but there doesn't seem to be anything out there in this area at all.
A whole lot of stuff fell tonight and my Mom tried to help pick some of it up because I was kind of stuck where I was but I told her to go in her room and I'd pick up the rest because I didn't want her to hurt herself. We can't live like this anymore.
There's another huge secret too but I'm scared to admit what it is because of how bad it is. We need help so bad but I'm scared what that social worker who worked for the home health my Mom said last year about if the Adult Protection Services came out is true that I'd probably go to jail. I'm not well enough mentally or physically for jail. :(
Eva
Posted: 19 July 2014 - 02:15 AM
Hi all!
I'm glad you got your AC fixed Gem. I just got mine repaired today also.
I am new to admitting I am "not normal" so I'm sorry to not have anything helpful to add although I'm posting in your thread.
I've spent the last two weeks trying to clear out space around the AC/furnace and then widening the paths to the back and side walls of the basement so the repair man could have access to the areas he needed to work in. I really disliked having to do it. I had great difficulty letting go of my children's clothes or toys from when they were younger. I realize the sentimental attachment I have to everything that belonged to them is not normal and that I do not lose them or the memories of them by giving these things away. I also tend to feel the need to save things to pass to them/their children in case the find themselves living through economic hardship the way I have for much of my life.
I have been forced to let go of almost all their clothes to make room for this AC situation. It helped that i found a donation place that funds a shelter for abused women and their children. This knowing that my donations helped those in such great need has been instrumental is forcing myself to part with things. Much still remains though as I feel like I've only taken a teacup out of the sea.
I do like to see the areas of extra empty space that has been created. But now that the motivating AC crisis is past i hope I can self motivate and self discipline to keep whittling away at the piles so I can try to turn this problem around ... However slowly... Because intellectually I know how it will end up if I don't .
I want to thank everyone for sharing their stories. It has helped me to know that although I am not normal, at least i am not alone. And if others have bailed themselves out a teacup at a time, then I can too.
Namaste!
Roxie
Posted: 12 July 2014 - 04:06 PM
I'm so glad you came back and updated us, and that you are cool again. I do agree with LR's suggestion that you join the online group and, at the very least, get the encouragement to move forward in any way at all.
LR2014
Posted: 12 July 2014 - 03:50 PM
Gem, I'm so glad to hear back from you, to know that you are OK, and that you got your air conditioning fixed! (Yea!) I had been thinking about you and your situation. Thank you so much for posting this update!!! Join us for the online support group (see button at right) on Sunday nights and Tuesday nights if you have the chance and would like to do so. It's a great opportunity to chat with others of us who have the same issues. It's "cool" to hear that you are cool now!
Gem
Posted: 12 July 2014 - 01:32 PM
Also the AC guy who came said his dad moved into a senior living complex and since he got onto Medicaid/Medicare that a cleaning service comes twice a week and does some cleaning in his home for free twice a week. He didn't know if it had to do with his Dad's insurance or something the senior living complex had set up.
Gem
Posted: 12 July 2014 - 01:22 PM
The guy came and was real nice and didn't even care about the mess since he didn't need to reach the breaker box to do repairs. The bad news concerning the AC was the price of the repair. My Mom and I split the cost between us because in this area you can't go without air and the total would have been the same price as about 3 window units if found on sale. The AC is working better now then it has in a long time then I can remember so it must have been on it's way to conking out for awhile.
During the AC stuff I contacted a couple personal organizers I found on a site that were the nearest to us and only one of them replied and was concerned enough to ask if we had found anyone to repair the AC. After the guy came, the heat exhaustion went away and I could think well enough to word a reply I emailed her back and told her we still needed help with our hoarding situation.
In my reply back to her after I wrote the first time I had explained our financial situation, a situation we have regarding our home that we're going to ongoing hearings for that isn't related to how it looks on the inside or outside and that my Mom has kidney cancer.
I don't think she believed how bad it is or she did and ignored my reply. So I waited a week and a half and wrote again and said that I guess I left her without knowing what to say but that if she knew anyone at all who could help with a more intense situation it would be greatly appreciated.
Her final reply to me was wanting pictures, saying if needed she could bring a 2nd organizer with her but for each of them it would be $225.00 an hour. I never wrote back after that.
Our home is to the point where it would be dangerous if we tried to do much of the cleaning due to our health conditions and how if you try and move to much of the stuff it causes a ripple effect and things tumble and fall.
I just don't know what to do anymore. When my Mom still had home health one of the social workers tried to send the Adult Protective Services out here after he reported me but we never answered the door and they quit trying to come. We never answered the door because the social worker told me the last time he was out that there was a chance I could go to jail because I was the one who was less sick out of the two of us. Since it's just my Mom and me she would have been stuck here alone and she was also scared like I was because neither of us want or wanted me to go to jail.
Sorry this is so very long but I wanted to update, be honest somewhere to someone and just get everything off of my chest. Neither of us can stand living this way any longer.
Dave
Posted: 01 July 2014 - 07:52 AM
Eva, Thank you for posting. It helps the regular posters here to hear voices of others who have related to, and gained help from, their struggles.
Eva
Posted: 01 July 2014 - 12:15 AM
Hi, I'm new!
I can relate to this post because our AC is broke and needs to be replaced also, whole AC-furnace unit. My basement has been the place that I've been storing things for over 20 years. Just the spots he needs to work and access involve daunting de cluttering tasks and I feel I can't get it done fast enough. The difficulty letting go of things has made me consider that I'm beyond messy. I'm not a candidate for the hoarder show yet, but I can't have people over and I'm on that path if I don't turn it around now.
I've been reading a lot here the last few days and it has helped me. Thank you all for sharing.
diane
Posted: 07 June 2014 - 06:38 PM
love my window air conditioner
whew!
Posted: 05 June 2014 - 03:33 PM
Gem,
I see others have spoken, so I guess I will be saying some of the same things....1st--I'm thrilled you called someone. 2nd--in the meantime, yes, most definitely get to a cool place. I grew up in the South, and now live in the Southwest, and hot weather can do bad things fast.
On the emotional level--One of the things I've noticed is the feelings of shame that then lead to the feelings of "I don't deserve..." Well, I think that's part of this hoarding deal. We keep stuff (or at least I do) because of terrible fear and low self-worth and loss. The truth is we do deserve to be safe, healthy and happy, no matter what the conditions of our homes.
So please keep us posted. And please take care.
Barb
Posted: 05 June 2014 - 10:48 AM
Here is the WebMD link for heatstroke. http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/heat-stroke-symptoms-and-treatment I have lived in apartments which had no air conditioning and have suffered heatstroke before. You become disoriented and weak and are not sure what is happening to you. Please take care of yourself. If you think you are suffering from heatstroke, get out of your home and seek help. The important thing is to stay hydrated and put cool or cold cloths on your pulse points: temples, wrists, etc. Fans help, but after a while they just move the hot air around. If the fan still works on the furnace, sometimes running it will help. I wish you all the best and trust you will make the decisions which are best for you.
Roxie
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 10:44 PM
Gem, can you get a window air conditioning unit installed for now? That is what I intend to do as I cannot afford repairs to central ac. Then limit your living to the ac room or rooms until you can do a big repair, after figuring out how to get to the breaker.
Meanwhile, do you have room fans you can run? Spray bottles you can mist yourself regularly with? Drink as much water as you can. If you have sports drinks, get electrolytes into yourself as often as you need or more. Limit your caffeine and alcohol intake.
Take lukewarm or slightly cooler baths or sponge baths. Place cool damp washcloths on your foreheads. Spend as much time as you can in air conditioned places like the library, the mall, the car, movie theaters, etc. Sleep in the coolest part of the evening.
If you can afford, spend a night or two at a motel. Or at a friend or relative's place.
LR2014
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 10:02 PM
Gem, I've been reading your posts. Glad you called them! Keep us posted on how things are going.
Gem
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 09:59 PM
I did earlier. Just hoping all goes ok.
Tillie
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 06:20 PM
Call the AC repair man and have him come out and look at the situation. He should be able to figure it out how it's all wired. If he is not willing to take on the job of getting to whatever he needs to access, ask him if he knows another AC person who might be willing to take on the job. Make the call and ask.
Gem
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 05:38 PM
It's 88 degrees in our home right now even with fans on and we don't have anywhere to go or anyone to help us. I wonder how much work an AC guy could do without getting to the breaker box?
I don't want to die in here. :(
Gem
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 01:54 PM
That's the problem. I think there are more breaker switches that control the AC behind a mass of stuff that we can't move ourselves. There are two breaker switches on the AC unit itself inside the closet thing where it's located in the hall. I'm trying to find out online if those 2 breaker switches control everything but can't fine out.
We literally can't get to the box ourselves and I can't imagine what could happen if we tried to. Getting overheated and hurting ourselves.
This sucks so bad.
Tillie
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 11:26 AM
Repair men have seen just about everything and they really don't care what state the house is in just as long as they can easily get to the areas they need to get into to do the repair work. They earn their living by coming in to people's homes, doing a good job and any good repairman never gossips because that is bad for their business. So, my suggestion is that you clear the areas where the repair man will need access to and call before it gets much hotter. Good luck & best wishes!
Gem
Posted: 04 June 2014 - 11:17 AM
Our AC is acting up and after our encounter with the paramedic I posted about in the Cleanup Help section we're scared to death to call any AC repair places but being we live in the south going without the AC could kill us.
I'm not sure what do to. Anyone have any suggestions?
Here's the link to my previous post for reference.
