My issue, we got LG ac. Since we live in top floor, the guy couldn’t close the hole from outside, so he closed it from inside with pop or white cement, I don’t know exactly, but it was lg provided one.
But still sometimes when heavy rain occurs, I could see drops, not sure if they are from ac itself or from the hole due to pop weakening with rain. There is no ledge on top of the hole, it is fully exposed.
That’s why I was thinking, maybe foam thing?
If you want to fill the outside hole, go ahead.
Spray a regular amount. It will expand like a loaf of bread. It may stick out from the wall and look odd, but that’s okay. It will harden in a few days. You can then use a blade to chisel off any excess and make it flush with the wall.
There is no way to even grasp that hole unless a professional can be called who can use their equipment or ropes to reach the area easily (like the one painters do).
What about filling from inside? just those tiny gaps?
Yeah. you can do it, too. Use that long nozzle you get with the bottle to spray deep inside the hole. I have done the exact same thing with my AC.
The foam is fantastic for this purpose, as it’s extremely sticky and does fill all kinds of cracks and crevices with ease.
However, it’ll make the job of AC pipe removal a lot harder if you are planning to do it in the future.
Damn, I live in a rented house and might leave this flat in future.
Then just don’t.
Or,
If I were you, I’d sell the AC (considering you bought it) back to the owner. Dismantling and reinstallation at a new place is an expensive process.
Owner won’t buy.
How much expensive? I bought ac at starting of the year only. Want to keep it with me as long as it works.
I can’t say. It depends upon the complexity of the work. Usually it gets expensive for apartment buildings. You could be looking at 4 to 10k minimum.
Others might be able to give you a better estimate.
Secondly, when you think of moving out, you may find the contemporary ACs are just better at cooling and efficiency. You may not want to stick with your current option.
Backstory:
I’ve recently learned the dangerous/expensive way that the wiring in my parent’s house isn’t done properly — the wires are far too thin for the loads that they’re expected to carry.
Here you can see the electrician/builder daisy chained two 16A sockets with a yellow wire that’s ridiculously under-spec. And these two 16A sockets are further connected to another two 16A sockets in another switch box.
Basically a single 2.5 sq mm wire supplies power to four 16A sockets. In all my life, I’ve never wished ill upon anyone until this moment, and I will continue to curse whoever is responsible for this unforgivable insanity.
The proper way to fix it is to redo the internal wiring with suitably rated wire but that’s an expense and time sink that I cannot commit to anytime soon.
So I got one of these a few days ago to put up some electrical conduit, bypassing the internal wiring:
It’s a gunpowder powered nail gun, it didn’t come with instructions so I watched a couple of short videos and tried it out. Seemed easy enough: point, press and boom, you’ve put a nail in the wall in less than a second.
Except it was a literal boom.
Three days later, I’m still deaf in one ear the other one has high pitched ringing. I’ve had tinnitus since covid but this is far more amplified. I get a little relief by rubbing zandu balm in my ear, it’s soothing.
Be sure to use ear protection if you’re tempted to try this out. Or just do it the old-fashioned way, with a hammer drill.
Try IBO in Secunderabad, I’ve been buying supplies and tools there — I like spending time there.
Reminds me a little of the stores in the west.
Haha, I saw video of this tool. Produces a loud bang.
Your power bill will also increase due to this. If wire is getting hot, extra power loss is happening.
In my area the electricity meters were installed inside houses 30 years back. Due to some new rule, they relocated the meters of all the houses to the nearby poles.
Earlier the meter counted power from the inside exactly where our house begins, now they are installed outside 50 meters away, now we also have to pay for the power loss that happens in that 50 meter of wire from the pole to our house.
If the wire is not thick enough it gets hot, resistance increases, overtime it adds up.
Something I’ve heard from Adam Savage, buy a cheap version of a tool and use it until it breaks. If you never use it again, you’ve saved yourself some money. If you use it enough that it breaks, buy a good one at that point.
I don’t know if I agree with it, but I have both cheap and branded hand and power tools and they both work for the DIY projects I do with them. Sanders, drills, screw drivers, drill press, chop saw, multitools, angle grinders, blowers, etc. I haven’t broken any of them yet.
Maybe that advice is more for those who use their tools regularly instead of intermittently.
Yep, I was not able to account for 5k in my power bill in recent months.
For all my home needs like split AC repair, cleaning and Commode cleaning, repairs and wash basin repairs and Gas stove repairs I use urban clap.
For my PC cleaning and reassembling I call using just my dial.
So there are people who clean pc on just dial?
Yes I don’t want to take chances as two times I broke the GPU lever and one time broke the RAM lever.
What! We could get something like this in India? That too online? wow. I could have never guessed it.
How long before someone turns those ballistic nails into bullets?
I used the exact same service last december. My case was extremely easy, though. Reinstallation is more expensive than uninstallation.
Here uninstalling and reinstalling with jet service costs 2500-3000.
Ones who use tools regularly know the limits and I also have branded as well as run of the mill chinese stuff as tools . SO an experienced guy can work with any sort of tool , but I personally prefer tools which last and are safe .
In experienced guys can break tools and sometimes it is not so safe . Like an angle grinder which spins around 14k rpm . If the blade gets broken it can cause a lot of damage .
The wire while being underspec , the distance is short between the 2 connections . The issue is with the contacts at the terminals where the wire cannot be tightened since they are multistrand .
One way is to use a single strand copper wire with 4 sq.mm or use multi strand with copper lugs and crimps . The lugs can be tightened properly and the rated current can pass through with least resistance .
