Air conditioning repair companies Midlothian, IL. Start with the right question when you call an air conditioning repair company in Midlothian, IL. First question should be how much is your service diagnostic fee? Next question should be are you accredited and licensed? Next question should be what forms of payments do you except? If an […]
By Robert Hughes July 20, 2012 We sit, my wife and I, huddled in a circle about 6 feet in diameter facing our little robot friend, our free-standing, 3-foot-tall air conditioner. Like a cave couple around a fire, we stare at and listen to our temperamental unit. We pretend to watch a rerun of “Law […]
When temperatures topped 100 earlier this month, [Tsilya Nemanova, 90] Uptown apartment reached 90 degrees, she said. The building’s aging central air conditioning system simply can’t keep up, she said. “I couldn’t walk because of the hot air,” Nemanova said. “It was very, very hot.” She bought a portable cooler which she placed in her […]
Scott DiSavino Reuters 2:47 p.m. CDT, July 17, 2012 NEW YORK (Reuters) – Demand for electricity in the Midwest power grid is expected to break the region’s record later on Tuesday, as homes and businesses crank up air conditioners to escape a brutal heat wave, a spokeswoman for the network operator said. The hot weather […]
Jessica D’Onofrioore July 17, 2012 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — The weather is especially rough for residents at a North Side condo waking up with no air conditioning. Some of the residents here are thinking of staying elsewhere with the intense heat on the way. The problems at 4343 North Clarendon started Monday night. It is a […]
Air conditioning verses the extreme heat of late. Has your central air conditioning system seem to not work as well as you would like when the heat is above 95 degrees out? Who wins, the extreme heat with out door temps above 95 or your central air conditioning system? Both, neither. I bet you didn’t know that […]
BY CHUCK FIELDMAN cfieldman@pioneerlocal.com July 10, 2012 11:39AM Updated: July 12, 2012 3:28AM OAK BROOK — Tom Sewick has a very simple explanation as to why he doesn’t remember anyone complaining too much about extremely hot summer temperatures many years ago, when nobody had air-conditioning in their homes. “Well, there really isn’t much to remember […]
By Brian Hudson, bhudson@mysuburbanlife.com Suburban Life Publications Posted Jul 10, 2012 @ 01:53 PM Downers Grove, IL Last week’s surge in temperatures also meant a surge on the power grid, though not quite to record levels. Between July 4 and July 6 — when temperatures soared into the triple digits each day and simmered in […]
They were expecting their air conditioners to cool them off. Instead, they started a fire. Although fire departments do not specifically track such incidents, Palm Beach County firefighters have already extinguished at least three such blazes in the last six months, said Cpt. Doug McGlynn of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The culprit in each case was a leaking air […]
Cook County authorities investigating to see if 6 others died from heat-related stress By Dawn Rhodes, Carlos Sadovi and Jennifer Delgado, Chicago Tribune reporters July 8, 2012 Cool air gushed into the Chicago area Saturday evening, but not before several days of suffocating temperatures claimed the lives of 10 people who fell victim to heat […]