One of the worst times of the year to have a problem with the air conditioner is of course during the summer months.
I was working at a museum last summer in the department that restores old paintings.
I went to college to earn a degree in art history and restoration. I got the job at the Museum a couple of months before the summer heat started. I was working on a painting from the 1850s, when I started to feel warm. I didn’t feel the air conditioner running above me, so I stopped working on the painting and I got up from my desk to change the temperature on the thermostat. When I realized that the thermostat should have been running, I contacted the maintenance department. I told the supervisor that we were having some indoor temperature problems. The paintings were already starting to melt and it was about 80 degrees in the restoration room. The maintenance supervisor came upstairs as quickly as possible. The guy performed a couple of tests on the AC, and then he told me that I should move the paintings to a different room. He did not believe I was going to be able to continue working on the project anymore that day. I moved everything to the next room and the AC was working fine in there. I spent all day working on the paintings in a different room. The next day, the problem with the AC still wasn’t fixed. I’m thankful we moved everything that day, because 24 hours without climate control would have damaged the paintings a great deal.