Air Conditioning and Windows

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DRT 
  • When I spell AC or look at the AC machine in the living-room - ask me if I am hot or cold. 
  • Important – if AC is on during dinner, open my bedroom door and make sure the window fan is on exhaust to pull cool air in my room.
  • How to turn off my bedroom window fan easy - just hold the mode button until it stops! 
  • My bedroom ceiling fan has 3 speeds. One pull of the black bear (never the birds nest hanging from the bear) is high. Two pulls – medium. Three is low. All above applies when it is totally off
  • When we go out and the AC isn’t on turn it on if the afternoon temperature is expected to be hot.  This applies to Doctor Billica days too. 
The only dial you should touch is the bottom dial:  

AC on instructions:

  • I will tell you when to turn it on, usually in the late morning or afternoon. 
  • Never turn AC on above the 75 degrees mark. 
  • After you turn on close all windows and doors. In my room turn window fan to exhaust. Since I don’t go in your room check window fan. Exhaust? Close both bedroom doors.
  • If floor fans on turn them off, the ceiling fan cools me enough.
AC off instructions:
  • When it is cooler outside than in, to save electricity turn AC off.
  • Open all windows and doors including bedroom doors. 
  • In my room change window fans to intake and set temperature to 65 degrees.
  • I don't like to go into my room in my shower  chair when blind is open so people walking by on the sidewalk might see me! 
  • Before bedtime transfer in living-room . . . Pull down the front living-room blind about one foot so that room doesn’t get stuffy during the night.
  • One of the last things that my CNA does before she turns out the bedroom light is ask me what temperature I would like my window fan to be set to and I prefer the speed to be low. 
  • Put the window blind to the bottom of the upper fan. 

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