It’s another “Spiderman” day.  I received a call yesterday from Lisa, our real estate liason/agent.  She told me our landlord had completed the purchase of a new air-conditioner for our bedroom, and wanted to have it installed today.  The “sooner the better” I said, so they’re coming sometime later today.  We’ve had problems with that particular air-conditioner since we moved in, and we’re finally going to get it fixed.

The installation crew, a manager, and the unit all arrive at the same time, around 11:30am.  They start looking around for the access panel to take the old one out, and Lilly and I get to explain there is no access panel.  They start looking out the window, and we can see this is not a crew that will work out on a ledge.  Eventually, Lilly, Lisa, the manager guy, and I work out that the UHN “spiderman” will take a look at it.  He’s the guy who’s charged it with coolant a couple of times before.  He shows up, and let’s us all know that he can install it.  He’ll come back around 4:00 with a helper, and get it done (it’s 1:00 pm when this all gets solved.)  The manager leaves, Lilly goes back to work, and I head over for a swim.

The installer and the manager show up shortly after 4:00 and the work starts.  My curiosity is pretty high, since I wouldn’t even crawl out on that ledge, much less try to maneuver a heavy air-conditioner.  He’s got it figured out, though.  He manages to get it pulled out, and slides it along the ledge with help from his helper.  They lift it up through the window.  Then he spends time prepping the new unit, and moves back to window, reversing the process.  They lift it out the window after tying ropes on it, then slide it over to it’s destination.  I don’t know how he lifted it up while hanging on that ledge.  It was too crowded around the window for me to get a view.

Here’s a link to a video.  Notice that “spiderman isn’t tied to anything but the air-conditioner.  If it goes, he goes!

 https://www.dropbox.com/s/t8z5lr1yotpax3i/AC%20Installation.mp4

He eventually completed the outside work, and came inside to finish up the indoor part of the installation.  After some drilling, hammering, measuring, and all the other things that go along with replacements like this, I get the message that he’ll be back in an hour with a part he needs to finish.  It’s six o’clock, so we’ll look for him around 7:00.  You can guess!  No one shows up.  Finally, Judy and I give up around 9:00pm.  We put our bedroom back together so we can sleep, and shut it down for the day.  I guess I’m going to be tied to the apartment for another day, or at least until he gets back.  If I don’t stay on this, it could take a week before we get it finished.  I hope he hasn’t forgotten about us.