How to remove air conditioners?

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Re: How to remove air conditioners?

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First thing you need to do is turn off the power. Then you open the lid and disconnect the wires. That's halfway through the job already. Then you disconnect the gas line. Wrench or even pliers will do. The next thing is to remove the inside unit. It is usually hung on screws or bolts in the wall. You just lift it off. Outside unit is sort of easy too if it is ground-level. Disconnect the wires and the gas line and then get it off the hooks or bolts in the ground. Re-gassing, if needed, is usually $15. If your landlord is on the same power lines he will know right away what you are doing, though. If this sounds too hard for you to do yourself, get a technician. You might say he is fixing something while the power is off.
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Re: How to remove air conditioners?

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Cheers RB - the YouTube clips also show how to return the gas to the cylinder in the base unit to remove the need for regas. The landlord's family will know immediately what's going on, but then they'd also spot the removalist truck and have a fair guess. We're paid up to the end of the month, so it shouldn't be their business - but Cambodia.
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Re: How to remove air conditioners?

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StroppyChops wrote:Cheers RB - the YouTube clips also show how to return the gas to the cylinder in the base unit to remove the need for regas. The landlord's family will know immediately what's going on, but then they'd also spot the removalist truck and have a fair guess. We're paid up to the end of the month, so it shouldn't be their business - but Cambodia.
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Re: How to remove air conditioners?

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juansweetpotato wrote:
StroppyChops wrote:Cheers RB - the YouTube clips also show how to return the gas to the cylinder in the base unit to remove the need for regas. The landlord's family will know immediately what's going on, but then they'd also spot the removalist truck and have a fair guess. We're paid up to the end of the month, so it shouldn't be their business - but Cambodia.
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Heh heh heh! That's the one.

I had our assistant call today to advise we were starting to move out tomorrow as the removal truck will be an obvious giveaway, but that we'll be leaving some stuff here until the end of the month and having a security guy sleep here. Decided to leave the a/c plumbing for the landlord as removing it would just be bloody-minded on my part, and end up costing money to repair the walls back to original.

It also turns out the local a/c guy will remove units for $5 a pop, reinstall them for $10 a pop (I know, standard price) plus materials, and remove, reinstall, and clean and service them for $25 a unit. He's coming to rip out the units while the removalists are here, so we might just make it without any drama.

It's like a bloody soap opera, living here!
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Re: How to remove air conditioners?

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Take the copper tubing with you also. It's expensive.

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Or you could just tell the local sangkat your heard him saying Rainsy is God.
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Re: How to remove air conditioners?

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vladimir wrote:Take the copper tubing with you also. It's expensive.
I'm tempted - there's one run that's about 10 metres and it will be hard to leave it behind, but the drama of taking it down on the day we're moving is too great. It's in the high corner of the front room of a standard pteah l'veang.
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Re: How to remove air conditioners?

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Crimp it with pliers in .5m lengths or cut it 1m from the unit. Tee-hee.

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