The Great Air Conditioner Installation of 2009

Today, I went over to Karen's place after work. She extended the invitation to me with a purpose - to do her a favour; to help her install her air conditioner. In return, Karen promised to make fajitas for supper. I got to her place at a quarter past five and we immediately got down to business. Karen cleared the area near her window of miscellaneous boxes and bags.

We got the air conditioning unit out of her storage space and brought it into her room (the addition of a storage shelf has greatly improved the organization of things in there). I was somewhat already practiced in this manoeuver as last year, I moved her air conditioning unit from her room into the storage space. Basically the same thing, but in reverse.

The next step was to lift the unit and to place it securely in the window, ideally without having it pass through the opening in the window and falling onto the ground below. Karen assured me that this wouldn't happen, but usually anything is possible when I'm involved in a project. But as so often is the case, Karen was right, and the task was accomplished without incident, unless you consider my back going out as an incident.

The tough part of the job was done and all that was left was to secure the unit in the window. Karen's process involved the use of pieces of cardboard to cover the exposed parts of the window on each side of the unit and duck tape to secure the cardboard. A job well done, even though the finished product might not be worthy of the approval of the 'Holmes on Homes' guy.