Air Con

I'm not sure if we have mentioned it much here, but our friends here definitely have heard enough of our whining about our noisy Air Con in the living room. We blogged about it back in August here, and not long after then, the fan unit started making a horrific noise, as if a Spitfire was taking off from our balcony (which as fans of Gormsby will know, does not just put-put around).
When it first made the noise we took the lid off and had a look around to see if there was anything obviously wrong with it that we could fix. Our technical abilities didn't really stretch to AC at that point, so we tucked a piece of paper between the unit and the lid, so that they didn't hit each other when the fan went around.
This "piece of paper" trick worked well, but had to be modified about once a fortnight. At one point though, the Spitfire was taking off when our Bowab, Abdul, was round and he got stuck in too. He got out a tool kit and proceeded to kick the side of the unit so that it stayed in place away from the lid. Again, this worked for a while, but once we hit November there was no need to use it anymore, so we forgot about the problem.
Since the end of January though, things have started warming up, and so we knew we had to do something about the unit. Last month when Tamir came to collect the rent we mentioned the problem and turned the unit on to show him. Tamir said he would contact the people who installed it to come around and take a look - and hence our post today.
We were a bit worried before he came around to look at the AC, because of all the kicking and bashing of the unit that has taken place over the last six months by us amateurs. But it was somewhat reassuring then, when the AC man proceeded to get out a large chisel and hammer and hit the side of the unit to bend it out of shape!!
After this technical bashing, he did then clean our filters and check the unit over. We've tried it just now and it seems that thankfully, finally, all planes have been grounded (we have got his number though just in case!) All for 50LE