The director in a hairnet, the nurses, and the sweet old lady. A certain “cooler” broke down. The local engineer, looking all businesslike, says, “Oil has leaked.” Sure… if half a liter of oil is spilled around the compressor pipes, then that’s what it is. Not oil, but refrigerant. Anyway, Continue Reading

The heat pump that heats the water for the pool broke down. Well, it didn’t just break down—it started not only cooling the surrounding air to heat the pool water but also freezing up. Clearly, there was not enough refrigerant. We arrived. An expensive suburb. Beautiful houses. The house that Continue Reading

A heat pump that heats water in a boiler. It was installed in the “boiler room.” The boiler room is a passageway between the living and business parts of the house. In other words, it is heated. What’s the point of cooling the house to heat water? Ideally, this unit Continue Reading

At McDonald’s, the toasters are half a square meter in size. Adult toasters. They break down. Yes. They are fixed with WD-40 and some other stuff. A couple of times, we searched the kitchen floor for a small spring that unexpectedly fell out. Before starting work at McDonald’s, we had Continue Reading

The air conditioner in the office broke down. The compressor won’t start. It turned out that the capacitor failed, and it took something else with it to the grave. We noted down the spare parts — we’ll be back. In the registration log at the office center’s entrance, there’s a Continue Reading

— You have a big, new, red Jaguar and you’re 75 years old? I guess I understand you.— The size and significance of a city can be measured not in millions of residents, but in McDonald’s. For example, a city with 3 McDonald’s.— Fire, water, and copper pipes are nothing Continue Reading

The ice cream machine broke down. No, it just had the sense to realize that it hadn’t been cleaned in two weeks. They removed the panel, shorted a contact that no one knew about, and everything started working again. And they cleaned it, too. How does it understand? The temperature Continue Reading

The roof looks like a red hat. Inside the hat, all sorts of junk is hidden, like the outdoor units. It’s a powerful system with two installations working in parallel. One of them has a broken compressor, and in the other, the refrigerant has somehow escaped. We searched for a Continue Reading

Facade with 9 windows, garage for 2 cars, X5 in the yard, 20 acres, owner is 190 cm tall, wearing glasses and a pullover, lawn, hedge, pool. The pool heat pump isn’t working. What’s wrong? Who knows. We opened it up… Semen Semenych… the power switch broke and came off Continue Reading

To keep the strawberries clean and make harvesting easier, they can be planted in trays suspended at shoulder height.