(SECURITY-WIDEFIELD, Colo) — A homeowner in the Security-Widefield area was the beneficiary of a generous gift, which ended an unexpected heat wave he and his family have felt for over a week.
“Ten days ago, my A/C just stopped working,” said Edward Williams, the homeowner with the bad A/C unit.
But a bad A/C is just another bump in a rough road Williams has traveled in recent years.
“Almost five years ago now, I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure brought on by sleep apnea, and it turned my world upside down,” Williams said.
These days, Williams says he struggles breathing while doing simple everyday tasks like walking into the grocery store. Since he can’t work because of his condition, the bills have piled up because the paychecks haven’t been keeping up.
“I had some credit card bills I’ve had to face up to and deal with,” Williams said.
When the A/C stopped working, technicians from Around The Clock stopped by to take a look at the problem. The diagnosis was that Williams’s 23-year-old A/C unit needed to be replaced. So, on Friday, July 11th, a crew stopped by to put in a brand-new unit, which can cost anywhere from $6,500 to $9,000. For Williams, it did not cost him a thing.
“An unreal feeling, I couldn’t believe it,” Williams said.
Shane Noblet, a Service Manager at Around The Clock, was the one who visited the home to find the problem and began the process of making sure Williams did not have to pay for his A/C unit out of his pocket.
“After talking with him and kind of hearing his whole story, I felt like it was kind of my, you know, duty to try to do what I could for him,” Noblet said.
But Williams did not just get an A/C unit by itself.
“We were able to do a furnace and air conditioning system and an indoor air quality package because he is on oxygen,” Noblet said. “So, we wanted to kind of take care of his air as well. We were able to do an electrostatic filter and a UV light for him.”
To put all of those features in, it would cost any other customer a pretty penny, as Noblet says the whole cost to get what Williams received ranges from $15,000 to $18,000.
Williams, who is thankful for the generosity, says he is just glad he has working A/C and will be able to sleep in a cool home once again.
“I’ll lay my head on my pillow tonight and it will be nice and cool,” Williams said.
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