Air Conditioner

That price is high unless you are paying for labor also, but I am pretty sure this is the first one I have heard of going out.

An internet search should find you a "Polar Cub", which is what I would go with if I needed to, for under $625 complete (inside and outside parts).

I had my A/C "repaired" under warranty - it was freezing up.  I assume it was low on refrigerant and they simply recharged it, although I never did ask what specifically was wrong.  Its been fine for the past three years.

BTW, if you need to, in the future, mess with it again.. they are stupid simple to replace. If you can put a window a/c in a house, you can do one of these. They all fit the same size hole. There is some caulking to be done, and of course the elctrical hook up,but I reckon a handy guy could do it in under an hour, first time. Took two on the 'stream, but I was scared of the "roof"..

Definitely not safe getting up there on a 6 foot ladder, but I wised up this year and used my back porch as a work platform.  I posted photos a month or so ago somewhere around here.

When I replaced the start capacitor on my A/C, I just used a tall step ladder beside the r-pod and stood on the ladder/laid my weight on the roof's edge so that the vertical studs in the wall were bearing most my weight.  It was a close enough reach to unscrew the shroud (had to move the ladder to the other side to get the other screws), zip-tie in the new capacitor and move the connectors.  I left the old start capacitor in-place because there was plenty of room for both and I figured why not leave a spare?