Swap the evaporative cooler pads.

Plenty of older La Puente and Valinda-edge homes still cool with rooftop or window evaporative coolers, and clogged mineral-crusted pads make them blow warm, damp air through the hottest weeks. Fresh pads and a basin clean restore real cooling for a fraction of an AC bill.

Where

Occupant-invited homes with window/ground evaporative coolers, La Puente, CA 91744 · Open the map

Pay

$180 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

Old-pad, cleaned-basin, and running-unit photos

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

entry

Open until

2026-10-19

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Power off the cooler with the occupant and confirm it is reachable without a ladder above six feet, window and ground-mount units only.
2. Open the panels, remove the crusted pads, and clean scale and sediment from the basin.
3. Fit new pads cut to size and reseat the panels.
4. Restore power and water, run the cooler, and verify cool airflow and no leaks.
5. Photograph the old pads, the cleaned basin, and the running unit with date and GPS.

What counts as done

• Photo of the removed crusted pads
• Photo of the cleaned basin with new pads
• GPS-tagged photo of the running unit with date

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Energy Efficiency Audit. Energy efficiency work begins with the walkthrough audit, the kind the ASHRAE standard describes: a trained eye moving through a building, reading the bills, the walls, the lights, and the equipment, and coming out with the short list of fixes worth doing first. Mastery looks like an auditor who can feel where a building is bleeding money within the hour, and prove it on paper. That instinct is trained by repetition on real buildings. This packet is one repetition: one system observed, one reading taken, one finding recorded the way the standard asks.