Clear the bushes and bins away from the outside AC unit so it can breathe, the public library serving Marfa.

Shrubs, a fence panel, or stored bins have grown or piled up right against this library's outdoor air conditioning unit, choking off the clearance space the manufacturer requires around and above the cabinet and forcing the unit to labor for air it cannot get. This is the largest-scale obstruction in the way of this unit, feet of crowding rather than inches of litter or millimetres of packed fin dust, so it is treated first.

Where

the public library serving Marfa, Marfa, TX 79843 (Presidio County; best-estimate location near the town center, branch name and hours to be confirmed with library staff, exact address not confirmed) · Open the map

Pay

$45 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. You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

before/after clearance photos + measured clearance distance + GPS

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-09-13

Posted by

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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. Confirm with library staff how landscaping and stored items near the building's outdoor AC unit are currently handled, then measure out the manufacturer's typical clearance, about two feet clear on every side of the cabinet and several feet clear above it.
2. Using loppers and hand pruners only, cut back any shrub, vine, or fence-line planting growing into that clearance zone; never power equipment for this step.
3. Move stored bins, firewood, trash cans, or any other stacked item out of the clearance zone to a spot at least the full clearance distance away.
4. Photograph the clearance zone before and after, and measure and record the clear distance on every side of the cabinet.

What counts as done

• Confirmation of library staff permission and coordination on site
• Before photo of the clearance zone crowded with plants or stored items
• After photo of the clearance zone cleared to the manufacturer distance on every side
• Measured clearance distance recorded on every side of the cabinet
• Confirmation that all cutting was done with hand tools only, no power equipment

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.