Swap the swamp-cooler pads.

Many older homes in Toppenish cool with evaporative (swamp) coolers, and a cooler running on crusted, mineral-clogged pads barely cools while wasting water and power. Fresh pads before the first heat wave are a cheap, huge comfort difference for a household on a tight budget.

Where

Invited homes with ground-reachable coolers, Toppenish, WA 98948 · Open the map

Pay

$192 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

before/after pad photos plus the cooler running

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

Level

entry

Open until

2026-09-19

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. Confirm the host's invitation and switch off and unplug the cooler before opening it.
2. Remove the old pads and scrape loose scale from the pad frames.
3. Fit new pads cut to size, reseat the frames, and check the water lines and float for leaks.
4. Run the cooler on pump-only, confirm even pad wetting, then run the fan and confirm cool airflow.
5. Photograph the old pads, the new pads installed, and the running cooler, GPS-tagged and dated.

What counts as done

• Photo of the removed old pads
• Photo of new pads seated in the frames
• Photo of the cooler running with airflow confirmed
• GPS coordinates and 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.