Swap the swamp-cooler pads before summer.

Half of Ukiah's older homes cool with evaporative coolers, and a unit running on last year's crusted pads pushes damp, mineral-laden air and barely cools at all, right as the valley heads into weeks over 100°F. A pad swap and clean before the heat is a cheap visit that makes the difference between a cooled house and a dangerous one.

Where

Invited homes, east Ukiah blocks off Gobbi Street, Ukiah, CA 95482 · 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

Before/after photos of the serviced cooler

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 invitation and photograph the cooler and old pads; work only on ground-level or window units reachable without a roof ladder.
2. Shut off power and water to the unit, then remove and discard the old pads.
3. Flush the reservoir, wipe scale, and check the pump and float move freely.
4. Fit new pads, restore water, and confirm even wetting and airflow.
5. Photograph the new pads and the running unit with date.

What counts as done

• Before photo of old pads with GPS and date
• After photo of new pads installed
• Photo or clip of the unit running with even wetting

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.