I don’t understand people who have a need to beautify the area around their a/c unit.
The AC equipment needs to have lots of fresh air surrounding it. If there is no way for air to get to the AC unit, then it is impossible for it to generate enough conditioned air for cooling your house down; Last month, I had to service an a/c unit. When I got there, there was a fence of flowers planted all around the AC unit. The partner said he just wanted to make it look a little prettier and to hide the nasty-looking AC unit. I tried to explain the process of airflow and how it worked best, and that the substantial flowers were blocking off said airflow. She rolled his eyes at me and told myself and others it was more crucial for his to have sunflowers there and make it look pretty. I advised he put pansies in front, or even marigolds. Any style of flower that would be low to the ground would be much more sufficient than giant flowers, which completely covered the AC unit. She shrugged and told myself and others “to each his own,” and he would like it if I would just service his AC unit. In order to service the AC unit, I had to take down some of his precious sunflowers. I carefully dug them out of the ground and laid them off to the side. She called up my supervisor and told him I was destroying his sunflower bed. She demanded he come out and tell myself and others to stop. When the supervisor got there and saw what he was talking about, he told the woman there was no way I could service his AC equipment with a fence of flowers blocking it off.