My son had been playing outside for about an hour, but I wsn’t sure what he was doing.
I thought my oldest daughter was watching him since we lived by the ocean.
He was used to him playing in the sand, but I saw him head to the water. He had buckets of water he brought back which I thought he was using to make a sand castle. I walked outside and my daughter was busy with her friends, but my son was pouring the salt water in the air conditioning unit. He told me he was washing it because it a lot of sand on it. I knew salt water was a corrosive, but I wasn’t sure if the air conditioning unit could handle the salt water being poured directly into it. I yelled at my daughter and told her friends to go home. I then sent her and her brother inside. I told her how her brother had been dumping salt water in the air conditioning unit, and if it was broken, she was going to pay for a new AC unit. All I heard was that it wasn’t fair, as she marched to her bedroom. My son was crying because he didn’t realize he was doing anything wrong. I was calling the HVAC company to make sure nothing was wrong with the ac unit. The HVAC technician said that most air conditioning units in this area had enclosed components because of the salt in the air and water. Salt was a corrosive, but the air conditioning unit should be okay. I didn’t tell my daughter what I said, because I wanted her to worry.