After a year in a home without air conditioning, we finally had enough savings to afford a home with an HVAC installation.
Of course, it wasn’t a mansion, but enough for our small family, so it wasn’t a problem that the house we had was equipped with a ductless mini-split unit to help with indoor comfort.
We were all relieved, especially since we found the place just before winter hit. I was anxious about maintaining the quality HVAC and keeping up with the air conditioner tune-up. My husband suggested booking the air conditioner service offered by the local indoor comfort business and seeing if it was possible to get a cooling specialist to familiarize us with the unit. It wasn’t a new unit, so we didn’t know whether it was working well, and we had yet to use a digital thermostat. It all felt very intimidating. The cooling corporation did send an a/c worker over to our new home before we moved in to walk us through how everything should work. At first, the a/c professional thought we had an electric heat pump but quickly spotted the unit once we let him in. None of us bothered to ask what the unit he mentioned looked like because we wanted to learn about what we would be dealing with. The technician checked the unit for any issues, and lucky for us, there were none. We learned how to change the units’ air filters and settings on the thermostat. The only thing I didn’t want to learn was how to clean the unit. It was too early to complete a complex task, so we left it out for routine maintenance.