Author: Rich

Got my furnace tuned up just in time

Yesterday I got my furnace tuned up just in time. The winter months were right around the corner and all the heating and AC businesses were booked up with people all trying to get in their fall Heating and cooling tune ups. Everybody’s having their heating systems tuned up because nobody wants to take the […]

Using my electric oven as a temporary heating unit

The heating unit went out in my apartment at least a month ago, possibly longer. At first, I wasn’t too concerned because it was not winter yet, and the fall weather was still fairly warm. Not only that, but there were a lot of repairs that were going to be done at my home, and […]

Wall air conditioner was leaking

I had never seen an air conditioning system leak before. I didn’t even know that that was possible, until I came home and saw my wall HVAC unit leaking. The water was running down my wall and then it was soaking into my carpet. I stepped on the carpet and it made a gross squishy […]

My space heater was working overtime.

We use the backroom as a spare bedroom and my office. There is very little heat that gets to that part of the house, so we use a space heater during the winter. We had an oil filled space heater with a full thermostat, and safety features, but after five years, its memory settings were […]

Are you sure this is how you service an AC unit?

Anyone who knows my husband, and I or has talked to us, knows I don’t want him working on my HVAC system. He always does something that leads to us calling the HVAC company. Last year, he was supposed to do a simple air filter changed, which is my job but I was sick. He […]

I was having trouble with my furnace.

When the HVAC technician was at the house, he told us there were some problems with the furnace. He was fairly certain it would last us this year, but we had to have a new furnace before the following winter. My husband thanked him for being frank and asked him what we should watch for. […]

Father always knows best for HVAC.

My father always knows best for HVAC. When I bought my house, I didn’t go to the local HVAC company to have the HVAC system inspected. I went to my father. Even though my father is no longer a certain HVAC technician, he is still an HVAC technician. He retired about three years and my […]