Since the global pandemic began about two years back, I have been working from home. I find that I am more comfortable therefore I become productive at work. With working from home, the responsibility of creating a comfortable and conducive work environment is left to you and not to the HR as typical. There are a few changes I made to my house to promote comfortability. One of the major things was to replace my aged heat pump with a new mini split air conditioner. This system has saved me a whole lot when it comes to energy bills. The new contractor also switched out my dial temperature control with a state-of-the-art Wifi thermostat. Going into summer, the cooling expert had recommended I upgrade to a new air conditioning hence the new unit. At first, all was well for some time. I had not called back the cooling specialist since the installation of the new system. I was happy with the indoor comfort it provided and so did not see any need for a check-up. I disregarded advice from one of the technicians from the HVAC business downtown about regularly servicing the system. Over the past week, I have noticed a lot of dust on my surfaces. The indoor air quality also felt compromised. I had to give in and call a technician to have a look at the system. It turns out that the system only needed some tender loving care after a long time of negligence. The technician ran a full air conditioner tune-up which included cleaning the HVAC ducts and reinforcing the duct sealing to keep the cool air in. The zone control also functioned better for the rooms with uneven temperatures.
indoor air quality
I found my old heater
Today I made a discovery in my house.
I was going through some old memorabilia that had been stored away in the Attic forever.
Old pictures of me as a kid my parents, and just different things I’ve done throughout my life. All these items I had stored away and long since forgotten about I was now looking out with new eyes. Seeing those images was almost like being back there for a moment. It gave me a great sense of nostalgia. Why I was fumbling through the box I found something else that I wasn’t expecting to find. My old space heater! When I was in high school I had a space heater that I would use to keep my bedroom warm. My parents and I lived in a cold area so it was important that we had a good source of warmth and even though we had a furnace that was responsible for a central heating system, I like having a space heater in my room as a backup. It made an excellent little backup and I really liked having it. When I had moved out of my own and I had my own heating and cooling system I’d completely forgotten all about it. I guess I just showed it in all these boxes and forgotten that it existed but now that I found it again I wanted to see if it still worked. I grabbed the space heater in my hands, curious as ever and plugged it into the wall. To my shock it did come on! As old as it was I would think it would no longer work, especially with the sitting so long but no pair it was still running. As great as it was still working. I didn’t want to use it, it was kind of special and nostalgic, and reminded me of simpler times and I didn’t want to use it and burn it out. So I put it back in my closet.
Heating tune up
I needed to secure my heating and cooling unit
Today I installed a metal cage around my HVAC unit.
It was a day I hope it’s never seen come and it was something I did not want to do but it was necessary.
There have been reports in my area of many people having their heating and AC units completely destroyed because of some thieves that would come and destroy them for the copper fillings. At first it started in the neighborhood a few miles from me. I didn’t think it would ever come here. However I grew more concerned as reports grew closer and closer to my area. Then it happens, the first report of it happened in my neighborhood. My neighbor that’s only two streets down had her a text doesn’t completely destroyed. Now that I knew that they were here I knew that I had to do something to prevent them from destroying my heating and cooling system. So not only did I lock a cage around it, but I also got security cameras and place them around my house. That should deter them if that doesn’t deter them then maybe when I want 100 lb in German Shepherd will. He’s a total sweetheart but sounds like a crazy guard dog if you don’t know him, but I don’t want them to know that. This neighborhood used to be one of the safest areas I knew and now it has changed for the worst. It’s crazy that I have to worry about my heating and AC system. I can’t even enjoy my own HVAC unit that I have worked hard for all because some people want some fillings. It’s a sad day.
The mobile HVAC was the only way I could get service
One of the things I love about living in a rural area is all the peace and quiet you can get but living in a rural area comes with this downsides as much as it’s upsides.
One of the downsides of living in a cool areas that I have a hard time accessing many businesses that aren’t here locally in town.
One of those businesses is a local heating and AC business. When I go and have my HVAC unit serviced I have course always do it with a heating and AC business. My husband tells me that he could always try to fix himself but I don’t want allow him to do that. It’s just too dangerous and I don’t want him to risk hurting himself. I really thought that we were doomed to either go without HVAC tune-ups, or pay a ridiculous amount of money to have another heating and AC business from another town come all the way out here. But all that changed when I did a little bit of research, I found that there was a such thing as mobile HVAC businesses. Companies that come to you instead of you coming to them, so I made an appointment with one and was able to get them to come all the way out here and service my heating AC system. I’m glad that I found them because this was the perfect solution for me. Every time I need something done to my heating and AC system I will just continue to contact the mobile HVAC company and have them take care of it for me.
Different opinions from the cooling professionals
When we don’t know something about our heating and cooling system, normally turn to the HVAC professionals to give us all the answers we need. After all, they are a professionals who went to school to learn how to do what they do. But what do you do if you’re getting two different opinions from two different HVAC technicians? That was exactly the predicament I was in I had my normal Heating and cooling business that I had been going to for several years now. However I was forced to use a new company after I found out that unfortunately my favorite AC business was going to be closing down due to the lack of money. They just simply weren’t making enough business, and there was too much other competition. I saw my HVAC technician that I’ve been using for a couple years one last time, and he told me that my heating and AC system was good to go but would probably do good with a air filter change. For 6 months I scheduled an appointment with another heating and AC business, a different one, and the heating and cooling guy that came out this time was equally friendly but he told me that the internal parts were starting to become worn to be replaced soon. I called my other HVAC technician about this and he told me that they look fine. So now I don’t know what to believe because I have two different attract technicians telling me two different things. I think I’ll go with an additional third a check company to get an additional opinion.
The flier lead me to a new HVAC business
So I pulled up their website on my phone and I thought they had a window AC system that I’ve been wanting for a while that was currently on sale
In this digitized age that we live in I feel like it isn’t too common that we see paper advertisements anymore. So I always get a little bit excited when I see a few paper ads pinned up on a bulletin board. I was visiting the grocery store last week picking up some, well groceries, for myself and for the kids when as I was going through the checkout I noticed a bulletin board across the wall. I went over to the bulletin board just out of curiosity because it had been so long since I’ve seen one and looked at all the paper advertisements that were pinned up. None of them had anything that I was particularly interested in, except for one. The one that I was interested in wasn’t advertisement for a new heating and AC business that had came to town. I was unaware that we even had a new Heating and cooling company. I live in a pretty big city and so we have a new businesses sprout up all the time. The number has ever changing as some new ones come in and some old ones close down. Because they were brand new they were offering a nice sale on a lot of other products and I decided it would be a good idea to check them out. If I can get a good deal I will do so. So I pulled up their website on my phone and I thought they had a window AC system that I’ve been wanting for a while that was currently on sale. So I finished packing up the groceries into the back of the car, typed in the navigation the address of the HVAC company and headed over there. I made up my mind and in just a few minutes I was going to go ahead and buy that window AC system.
My husband wants to move into an energy efficient home
My husband told me that he really wants to move into a more energy efficient home than the one that we are living in now.
I can’t really say that I blame him either.
Our heating and cooling bills have been really high ever since we moved into this house a couple of years ago. At first, I thought we were just using the air conditioning in the heating way more than we should have been. However, that has not really been the case. It’s more that the Insulation and the old HVAC system in this house are really not up to speed. We did some investigating and we ended up having a certified HVAC technician come over to the house to check out the HVAC system for us. He told us that the whole thing really needs to be replaced, but we don’t really like this household that much anyway. We have decided that instead of spending a whole lot of money on replacing the HVAC system, we are just going to look for a completely new house instead. I know that sounds like it’s a bit of a drastic decision, but we have been thinking about moving anyway because we don’t like the house or the area that we are living in. And when you add in a crappy old HVAC system to that, you end up with a recipe for disaster and us just moving away completely! I hope that we can find a new house with a high efficiency heating and cooling system so that we can save a lot of money on our heating and cooling bills in the future.
The HVAC technician who came to my house is super handsome
He was very professional, and he got my air conditioning system back up and running in no time at all
I know that this sounds a little bit crazy, but the HVAC technician who came to my house the other day is a super handsome guy. As soon as I saw him jump out of the HVAC maintenance truck, I could not believe my eyes. He looked like he was stepping off of a movie theater screen or something instead of getting out of an HVAC truck. It might sound like I am exaggerating a little bit, but I can assure you that I am not. This HVAC technician was one of the most handsome guys that I have seen in a long long time. He was so handsome that it was a little bit hard for me to even talk to him. When he came to the door and told me who he was and then he was there to fix my air conditioning system, I actually stuttered a little bit before I let him into the house. Then I followed him around like a lovesick puppy or something. It was kind of embarrassing honestly. Looking back on it, I can’t believe that I even behave that way. The guy must have been used to it, though, because he just kind of laughed at me a little bit. He was very professional, and he got my air conditioning system back up and running in no time at all. When I offered to cook him dinner, he politely declined and said that he could not accept meals from clients. I don’t know if that’s exactly true or not, but I’m glad that he was nice enough to save my dignity that way!
I keep telling my husband we have to draw the line somewhere
My husband and I are trying to save some money, but I know that we have to draw the line somewhere when it comes to that.
My husband seems to think that we could save a whole lot of money this summer if we just choose not to use our air conditioning system at all.
When he brought that up to me, I told him that he was completely crazy. There is no way that I’m going to try and get through a long hot summer around here without my central air conditioning system. I think that it’s a little bit different for my husband, because he grew up without having central air conditioning in his house. His parents did not believe in air conditioning. When he first told me that, I just laughed at him like he was making a joke. I did not know that people could not believe in air conditioning. It’s not like it’s the tooth fairy or something like that. Air conditioning does actually exist. Anyway, he can easily do without air conditioning, but I’m not that way at all. I get very grumpy if I get overly hot and I know that I could never make it through the summer without our central air conditioning system. I am all for saving money this summer, but we’re gonna have to find another way to do it. Shutting down the air conditioning for three months during the hottest part of the year is just not going to work for me. I can’t believe he even mentioned it.