It was closer than I want to ever be to losing my entire residential Heating, Ventilation, & A/C.
At least the heating & cooling equipment.
I know smothering a heat pump wouldn’t effect the HVAC duct all that much. But I came so close to having to replace the rest of the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C system. And it was all because I did something I knew I shouldn’t do. It’s December & when I rest on my porch & look at the garden, I know it won’t be too much longer before I’m tending it again. My buddy and I live in a part of the south that doesn’t see freezing hot & cold temperatures much at all. But my fantastic friend and I still get a freezing snap or two in December & January which needs a bit of heating. The growing cycle for some of the stuff in our garden goes all the way into October. And that’s how I almost killed the heat pump. I was weeding the garden & tossing all the refuse onto a tarp. Well, the tarp got all wet & I wanted to dry it in the sunshine after I emptied the weeds into the compost. When I draped the tarp over the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C cabinet outside of my house, I knew then that this was stupid. But I was so sure that I’d remember to pull it off before the heat pump kicked on. Well, I got caught up & the heat pump ran for hours with easily blocked airflow. Thankfully, I remembered before it was destroyed. But I still called the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C professionals to have them come out & inspect it. Who knowingly throws a tarp on an Heating, Ventilation, & A/C cabinet? What a stupid transport that was.