HVAC Information For Homeowners

It’s time that we finally just came to grips with the heat and humidity around here.

When we first moved to the south, we were stunned by just how insanely hot it can get during the summer months.

From June through September, you don’t want to be too far from the air conditioning. But of course, my wife and I just took that idea way too far. Sure, it’s important to have HVAC cooling as without it, the summer would be near impossible to manage. At the same time, it’s also really important to get a handle on the HVAC cooling as well. We spent so much money on air conditioning over the last couple of summers that it’s really sort of embarrassing. So this year, we decided that we’d get some control over the cost of HVAC cooling. While we sealed up the house really well by replacing weather stripping and sealing all the gaps, there was more to it than a tight house. We put up some solar drapes in the parts of the house where the direct sunlight heating is the worst. That made a big difference. But truly, it was a combination of acclimating to the heat and thermostat discipline that we think will do the trick. This spring, we held off on just going right for the HVAC cooling. Instead, we waited until it was really up in the 90’s before we kicked it on during the day. Now, we just have to stick to our thermostat discipline and grab a fan instead of cranking the HVAC cooling when it gets warm during the peak heating hours of the day.
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Thankfully, my new place came with brand new residential HVAC

The change in weather was actually way down the list of potential challenges when I was considering the new job. The biggest challenge would be leaving the zone controlled office where I had worked for the better part of a decade. It was going to be weird not to be working alongside all those great people I had known for such a long time. The thought that I was going from air conditioning to heating as being the main focus of HVAC was not that big a concern. Well, I took that job and I moved way up north. This was the first time that I had really struck out alone. When I went to college, I went almost locally. I even lived in the quality heating and air of my parent’s house for the first two years. Even the job I landed with all that zone controlled HVAC wasn’t but an hour from where I grew up and lived through college. So this was a big deal. Of course, I really focused on the work for the first six months or so. And that really paid off as the team saw my skills and trust was built. I even commented several times that I the summer was so much better up here. There wasn’t that huge need for HVAC cooling like there was back home. And then, the winter hit. I have to say that I am just now getting over the shock and surprise of just how cold a northern winter can really be. Thankfully, my new place came with brand new residential HVAC. The gas furnace I have is awesome and pumps out the HVAC heating I so need. And the HVAC technology with this gas furnace also makes it super efficient.

 

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Where we live, we can get some rather extreme weather.

• Mainly, that comes in the form of some very strong storms.

We’ve always been very ready for power outages and such. I mean, nobody wants to go without HVAC while they are fixing the power. But that’s sort of part of it. We have a solar generator that at least provides light, a fan and we can also hook up a computer or recharge the phones as well. And then, we just sit it out in the sun and it recharges. Between that solar generator and the cooking on our gas grill, we are pretty set until the lights are back on. Sometimes that can take a day and sometimes it can be a week or more. There was one storm a few years ago that was particularly bad and caused a lot of damage. A neighbor had some damage to the HVAC equipment outside. He told me he was going with a local handyman for the fix instead of waiting for the HVAC professionals to get to him. I tried to warn him that this wasn’t the best of idea at all. But there was not stopping him at all. And the as soon as the lights came back on, the handyman did his thing. Unfortunately, that fix lasted less than a week. And the handyman did not guarantee the work so my neighbor was just out of luck. The good thing was that the HVAC professionals were able to fix the HVAC equipment in his house and fix it right. Oh and those HVAC professionals do guarantee their work!

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I’m often just about to do something that is actually stupid when my wife shows me just how stupid I’m being.

I’ve got a real blind spot when it comes to what I think I can do and what is obviously way out of my league.

Sometimes, I think that maybe I’d be better off just sitting in the air conditioning watching TV. Seems like whenever I try to do something around the house, I either have no idea what I’m doing or I break stuff. That’s just sort of the way it goes. Still, I’m always drawn to stuff that needs to be fixed. I hate spending money on replacing stuff if I can fix it. And even worse, I don’t want to pay someone else for something I could do myself. But when it comes to HVAC equipment, that should really be left up to the HVAC professionals. I think I knew this on some level even before I thought I could fix the air conditioning. So when I came home to find the heat pump running but no HVAC cooling, it seemed like there should be an easy fix. I got online to diagnose what was happening and figure out the fix. Then I watched several video before loading some to my tablet to take with me outside. I was just sure that a refrigerant recharge was all that was needed. As I was taking off the cover of the HVAC cabinet outside, I heard my wife walk up behind me. She just started reading the part of the HVAC warranty that indicated that I was about to void the HVAC warranty if I didn’t call the HVAC professionals.

 

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I was into talking to the HVAC professional about air purification just to stop the stink in this house.

My husband, well he had other ideas.

We are just a couple of years away from having an empty nest. And we’re thinking that we’ll sell this big house once the last child is off to college. It’s just too much for two people. We’d also really like to cash in on hot real estate market as well. So I think my husband was coming at the air purification thing with the idea of adding value to the house. This air purifier was not some stand up model you had to move around. No the one the HVAC professionals showed us would fit inside the HVAC equipment. No need for filter cleaning or moving the air purifier from room to room. That was really appealing to me. But what really was the tipping point was the indoor air quality. Neither my husband nor myself were aware of just how vital good indoor air quality really is. The more the HVAC professional explained, the more we realized at just how fundamental good indoor air quality really is. Plus, the HVAC professionals assured me that the air inside our home would be the cleanest smelling air we could even imagine. Now that was music to my ears. With the kids, the dogs, a cat and all the home cooking, the odors could be intense. So we went for the whole home air purification system. The HVAC technician installed that air purifier in no time. And along with super healthy indoor air, I have the best smelling house on the planet as far as I’m concerned.

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I’ll for sure be the first one to admit that my wife was just absolutely right. For years, she was after me to get some real air conditioning for the summer. I ignored all that for the longest time because we live so far north that it gets hot maybe 8 weeks a year. And for that time span, I toss in a window air conditioner and we move on. I have one window A/C unit in the living room and one in our bedroom. That took care of the HVAC cooling as far as I was concerned. But the older we became, the more my wife just kept on with the central air conditioning. To sort of shut her up, I decided that we’d take a meeting with an HVAC contractor. The HVAC professional actually came out to the house which was nice. He inspected everything and even commented on how much he liked my gas furnace and the back up wood stove heating set up I have. When he was done with the measuring and inspecting, we got down to the details. I was stunned by how affordable putting in the central air conditioning unit really was. Shoot, it was almost worth that amount of money just to not have to put those dang window units in and out every summer. The first time it got hot last summer, we turned on the air conditioning and it was incredible. Yep, my wife was sure right all along. Having central air conditioning has made our lives all that more sweet.

 

 

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Had I known just how great it would be to have a big, enclosed sunroom just off the back of the house, I’d have gotten one much sooner.

The addition of this sunroom just totally changed the dynamic in our home.

We live in a region where the seasons are so equally separated you could set a clock to them. When it seems like there’s been enough HVAC heating, the spring comes. And then the air conditioning is on for almost exactly the same amount of time the HVAC heating is on. But it’s the fall that is the most beautiful to experience. Perhaps it was that fall color and perfect weather that finally inspired me to go ahead with the sunroom. My wife had been suggesting the sunroom for ages. But I just didn’t think that we’d use it. Bless my wife, she did not let it go and just got more into doing the due diligence on the sunroom. Not only would it add so much more room to the house and open it up, it would add value as well. So we shopped around for a few months before finding a great deal that we just couldn’t pass up. The crew put in the sunroom in like a week. It attaches to the back of the house and we ripped out most of one wal to sort of open up the space. But the HVAC equipment in the house just wasn’t big enough to take on the added air volume. The HVAC professionals fixed that if a flash with the ductless heat pump. And that thing provides the best quality heating and air we could have ever asked for.

 

 

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I’m not much of a gambler.

There are a few reasons for this.

The biggest reason is I don’t like taking risks that I can’t control or fully understand. And then there is the fact that I just don’t have the stomach for gambling. I’d much rather sit inside the air conditioning and enjoy a good book than bet on a game or something like that. But I took a huge gamble with the heat pump and it just didn’t go my way. I should have known better than gambling on anything really much less the quality heating and air in my house. Well, the heating wasn’t the issue. The HVAC technician came out to do the air conditioning tune-up last spring. That’s when he told me that we were close to the end on the life of the heat pump. Of course, he couldn’t predict just when exactly. But that heat pump was not going to get fixed again if it broke down. That made sense but my wife and I hadn’t exactly been saving for a new HVAC unit. Actually, we did start saving for it but ended up raiding that savings account to pay for other household needs. We needed more time to save for the new HVAC unit. So we rolled the dice that we’d get through the summer. Where we live, the winter isn’t much at all and so if we could get through summer, we’d have plenty of time to save. That wasn’t the case as the heat pump bit the dust in mid July. But the HVAC company had our backs and we were able to agree to great financing terms.

 

 

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Both of us are going to be building an addition onto our condo this summer time once the youngsters get finished up with college at the end of this week.

I’m so excited about it that I can’t even kneel it because we have been waiting to do this for years now.

I have wanted to have an extra living area as well as an extra home office for a while now as well as the time has finally come! Both of us are hiring our general contractor this month as well as we have already picked out the local Heating as well as Air Conditioning contractor that we want to use for the Heating as well as Air Conditioning area of the addition. I recognize that our current Heating as well as Air Conditioning plan in the condo will not be able to support the heating as well as cooling that we will need in the addition, so we’re going to use an Heating as well as Air Conditioning contractor to install something that will work. I’ve been doing some reading on the subject, as well as I suppose that our best bet would be to get something called a ductless mini split heating as well as cooling system. If we get 1 of these then we will not have to add any additional HVAC duct as well as that is what I am hoping for. I don’t want to have to mess up the ceilings that we are going to be putting in as well as if we use HVAC duct, then we will have to lower the ceilings some or raise the roof. Any time you have to make a change love that, you end up having to spend more currency. That’s something that I would love to avoid if it’s at all possible.

 

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For a little while, we have been trying to take down this huge tree in our front yard. The tree must’ve been 60 feet high when we first started on it. The branches reached high into the sky as well as we were distraught that the tree might collapse onto our condo since some critters were burrowing inside the base of the tree, making it hollow! Since the tree had a natural lean towards our house, I thought it would be too risky to try to split it at the base as well as pull it in a certain direction. So I ended up getting a couple of rope saw kits, and you basically shoot a line over the branches, pull up the chain saw, as well as back as well as forth until the branches fall. Well, this is harder than it seems to do since there is a lot of work in the sawing back as well as forth action. While I was out there with my spouse, we were weary as well as we needed to take regular A/C breaks, and i swear after each branch we got down, we were cheerful with our progress, however the A/C of the condo was calling our names, then both of us also have a water cooler as well as that ice-cold water was helping us guess refreshed while we were great in the A/C for a bit before we got back to work on the tree. Both of us took down all the branches finally, however now we are stuck trying to split the middle section. It’s way thicker than the other branches. Both of us actually tried, although I ended up hurting my arm. My father in law was saying we should have just split it down with the chainsaw, although I don’t want to risk huge financial mangles to the condo if that tree falls into the house.

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My hubby Randall is a truly wonderful Heating plus A/C worker; He’s been doing it for a while now, plus he truly likes it.

He always knew that he wanted to be an Heating plus A/C worker from the time that he was a young kid.

His older brother was going to school to become an Heating plus A/C worker plus he always wanted to do everything just like his older brother did. I believe that hasn’t stopped, either, because he still wants to follow in his older brother’s footsteps, even now. However, since his older brother is about 10 years older than him, he is much further advanced in his job than Randall is. His brother now owns a local heating plus cooling dealer, plus Randall actually works for him. He truly enjoys his job, plus he actually prefers working with his brother too.When he first started working for his brother at the HR dealer, I thought there might be an issue because sometimes families don’t work all that well together. My fears were unfounded, though, because they truly appreciate being together everyday plus running the corporation together. I think that Randall might end up becoming a partner at the Heating plus A/C dealer, because his brother keeps hinting about it. I think that would actually be a good thing. I think that Randall wants to continue working as an Heating plus A/C worker, but he might do well as a corporation owner also, and randall enjoys going to the continuing education classes that come up for heating plus cooling technology every now plus then. He truly prefers staying on top of things. His brother does not like doing that, so they make a truly good team.

 

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