Since I’ve been running a bed & breakfast out of our beach home here at the coast, I’ve had to make a lot of decisions. It’s been interesting, no doubt. Meeting all of these new people & really being a server full-time has been a roller coaster of a ride. I’ve had to make decorating decisions, advertising decisions, culinary decisions, & service decisions. But I suppose that the best decision that I’ve made so far was the decision to put zone control HVAC in all of our guest rooms upstairs. I have more than five living rooms in the upstairs part of our home that I rent out to guests. Before I had zone control HVAC system installed up there, the thermostat situation around here was a evening mare. The two of us would have 5 or more than five guests here at a time, & every one of them would seem to want the thermostat to be set at a different temperature! And you particularly can’t please everybody all of the time. My Grandmother used to say that, but now that I own a B&B, I guess that it’s the fair truth! One guy would be freezing & begging myself and others to turn the furnace on, while just down the hall, another guest would be burning up & asking if the people I was with and I could turn on the air conditioning! And since I want all of our guests to be ecstatic & to make a return trip sometime in the future, the zone control HVAC was particularly the only way to go. It’s made our life so much easier, & I only wish I had done it before I ever opened up for business!
The different types of thermostats