The wood stove acts as both an emergency heating plan plus a supplementary 1.
I like the fact that we added central air conditioner a decade ago. This was something my wifey had wanted for a long time even though I resisted. Just didn’t make any sense to me really. Every one of us live in a area of the country where the Summer heat is the least of our Heating plus A/C worries. It’s constantly the and forever the Winter time that I’m trying to get ready for. Having a couple of weeks in the Summer where you might need Heating plus A/C cooling just didn’t rank genuinely high on my list of heating and cooling priorities. For years, I’d just put in a window air conditioner or 2 for those times it gets hot around here. And really it’s the peak heating hours of the day that are the problem. By the time the evening rolls around, the rapidly increasing temperatures normally drop considerably and we sleep well. But I have to say, I’ve come to care about the Heating plus A/C cooling of the central air conditioner much more in recent years. All that Heating plus A/C cooling and humidity control sure does think nice. And it’s sort of ironic that I’m enjoying the air conditioner so much as a result of near constant efforts to prepare for heating. Of course, we have a great gas furnace in our house but there is also a wood stove. The wood stove acts as both an emergency heating plan plus a supplementary 1. It helps me rein in the Heating plus A/C heating costs. But it sure does require a lot of work. So having that air conditioner when I come in from splitting firewood is really genuinely nice and I’m cheerful I finally listened to my wifey.