I can still hear my granny’s voice saying these words. It’s interesting how you can remember someone’s voice who has been gone for such a long while… Usually when she said these words she would be eating some kind of sweets saying “the doctor told me not to eat sweets however just this time”. Well, she lived to be 97 years outdated so I recognize the sweets weren’t so awful after all. Her and my gramps lived in a small home on a lake and had no Heating & Air Conditioning device at all for the location. They didn’t need a cooling system back then as the summers were not that toasty while we were in the day, and at night the temps would dip down into the upper 50s as I recall. They had a wood burning fireplace for the winters and I suppose they even had some small space oil furnaces that used some kind of coil to heat the room. I can still remember the burning stink when they would turn it on for the first time in the cold season. I miss those afternoons at the lakehouse with my Grandparents and I miss the fires we made in the fireplace on those cold blustery afternoons in the midst of the winter, but grandparents are really special and sadly we usually never realize this till they are gone. My Grandpa was a Heating & Air Conditioning salesman and he sold space oil furnaces and heat pumps going door to door. I couldn’t imagine having to knock on strangers’ doors trying to sell Heating & Air Conditioning devices that 98% of them didn’t want. Times have changed a bit since then haven’t they!
The different types of thermostats