Author: Matt

I’m the sort of person who tries to approach life in a glass half full sort of way.

So the fact that it’s almost the end of July is a positive when it comes to heat season being over.

In this region, June through September means lots of HVAC cooling just to manage the levels of heat and humidity. For sure, that pair can wear a person down over the course of four months. So that’s why I look at being near the halfway point of summer as a good thing. Instead of looking at it as having 2 more months of max air conditioning, I look at it as we’re just that much closer to having the best 8 months of weather anywhere I’ve ever lived. Though without the heat pump, there’s no doubt that living here would be just the toughest thing ever. The temperatures stay hovering near a hundred degrees day after day. And that alone would be tough but then you factor in the wet blanket of moisture in the air and it just doubles the misery outside. That humidity can be a real back breaker indeed. Thankfully, the heat pump takes care of that while cooling off our homes. Residential HVAC is a process of moving heat energy out of the house so cooler air can replace it. But as that heat energy is being exhausted out of the house, the heat pump is also balancing the humidity levels. With HVAC cooling from the HVAC equipment, it’s like getting a two for one in the summer. And believe me, around here that is greatly appreciated.

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My sister Holly is the only female HVAC technician in town.

• I guess that even though times are really changing here and everywhere, there still just aren’t all that many women in the HVAC industry.

Holly decided that she wanted to become a heating and cooling technician back before she even finished up with high school, though. She has always been interested in that kind of thing, ever since we were little kids. Back in the day when we were growing up, I used to want to play with dolls and stuffed animals, but Holly would always have my dad’s toolbox trying to work on something around the house. We used to make fun of her for things like that, but these days, I actually envy her for knowing what she’s doing. She’s the only one out of all of us cousins who went to work in the service industry, and so she is the one that we all call whenever we need something fixed at our homes. Only now, she makes fun of us! Holly always says that we are all doomed to not know how to fix anything. Anyway, she really loves her job as an HVAC technician and she loves the company that she works for too. Whenever I have trouble with my air conditioning system or my heating system at home, I am lucky to be able to call my sister to come and fix it for me! It’s one of those things that I used to take for granted, but now I definitely do not. I am proud of her for being an HVAC technician.
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This past weekend, we stayed in a hotel during a baseball tournament and the air conditioning actually worked almost too well! The place was freezing inside.

From the minute that we walked into the lobby, I was cold. Maybe it was because I was used to feeling so cold out in the heat at the ball fields, but the temperature inside of the hotel was just ridiculously cold. If you ask me, then the people who are in the entertainment and leisure industry should have to take some kind of class about temperature settings before they start working! I really don’t think that the management at the hotel had any idea what they were doing because it was so dang cold inside of the place. Not only was the lobby too cold, but the temperature inside of the hotel restaurant had to be about 62 degrees. It was freezing in there. I was so uncomfortable that I had to go and find a pool towel to wrap around my shoulders while I was trying to eat dinner. I even asked our server if they could turn the air conditioning up a little bit but he said that it’s always that cold in the restaurant! Thank goodness that each hotel room has its own thermostat unit inside so I was able to set the temperature where I wanted it to be in my own room. I think that 72 degrees is the perfect temperature. I wish that it was 72 degrees year round! I will never forget that place. It felt like sleeping inside of an icebox.
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The temperature that week is slated to be in the high nineties so it will probably be miserable outside.

We are going to be having a great big graduation party for our daughter this year, and we are going to hold the entire thing outside because of space constraints. Our house is not exactly the biggest one around, if you know what I mean, but we do have a good sized yard. I am planning on getting a couple of large party tents to put out in the backyard so that we will have some shade, but a lot of people are already complaining to me about the fact that the party will not be air conditioned. I don’t know how I’m supposed to help the fact that we do not have air conditioning outside. The fact of the matter is that we are going to be having the party on one of the hottest weeks of the year. The temperature that week is slated to be in the high nineties so it will probably be miserable outside. I mean, I guess we could get tents with flaps on them and put some portable air conditioning systems inside, but I just don’t know if that would be worth the time, the money, or the effort. I’m also not sure how much it would cost to get air conditioning for two large tents. We are going to have a whole lot of people here, and I don’t want anybody to feel cramped because they are inside of a tent! I think I would rather have open air tents instead. I think I will just tell people to go inside into the A/C for a break whenever they get too hot.

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My dad is going to be moving in with us this month, but I’m nervous about the fact that he loves his air conditioning so much.

At our house, we have central air conditioning, but we just don’t use it as much as my dad does at his house. My dad is one of those guys who likes to keep it frigid cold inside during the summer. I don’t know why he is that way, but every time I go over there during the summer months, I end up having to put on a coat! Since he’s gonna have some modern surgery on his knee, we decided that he should move in with us during his convalescent period. The only problem with this little arrangement is the fact that it is the hottest month of the year. Right now, the temperatures here are sometimes getting into the triple digits and I know that my dad is going to want his air conditioning to be set around 65 degrees. However, at our house, we never set the air conditioning below 72 degrees, even on the hottest days of the year. We like to keep the windows open, if it’s at all possible. I know that my dad is going to hate that with a passion. Maybe I will just set up a window unit air conditioner in his room so he can keep it as cold as he wants to in there . The central air conditioning isn’t ever going to be set at 65 degrees. I can tell you that with certainty!

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Our friends have decided that they are going to get a divorce and the main reason is because they could not decide on their thermostat settings in their house. I guess this is something that they have been fighting about since the day that they first got married, and they were never able to work it out with each other. I couldn’t even believe it when they told us this. I thought that this was the weirdest thing that I had ever heard whenever they first told us about it. I mean, they have been married for almost 9 years now. You would think that between the two of them, and maybe even with some help from a counselor, they would have been able to figure out a compromise or something. I think that the main thing was the fact that the wife was always freezing cold, but the husband was always hot. I heard them fighting several different times about the fact that she thought that her husband had the air conditioning system turned down too low. She would walk around with a giant sweater or a winter coat on in the middle of the summer, just to prove a point to her husband. Meanwhile, he would act like he was sweating to death and he would stick his head inside of the freezer so that she would know that he was unhappy with the temperature in the house. I’ve never seen a couple have such a falling out as this one did. I can’t believe that they are actually going to get divorced over this.

 

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The HVAC system in our office was terrible up until this last month or so.

The owners of the building where the office is just have never really seemed to care all that much about the indoor air quality in the building at all.

I know that we used to suffer quite a bit from the terrible air quality whenever the weather was really hot outside or when it was really cold. The air conditioning in the building was not great, and neither was the heating system. I remember feeling like the air conditioning wasn’t even working at all during some of the hot summer days last year. It was a rough situation for us to be in, since we were trying to work but it was so hot and muggy inside of the building. Plus, our office was up on the top floor and so that made it even hotter! I was shocked to find out that they were actually going to install a new heating and cooling system in the building for us. I mean, after so many years of dealing with terrible indoor air quality in the building, we just weren’t sure about the reasoning behind it. I wonder if a lot of people were complaining about the air quality or something. We always dread the summer because of the terrible air conditioning system in the building. I’m thinking that someone probably complained about it and that’s how we have ended up with this new HVAC system. I guess that the squeaky wheel does get the grease sometimes.

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My kids would not leave the thermostat settings alone this year and so finally, I took drastic measures to help myself save some money. You know, it would be different if they were pitching in some money to help pay for the heating and cooling bills. However, nobody around here ever pays for anything except for me. It’s just one of those things about being a single parent that you just have to deal with. Anyway, for some reason my kids started to think that they could adjust the settings on the thermostat whenever they felt like it. I remember when I was a kid, my dad told me not to touch the thermostat and I would never touch it! I was scared that he would smack me into the middle of next week if I ever even thought about touching it. However, my kids don’t have that healthy fear of me, unfortunately. Apparently, when I told them not to touch the thermostat system, they just took that as a joke.They started raising the air conditioning and lowering it all Willy nilly whenever they were too cold or too hot and they ended up making my cooling bills almost double. I was so annoyed when I got the bill for the air conditioning this past month that I went out and got a new thermostat system with the ability to be locked with a digital code. My kids keep trying to change the temperature and it just beeps at them. So far, it’s the best money that I ever spent.

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My allergies have made me so miserable this year that I would do just about anything to try and help myself keep from going crazy.

At this point, I have my local HVAC company coming over to install a UV light air purification system.

This was basically the last straw for me. I was ready to just give up and crawl in a hole somewhere because of all of my allergy issues this year. Then I went to see my allergy doctor again and he told me that he would try to stop the problems at the source instead of having me take even more medication. All of the medication that I have been taking really has me stressed out. I’m very shaky because of it and I just don’t want to take any more. I was glad when he told me to try and call up my HVAC company instead, to see if they could help me with a cure for all of my symptoms. The first thing that they suggested was that we get our ductwork system cleaned out professionally. That made sense to me because if there is a lot of pollen clogged up in there somehow then that would be causing my problems. I made an appointment to have that done, and while they were here, I decided that I was going to just kill two birds with one stone. As they were finishing up with the ventilation duct cleaning, I made another appointment with him to come and install a UV light air purification system for the entire house. If this doesn’t help me with my allergies, then I really don’t know what will!

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My husband did not want to pay for professional air duct cleaning for our house this year, and his cheapness has finally made me mad.

He keeps saying that we don’t really need to get our ductwork cleaned out, but I think that we do.

We had some remodeling work done here earlier this year and so we ended up having a whole lot of drywall dust floating around in the house for a couple of weeks. I know that the drywall dust was everywhere inside of our ventilation ducts. The fact that the dust was coating all of the ductwork did not really make for very good indoor air quality, that’s for sure. We were having all kinds of issues with the HVAC system in the house and whenever I talked to the HVAC company about it, they told me that it would help matters if we had the ductwork cleaned. Well, I wanted to make an appointment with them to get it done, but my husband said that he didn’t want to pay someone else to do it. I thought that was ridiculous, but he said that he and my son would just do it themselves with our vacuum cleaner. I just rolled my eyes whenever he said that, but I let him go ahead and try. Now, I’m mad at him, though. He should have just let me make the appointment with the HVAC company because whenever he and my son were trying to use the vacuum cleaner, of all things, my son fell and hurt himself. This would never have happened if my husband hadn’t been so cheap!

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