I got my air conditioning this year

So we haven’t had all that much luck when it comes to family vacations over the last several years.

Of course, the last two summer we had to opt for a stay at home vacation and then a camping trip the next year. That’s all thanks to Covid of course. And prior to that, we had done our normal beach trip. Still, not all that great. The room was cramped with all of us in there and the HVAC cooling just wasn’t very good. I’m being kind, the air conditioning in that room was the worst. We even packed up and moved rooms after the first night we spent sweating through the sheets. But the next room just wasn’t much better and it was even smaller. So, my wife and I chose to just ignore the fact that the commercial HVAC was junk and focus on the fun stuff and our kids. Of course, the kids could have cared less about HVAC cooling. Ol Dad though, he needs that sweet cooling comfort that comes from a good heat pump. And that’s why I think we’ve found the spot for our vacation going forward. Same beach but this is a vacation rental that has the latest in residential HVAC with all sorts of HVAC technology. That house even has zone controlled HVAC. Not only is the air conditioning maybe the best ever but I even had a thermostat in our room. Dad was so happy during this vacation with all that HVAC cooling comfort. We were due for a great situation after all. And we’ll be booking all that HVAC comfort again next year.

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The more things change the more they stay the same at least with HVAC

It’s just so hard to believe that I’ve been living in the house for 25 years.

Equally tough to swallow is the fact that I’m in my late 50’s.

I mean, I look in the mirror and it’s me but there is just so much gray and all those crinkles. At least my wife loves me right? When I chose to leave the city and move out here, I had to buy my first house. And I put in the best residential HVAC I could afford at the time. It was such a big deal, me buying a house and then doing a bit of renovating. That was really the only way I could afford the house. But doing those projects with my brother was great. However, we left the heating and cooling to the HVAC professionals. That was pretty much a no brainer since we weren’t about to attempt to replace old HVAC equipment on our own. That would have ended in complete disaster even though we’re both pretty handy and good at home improvement stuff. Our dad was that way and we just followed him around soaking up all the stuff he knew how to do. But like dad, we knew when we would be completely over our head with a project. And the HVAC equipment was definitely the domain of the HVAC professionals. A lot has happened since those days, I met a girl from here and we are married with lots of dogs and cats. And I’m still commuting to the zone controlled HVAC of the office an hour away. Sure enough, I called the same HVAC company to start the process of replacing the heating and cooling equipment as well since it’s been 25 years.

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Not too tough to make all the air conditioning a bit easier on the wallet

You know, I get really tired of those in my life who just can’t seem to find the joy in any part of life.

It’s getting to the point where I’m thinking that maybe I just limit the time I’m around those people.

But, some of those folks are family and I have to visit them inside the air conditioning of their homes. I do a lot of biting my tongue and focusing on just how pleasant the HVAC cooling is in the house. That’s about all I can do when it’s just one grievance after another. It’s like just a rolling ball of mud that keeps hitting me in the face one after another. And then, I caught myself whining about something that I could totally control. For the last several years, utility costs have gone up and up in our region. And I have done nothing at all to mitigate those costs when it comes to the heating and cooling in my house. Well really, it’s the cooling way more than the heating. Where I live, the heat pump gets time off for good behavior during our ultra mild winter. It might come on a dozen times the whole winter. But the cost of all the air conditioning during our blazing summer can mangle a household budget. So when I caught myself whining about the high cost of air conditioning, I decided to do something instead of just go on and on about it. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t too tough or labor intensive. And I’m saving just over 20 percent on HVAC cooling costs over last year.
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Loving my home gym and its great air conditioning

So the gym I joined just wasn’t making it any easier on me to stick to my commitment to make my health and fitness more of a priority.

  • That just didn’t make it easier or add any sort motivation for me to get to the gym.

And really, when I would be ending my day inside the zone controlled HVAC of the office, all I wanted to do was get home to my recliner. Yet, I would tell myself that if I could just get to the gym, I wouldn’t be thinking so much about the air conditioning in my house. The fact that the heating and cooling in the gym wasn’t up to par just didn’t help me. I’d get myself to the gym but it would be pretty uncomfortable in there. I don’t know if the commercial HVAC in that building was designed for a gym or not. But the HVAC equipment was clearly overmatched. In the winter, it was cold unless you were right up in front with everyone else on the cardio machines. But in the summer, it’s a cooker in there. The HVAC cooling just didn’t have a chance. As soon as I would walk in, it was as though someone dropped a hot, wet towel on my head. That’s not the way you want to end your day at the gym. I finally hung it up and didn’t renew my membership. Instead, I called the HVAC company and put a gym in my basement. I mean, it’s not a full gym as I’m adding pieces as I find them online for cheap. But the ductless heat pump produces the best quality heating and air of any gym in the county.

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HVAC unit helps us realize our sustainability goals

I just can’t quite understand why we, as a planet, are completely dragging our feet when it comes to climate change.

And our country, supposedly a world leader in innovation, is one of the worst.

I don’t know if it’s an unwillingness to change or because we’re all accustomed to getting what we want with a mouse click while inside all that HVAC. For sure, we’re soft when it comes to being willing to put the needs of our planet and future generations in front of our immediate wants. There was even a big stink inside the zone controlled HVAC of the office when the company wanted to boost the thermostat in the summer. I mean we aren’t talking about going from a thermostat setting of 71 to 90. It was just a simple change to the thermostat that was like 4 degrees. The company even did the carbon offset math to show the difference just that much makes. Still, you’d a thought the world was ending because the thermostat was going up 3 or 4 degrees. So I don’t hold out a bunch of hope that we’ll get it together. Still, in my personal life, my wife and I try to be sure that we’re living as sustainably as we can. The geothermal heat pump we chose for the heating and cooling of our home is a prime example. The geo heat pump uses the earth’s near constant temperature to extract heating and cooling energy. It’s the most efficient and sustainable HVAC equipment we could get our hands on.

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Quick thinking by my HVAC guy saved my bacon

It’s not that I can’t stand my mother in law, it’s just that she is tough, tough to deal with and she really doesn’t like me too much. From the moment I met her inside the quality heating and air of her big home, I was sort of deemed unworthy. That stung but that designation stuck but simply got worse once my wife said yes to my proposal. Still, it is what it is and she’s family. I’m thrilled that her daughter is my partner in this life and we are enjoying it. We’re lucky to have a nice home with great air conditioning equipment. That’s something you just have to have around here. While the fall, winter and spring can be spectacular, the heat of summer is a killer. So you’re heat pump better be right. That’s why we invested in the best residential HVAC with the most HVAC technology we could afford. When my mother in law moved closer to us, she didn’t heed our advice on the heat pump. She decided to inherit the one that was there and it promptly took the dirt nap right in the middle of summer. But my quick thinking HVAC professional, whom I’ve known for years, brought in 3 portable air conditioning units. That woman was already packing to move into my house for a month while she waited for the new HVAC unit. Man, I tell you, I’m so thankful my HVAC buddy had my back. He didn’t even charge her for the use of those portable air conditioners. I bought him a case of the beer I know is his favorite for that beautiful move.

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Changing it all up comes with air purification as well

I don’t know how we got in such a slump.

But we did.

Perhaps, when you have demanding careers and are raising a family together, you don’t make each other the priority quite enough. It seemed like we got into this routine and just couldn’t get out of the loop. Mornings are like herding cats in order to get inside the zone controlled HVAC of the office on time. Then, it’s work all day while texting each other on who is doing what with the kids and dinner and all of that. We get back to the quality heating and air of home only to still be trying to get so many things checked off the list. And then, it starts all over again. The weekends are mainly focused around the kids but we might squeeze in a date night every 6 weeks or so. It dawned on both of us that this just wasn’t enough time together. So chose to join a gym together. We for sure needed to make our health and fitness more of a priority and we’d be doing it together. So we made that commitment to each other and it’s been terrific. Not only are we getting to be just us sharing a passion 3 or 4 times a week, it’s changing our lives as well. We’ve more energy and are just sort of more locked into making the most of each day. When even went for making the house the best when it comes to indoor air quality as well. The HVAC company installed a whole home air purification system inside the HVAC unit. We’ve changed things up for the better and now we have air purification giving us the best indoor air quality possible.

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Air conditioning makes it comfortable and not just cool

The heat pump makes our home and offices comfortable.

I can’t imagine my life without HVAC cooling. When you live where I do, you have to be ready for the heat. If you can’t deal with that then, it might behoove you to find a different region to call home. In fact, I see it quite often with folks who’ve visited during our glorious fall, winter and spring and then move here. They are so amped to have traded out the gas furnace for the heat pump that they can barely stand it. Then June rolls around and the bill comes due for that 8 months of perfect weather. From June through September, it’s a blast furnace down here. The temps can just sit right at the threshold of the century mark. And for a lot of people, four months of that is a deal breaker. I’ve seen those same people who left the gas furnace behind spend one summer down here only to pack it up and move back home. It’s that kind of thing. Either you manage those four months of heat and humidity well to enjoy the perfection of the rest of the year. Or you don’t. But without HVAC cooling, I would probably have to leave and I’m a native of the region. The heat pump makes our home and offices comfortable. Yet, it’s not just the cooling that the heat pump is offering. The HVAC cooling process also provides serious comfort in the home and office by balancing the humidity levels as well. That sure makes a difference during this time of year. But we’re halfway through heat season now so things will be looking up soon.

 

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I’m no great handyman so I leave it to the HVAC professionals

We aren’t rich but we have money for all our needs and are even able to save some each month.

I count us quite lucky actually.

We are fortunate to live in nice home with great quality heating and air. There’s a pool and my wife and I even have a little study or quiet place in the basement. That was an interesting project that we took on together. The kids are in highschool now and they’re awesome. They don’t need a ton of monitoring and it’s great that they like to have their buddies to our house. So we were always trying to make ourselves scarce. It dawned on us that we should make a space for the two of us. We called the HVAC company for an assist once we put up some interior walls. They came out and installed a ductless heat pump inside the new room that we had carved out of the basement. Our basement doesn’t have HVAC. This ductless heat pump was so nice that it inspired us to really go with it on our new room. We’ve both been getting into the yoga classes at the gym. So this awesome spot has a chill, meditative vibe. And the heating in cooling are simply perfect. It’s so funny now that we have this new spot, it’s hard not to want to get down there and chill out. Shoot, I’ve walked to the basement to open the door to our quiet space when I thought nobody was home only to find my wife already in there. And sure enough she’s blissed out with the ductless heat pump remote in her hand.

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Getting healthier means clear air as well

These days, I’m even strengthening my respiratory health by swapping out those paper HVAC air filters for a HEPA filter

I’m just so glad that I finally got this right. Getting in shape has been a circuitous path for me. I have tried many times to change my lifestyle to make good food, exercise and plenty of rest an essential in my life. And it pretty much went the way you are probably already guessing it did. It wasn’t so great and it was always sort of the same cycle. But I knew I had to stop going from sitting inside the zone controlled HVAC of the office to then sitting in my air conditioning at home. It’s like sitting is the new smoking. So, I’d make this great big effort and just amp out for like 3 weeks, get sore and frustrated for that entire time. Then, it’d be like “that’s good” and I be right back to the recliner with the HVAC cooling pumping and the beers ice cold. That was my heaven and I just simply wasn’t willing to give that away. Shoot, I would even stay sitting in my recliner and change the thermostat setting with the smart thermostat app on my phone. That’s just the epitome of lazy. Finally, I knew it was time to get help with making health and fitness a priority and just a lifestyle of choice. That’s what ultimately made my 3 weeks of effort continue and move forward. These days, I’m even strengthening my respiratory health by swapping out those paper HVAC air filters for a HEPA filter. This HEPA filter remove more than 99 percent of airborne contaminants. I’m getting so healthy that I can hardly recognize myself.

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