HVAC Repair Tips for Homeowners

Some items automatically come with extended warranties while others do not.

Most of the computers I have purchased over the years extended the options to add a warranty on for an additional cost, while other devices like smartphones sometimes come with their own limited warranties free of cost.

It’s not until you get into other markets that you find better deals out the gate that aren’t charged as an additional feature to the consumer. I recently purchased an advanced reflector telescope to see deep sky objects like nebulae and galaxies. Because of its sheer cost, it came with a manufacturer warranty. Basically anything that went wrong outside of user damage was covered for five years. My family got to see some amazing visuals with that telescope within a week of owning it and learning how to use it. You have to collimate the lenses and mirrors on a Newtonian telescope, and it’s a process that takes time to learn. Luckily I don’t have to worry about calibrating my HVAC system because that’s what my heating and cooling supplier is for. I call them twice a year so they can send an HVAC technician to my house to service, clean, and calibrate my HVAC system. Sometimes the compressor needs more coolant or the dampers in the ductwork might need to be adjusted. Like my telescope, my HVAC system also came with a manufacturer warranty, but for 10 years instead of five. That means any problems within the HVAC system in a decade are paid for by the manufacturer. I just have to cover the labor costs, but that is easy if you purchase an annual HVAC maintenance plan.
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I thought I found the best situation in the world when I started using my current mechanic.

He was my former neighbor’s son who had just finished a stint in trade school learning to be a car mechanic and worked most days at a tire and lube business in our small town.

After doing such a good job replacing my brakes for me once, I hired him for more and more car related maintenance and repair tasks. He successfully replaced the radiator in an old vehicle of mine that my wife wanted to sell to a junkyard. Then we had another extra car to give to our kids to use whenever they wanted to. While our kids didn’t want to drive an old car, it was better than not having one at all. Unfortunately, this young mechanic didn’t work out for the best as time went on. He made a costly error when trying to replace a catalytic converter in my SUV and it forced me to take the car to an expensive auto shop to fix the error. When I wanted the kid to replace the air conditioner a few months later, he outright refused. He hadn’t replaced an air conditioner compressor in a car before and he was worried about making a mistake with the installation process. I give him credit for acknowledging his limitations and having the courage and maturity to refuse a job he couldn’t successfully do on his own. Sadly, it meant that my wife and I had to pay more than we expected to get the car’s air conditioner fixed in the long run.
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It’s easy to conflate things when you’re not in possession of a full understanding of a particular topic.

I’m not a sports person, so you wouldn’t want my advice on one team’s likelihood of defeating their rivals versus a different team.

I don’t watch the games, I don’t follow the teams, and I couldn’t tell you if one player was a star athlete or a fourth-stringer who just surfaced from the minor leagues. But if you asked me about the history or rock music, I could talk your ear off about one musician after the next. I spent hours on wikipedia when I was much younger researching endless information about musicians and bands that I loved, but nowadays I do it with movies instead. The point is that I wouldn’t be a good expert for anything else, especially HVAC systems. I fell for the misleading advertising of those air coolers that are sold in department stores for under $50. They promise immediate air conditioning in small spaces, but they’re nothing more than an evaporative cooler. I learned that evaporative coolers can only work in low humidity environments. Instead of drying air and cooling it like an air conditioner, evaporative coolers create an energy drop by evaporating water into air vapor. If you have a low humidity environment, it encourages the cooling and evaporation process. With too much humidity, you’re basically just running a humidifier with minimal temperature change. That’s why those little air coolers are not much more than water misters. These devices are much more expensive than they should be.

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I never thought I’d one day be purchasing a condominium, as I figured it was like having to buy a property that you don’t really own but still have to pay rent on in the long run.

While that might be true in a sense when you factor in condo association fees, it’s not nearly true in reality because you have rights that a renter does not. You can earn equity on the property and sell it whenever you want. It’s still a possession, but you just have to abide by the rules agreed upon by the condo community as a whole. You can make changes or alterations to the inside or outside of the condo without explicit permission from the condo association. That’s the agreement you make when you apply and become a member of the condo community. I like mine because we have services and amenities included with our condo fees that other places don’t. One huge factor is HVAC care. We have a heating and cooling supplier that handles HVAC care and maintenance for all of the condo community residents whenever it is needed. They even replace our air conditioner and furnace filters every three months. It’s a great service to have added onto the others that are included in the condo fees we pay every single month. I don’t know any other condo communities like this one in the area that have HVAC care included with water and cable amenities. It’s nice to forgo worrying about heating and cooling service and maintenance now that I live here.

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