HVAC Repair Tips for Homeowners

I told you how I’m not sleeping so well, and now that I know the reason why I can finally try to resolve it.

At least I feel like I have made some progress just by knowing which direction I need to go in life. Maybe this will help me sleep better now. I thought it was my indoor air quality or something to do with the type of mattress I’m using, but it is something bigger than that and I need to get my life moving in the right direction before it withers away and dies. I’m sure my cooling products salesmen buddies are not going to be happy that I may be leaving the company soon, but I have to do what makes my heart feel alive again or why go on living? I’ve had stable corporate jobs as a cooling representative for years and I just felt like there was something more I was supposed to be doing with my life. I got into standup and really gave it a shot, but after 17 years I felt like it wasn’t for me anymore so I quit. I still need to work for the heating and cooling dealership for another couple of years, but I think this musical journey I have been on for a couple of years can really do some special things if I give it a chance. I think I could do the heating business work for two more years without going crazy, but I want to put more time into practicing music and end my life on a high note!
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I was talking to a young woman the other day and she wanted to know if I fixed oil furnaces and air conditioning units. I told her I could, but I seldom took on a task unless they called the apartment and made an appointment. She asked for our corporation card but I had none. I freelanced as a heating and A/C repair person and never said I was a heating and A/C professional. She said she knew someone who told her I was a heating and A/C professional and I wanted to know who told her that, but I didn’t want to sound aggressive. I had heard this before, and she gave me the name and it was one I knew well. I called our sister when I got to the beach apartment and asked her why she was telling people I was a heating and A/C professional? She chuckled and only said that I was. I was one in another lifetime, but I gave it up four years ago. I only worked on heating and A/C systems for our family. I had differences with one of our coworkers, and I was the one who was in trouble. They told me I was a troublemaker and that I had to go, so I left that day. I missed working in a heating and A/C corporation, however this was something I couldn’t help. I couldn’t change that I was a woman, but I could change where I worked. Unluckily, our boss told all the local heating and A/C corporation owners that I was trouble because she took the word of a male heating and A/C professional over me. She said I was flirting and taking all the easy repair tasks by promising I would go out with the men, but I never went through with the promises. I was engaged and didn’t need that kind of gossip and hatred following me around.

 

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My best friends wanted to go camping one more time this year. I reminded them it had already snowed, and we hadn’t had a single temperature above zero for the last two weeks. And Jack told me it was supposed to be 44F this weekend and I was going camping with them. I shook my head and told them that camping was for the springtime, summer, and early fall. I wasn’t going camping and freezing my butt off, but they said we’ll see and then they left the house. I couldn’t believe they thought I would go camping during the winter season. I wasn’t foolish, and I appreciated staying at the beach apartment and staying warm. Jack called when he got home and asked if I was sure I didn’t want to go camping? If there was an apartment with a fireplace or heating and A/C plan installed, I would go. I wanted to go ice fishing, but I didn’t want to sleep in the cold. I asked if they were going to have an apartment with a fireplace or heating and A/C system. He wasn’t sure, however he said there were portable gas furnaces they could put in the tent. I would still be asleep on the frozen ground and I didn’t want to wake up as a popsicle. I was going to stay at the beach apartment and watch it snow through our windows. I had excellent heating, and if they wanted to freeze to death, that was their choice. Jack asked if he could stay at our apartment over the weekend, as he didn’t want to go camping either, however he didn’t want to stay home alone. Both of his older sisters were going camping and I forgot Jack was only fourteen.

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When summer time was boiling and the temperatures were in the 90’s, I remember praying for the frigid snow to fall, as I had enough of summer and I was ready for winter.

• The air conditioning unit couldn’t keep up with the heat and humidity and it was miserable in our house.

Cold and snow sounded like a welcome reprieve. It is only the middle of September and it has been as frigid as mid-January for most of it. We had almost two feet of snow on the ground, added to the five feet of snow we had two days earlier. I was looking outside and thinking about how appealing the winter wonderland was, and then I remembered it wasn’t winter yet. We still had at least six more months of winter weather to get through. I wondered if someone was listening when I prayed for this weather and took me literally. My oil furnace had been cleaned and taken care of, but I wasn’t ready for winter. I would have enjoyed this weather for Christmas, as we would have pulled out our big sled and hitched the horse to it. The kids and my spouse and I would wrap up in blankets and turn on the space furnaces to keep our feet warm. All snuggled in the sled, we would ride across the fields to visit our dad and grandparents. This was one of the greatest joys of living in the country and the gas furnaces kept us fairly warm as we all sang on the way. I was hoping for that at Christmas, however not before Thanksgiving. I turned up the thermostat and sighed. Winter was honestly early this year and it was all because of me.

 

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