HVAC Repair Tips for Homeowners

When we bought our home, I was drawn to the radiant heated flooring.

I had often thought about having it installed in our old home, but it wasn’t just expensive, but we didn’t have the floor space for the hot water pipes. When we saw this house, I couldn’t resist buying it.

My husband wanted to look at a few more houses, but I insisted. I knew what I wanted, and this house had it. There was radiant heated flooring throughout the house. It took less than six months before I realized that radiant heated flooring wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. Not only were the floors heated, but so was every surface in the house. Anything that touched the flooring was heated. The kitchen was the worst of all. The floors were heated, and that heat went up through the counter and heated my countertops; which happened to be marble. Marble countertops were supposed to stay cool to make for easier dough rolling. The dough would stay cooler and make for a better pie crust or bread. I did a lot of baking for the school, church, and for special occasions. I didn’t want my marble countertops heated. I asked my husband if there was someway we could turn off the heat in the kitchen and in the bedroom. He said he was wondering how long it was going to take before I tired of the heating system. It took less than an hour for him to call the HVAC company and make an appointment for them to turn off the heating in the kitchen and bedroom.

 

heat pump installation

We are in the slow time of the year in my town and a lot of the beaches are very empty now.

We used to have packed beaches a few months ago, but all of those people went back to their worlds for the winter once again.

I wish we had more volleyball during the winter but it seems that nobody wants to be out when it is this cold. Today I will do some HVAC equipment writing work for a few hours and then go out and see if I can drum up a game or two. I don’t know what everyone does when they don’t play volleyball during the day. We went from air conditioning to heating in a matter of a couple of weeks here. We used to be on the beach in the summer playing ball up until about 10:30pm, but now it is dark and cold by 5:30pm and it has been tough to adjust to it. I am trying to run my radiant space heater instead of my central heating device to save a little money. I have to really watch the energy usage as I am going home for the holidays and will need some spending money. I guess I could work for this new contractor some while home to earn a bit of cash, but I don’t know if his local business is even open during the holidays. I guess it will all be okay but I just feel kind of stressed out with the bills and all. Breathe in and breathe out, and relax.

Air vent

The past two years have been a real test of my sanity and my resilience.

I’ve been knocked down over and over by some pretty big life circumstances, yet I am still here.

I’ve pretty much lost everything you can lose in life; love, money, father, health. After losing all of that stuff I kind of hit this bottom where I have been bobbing around ever since. All of those hits can really put you in a dark place, and if you don’t handle it with grace and patience you can self-destruct. The heating supplier has been a true friend as she has kept me working and given me some kind of purpose during this tough period I am going through. She could have fired me as I was really not doing well each day at work, but she let me work on heat pumps in the back room while I listened to music. This seemed to have helped me get through the days as I was just in a zone doing the HVAC work. I could only imagine what would have happened if I lost that job in this time period, I probably would have ended up on the streets drinking myself to death. I’ll keep doing the heating and cooling repair work and somehow make it through this tough time and come out stronger in the end. I just don’t want to become jaded from all of this, as it has done with so many other people. I will go now and do this duct cleaning job then go to the beach.
Heating service

I’m sitting in my flat huddled under a pile of blankets trying to stay warm.

I want to turn on the central heating system but I can see dollars flying out of the vents while it is running.

It is really cold in the flat right now but I am a bit leery about turning on the heat because it just costs so much money to do so. I think I will allow myself two 15 minute sessions of heat per day and no more, because if I ran it like I did last year I would have a $1000 power bill for the two month period. I am better off lighting a fire in the kitchen and heating up the house that way. I was going to buy a small portable hydronic space heater and use it to heat up my office while I work, but I am not sure that the space heater would be that much cheaper to run. I guess wearing more clothes is the secret for now until I get a flatmate in here to help absorb the heating costs. It’s not much better in the summer with the AC and I am going to have to get a roommate if I want to stay cool then. I’m going to dig around town and see if any of the local businesses are hiring HVAC techs or someone who knows how to install ductwork or whatever. There must be someone hiring part time gigs and I guess I just need to get out there and hit the pavement to find out.
Heating contractor