HVAC Repair Tips for Homeowners

My husband and I got married about two years ago, and this was his first summer living in southern US.

• We were only three weeks into the season, when my husband told me he wanted to go home.

He told me he was sure I would get use to the colder winters, and they had excellent heating systems up north. I tried to convince him that he would get used to the heat, but he never did. By the end of summer, he was pleading with me to please move back home with him. He told me they had air conditioning and heating up north, and the heating system was so good that unless I had to go out for something necessary, I wouldn’t even know how cold it was outside. My mother had already warned me that this could be a problem for us. He lived in the northern most part of the United States, and I lived in the southernmost part of the United States. We had met somewhere in the middle when we were going to college. I felt guilty, convincing him to move south so I could be closer to my parents, and he felt guilty trying to convince me that it would be better for him to move north. He wasn’t anxious to be closer to his parents, but he loved the weather. He kept telling me how much fun it was to go skiing and ice-skating. He talked about the polar plunges they would take on New Year’s day. Although I was skeptical about moving up north, Imy marriage was more important to me than fearing the cold, and worrying about the lack of heating.

 

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I love my brother, but an HVAC technician he isn’t. He started going to school for HVAC, but he quit after just a few short weeks. When I had to have a new HVAC system installed in our home, I chose a ductless HVAC. Although the instruction said it is possible to install on your own, it also recommended that the installation be done by professional HVAC technician. When my brother found out we were having a ductless HVAC system installed, he tried to coerce me into letting him install it. I bluntly told him that had he finished HVAC school, I would have no problem allowing him to install the ductless HVAC for us. However, since he chose to drop out after only a few classes, there was no way I was going to let him install my ductless HVAC. Being the mom’s boy he is, he ran straight my mother and told her how mean I was being. Mom called and asked me if I would please let him try to do the installation, and I told her no I told her how much I paid for the HVAC system, and I was not going to allow my lazy brother to even put his hands on the HVAC system. I do recall the HVAC company and had to technicians coming to the house to do the installation for as. I wanted to make sure the electrical wires were properly installed, and the indoor and outdoor unit were synced properly. I wasn’t going to end up needing to call the HVAC company to fix the mistakes my brother made just because mommy asked me to let him do the installation.

 

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My husband and I were constantly complaining about how hot it was. I talked to my husband about moving up north where it didn’t get so hot. He told me there had to be a better way to escape the heat. I wanted a new air conditioning unit. Ours had been in the house for almost twenty years, but my husband was a cheapskate. He didn’t want to spend money when he didn’t think it was necessary. When it was over ninety degrees for weeks at a time, I thought a new AC unit was a necessity. The coolest we could get in the house was 80 degrees and the AC unit was no longer ridding the house of the humidity, which made it feel even hotter. Last week, my husband brought him brochures that showed available homes for sale up north. I looked at the prices and told him it would be cheaper to buy the AC unit. He shrugged and tossed the papers in the trash. I wasn’t sure if he was being serious about moving until I heard him on the phone. He was talking to a realtor and was telling the realtor we couldn’t get there for about a week. He told me he had found a house in Maine, and he was fairly certain we could afford it. It was right by the ocean and the average summer temperature was in the low eighties. He didn’t ask about the average winter temperatures. I was wondering if we weren’t going to have more trouble staying warm than we were having staying cool here.

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My son came in and handed me the paper

My husband and I had been fighting so much lately that it was frosty in the house. Our air conditioning wasn’t working properly, and it was as hot and humid inside as it was outside. My kids were threatening to turn the furnace on because of how cold it was between my husband and I. We were blaming each other for the lack of air conditioning. I heard our oldest son on the phone, and instead of asking who it was, I told him to hang it up and go to his room. He finished his conversation and headed to his room. An hour later, there was a knock on the door. My husband told me he wasn’t expecting anyone, and I wouldn’t answer the door since he was closer. My son came out of his room and opened the door. He followed the man out and walked around to the side of the house. I was curious when I saw them in the backyard. I realized the man outside with my son was an HVAC technician. He was talking to my son and laughing, while checking on the air conditioning unit. An hour later, I saw the HVAC technician shake my son’s hand and take a piece of paper from him. My son came in and handed me the paper. He turned on the air conditioning and went back to his room. He handed me the bill for the air conditioning repair. I suddenly realized my son was being more adult than his father and I, and I was so proud of him.

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