After buying a fixer-upper as a home, I knew I was going to spend more money on upgrades than I paid for the home! I was planning on installing new walls, ceiling, floors, appliances and bathrooms – and a new heating and cooling system.
I was ripping everything out of the house, and redoing it.
I couldn’t wait to start the work! As the contractor was working on the interior, I was talking to the HVAC dealer. When we ripped everything out of the house, we took the air ducts out. The air ducts were dusty and dirty. I knew they would need to be replaced, and I was looking into this. When the contractor showed up, he looked at this area, and tested out the rest of the space. Before talking about an air conditioner, he asked how many people would be living there. If we installed a new HVAC system, he wanted it to be able to last for over 20 years, regardless of how many people and pets were added to the home. He kept talking about a central HVAC unit. Why did it have to be a central system, I asked. I had heard about a heating and cooling system that used the ambient heat from underground, and a system that needed no air duct. Why couldn’t I have one of these? The HVAC contractor chuckled. He handed me the pamphlets he had brought with him and said he just hadn’t gotten that far yet!