HVAC contractor took great care installing our HVAC unit

Building a house was as thrilling as I had hoped it was and yet it still held plenty of challenges that had to be overcome.

However, we really didn’t have the nightmare scenarios that so many of our friends warned us about. I can’t tell you how many horror stories I heard about building a house while inside the zone controlled HVAC at work alone. It’s like as soon as anyone I came in contact with found out that we were planning on building a house had something negative to add. This really didn’t deter either my wife nor I. Yet, all that feedback definitely put us on notice so we were extra vigilant about planning, preparation and execution. We kept a firm grip on the details so we didn’t miss anything. We even interviewed all the subcontractors. Since we were going with a rather unique HVAC unit, we also wanted to find the very best HVAC contractor we could get. The geothermal heat pump uses the near constant temperature of the earth to extract heating and cooling energy. It does this with a long tube filled with HVAC refrigerant that is buried underground. The installation of the geo heat pump is intricate and has to be done exactly right. It’s not something that just gets slapped onto the side of our home. Thankfully, we found just the right person to do the geothermal heat pump for us. The HVAC contractor we hired came in and did just an exemplary job of putting our heating and cooling equipment in our home.

 

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It’s summer but I’m already thinking about HVAC heating

I don’t think that winter is really ever totally out of my head.

It’s now mid June and the central air conditioning has kicked on in the house. That’s about as far away from winter as we get around here. But when you live in a region where the winter is brutal and lasts a minimum of five months, it tends to stick with you. For me, I’m already in prep mode for the coming winter and the air conditioning hasn’t even been on for a few weeks. But I live out in the country and I have a nice bit of land. That’s where I spend a lot of my time during the summer gathering firewood for the winter. We have great residential HVAC. The gas furnace does a great job of keeping us warm. But I also have a wood stove for supplemental heating and as an emergency heating source if the power goes out. Having a wood stove is great. I love the sort of heating it puts out. There’s nothing really quite like it. It has the cozy feeling of radiant heating but without the moisture. However, there is plenty of prep that goes into using a woodstove for heating in the winter. Not only is there all that wood to cut, split and stack but I act as my own chimney sweep as well. The gas furnace gets the HVAC maintenance it needs each fall but that’s not from me. The HVAC professionals trek out here to do the heating maintenance. That’s the last bit of winter prep I do. But I’ve got a long way to go before then.

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Honored to now have great new HVAC for my team

It’s not just the HVAC that changed when we reopened our offices.

We changed offices altogether.

When the pandemic hit, I had to close our offices and send the team home to their own air conditioning. Initially, I wasn’t so sure how long that would last. But after a month, I was pretty scared that I might not be able to keep my company together. It’s a small business that I started about six years ago. Having spent a dozen years inside the zone controlled HVAC of a corporate office, I wanted to continue in the field but under my own direction. That’s a big leap and we were profitable even before I had planned. But that early success was being threatened now that we found ourselves at home in the HVAC security of our homes. Yet the team was able to transition to working from their own air conditioning that I chose not to renew the lease on the office. I went from fearing for the solvency of our company to watching us continue to thrive from the safety of our air conditioning at home. It was quite remarkable really and it reminded me that I have such an incredible team working with me. So when all of us had been vaccinated and it was time to work together in person, I got a new office. This was a big upgrade as it had zone controlled HVAC. That was a major complaint we had about the old place. Now we had state of the art commercial HVAC in our offices and lots of other amenities. It’s a pleasure to add the best HVAC to our day and provide bonuses as a welcome back as well.

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No stress as the old HVAC unit gets replaced

I honestly just don’t know where my head was at.

There’s no doubt that I was fully aware of how long we’d been in our house.

Even if I didn’t know for sure, the kids were off to college so that might have been a clue. Still, I just didn’t think about the age of the HVAC equipment. Actually, I didn’t think much about the HVAC equipment at all. When we bought the house, the first thing we did was to replace the old HVAC unit. The final price of the home was negotiated heavily in our favor because we were willing to take on that heating and cooling project. That allowed us to upgrade a bit when it came to the sort of quality heating and air that we wanted. Soon after, we joined the HVAC service plan offered by our HVAC company. That took all the HVAC maintenance stuff off of us as they did all the scheduling and we just responded with our confirmation. The monthly air filter change became so routine that I’m not sure I was even associating that with the HVAC unit. So we were caught a bit off guard by the sudden demise of our HVAC unit. However, the HVAC company was right there for us and helped us make the change in heating and cooling. The HVAC contractor came to our house to inspect and to help us understand our residential HVAC options. From there, it was just agreeing to great finance terms and picking out the sort of HVAC technology we wanted. The rest was up to them and they made it all so totally easy for us.

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My first house and my own HVAC equipment

I don’t know which is more validating and wonderful. Owning my very own home is just awesome. But having the very latest in residential HVAC replete with all the trending HVAC technology could be better. That might seem strange given that a house is more than just the quality heating and air inside of it. But when you come from my perspective, heating and cooling comfort is a premium essential these days. I grew up in a house that had meager heating and cooling at best. College was all extreme radiant heating in the dorms in the winter with no HVAC cooling when it got warm. Then, it was the so totally mediocre heating and cooling of every apartment I’ve ever lived in. So when I was able to finally save enough for a downpayment on a house, the first thing I did was to replace the HVAC equipment. This had to happen anyway as the rest of the house had plenty of things that needed attention. But I wanted to really invest when it came to the residential HVAC. The HVAC contractor was so essential when it came to that and made the whole HVAC replacement process easy. I love the heating and cooling system I have in this house. The smart thermostat keeps the quality heating and air regulated perfectly. It adds to the efficiency that the high SEER rated HVAC equipment already has. I couldn’t be more proud to be a homeowner. It’s everything I had hoped it would be. But having this level of quality heating and air is remarkable.

 

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I own a small online news company and need IT plan service

It wasn’t until our senior year of high university that I seriously started considering the life of a news journalist someday. The people I was with and I had a university newspaper and I was jobed with doing many of the stories that ended up inside. While I entered the club with a sour attitude and assumed I would hate every minute of it, I left with a closer understanding of what I wanted to do in life. I also started to formulate a list of schools I could apply to that cover this education program. The first university that I wanted to attend didn’t have a journalism program. Imagine finding a superb liberal arts school in the same county as your hometown, only to find out that they don’t even have a creative writing or journalism program. My only option in that case would have been reading Russian, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, or American Literature. That’s not exactly the most conductive education for someone seeking a staff writer position at a city newspaper. Unluckyly, I had to attend a big state university instead. On the other hand, their journalism university got me a job right out of school. I worked our way through a series of positions until I went out on our own to create a small online news company that focuses on younger generations in this city… I have a few employees in our offices downtown. Right now I need serious IT plan service because I don’t have a dedicated IT person hired for continuous work. I also need to speak with someone about building plan integration so I can control our Heating, Ventilation, and A/C, lights, and security plan all within the same interface.

 

 

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I travel with my cat, so I need to find the best temporary housing option

My boss has been trying to get myself and others to travel to the other side of the country to supply training for the staff in our local office out there, then i have typically declined the offer mainly because I had young youngsters, which made it strenuous for myself and others to travel! But now that my youngsters are out of the house, I can travel more easily… However, the only concern I have now is that I have a pet that I would like to take with myself and others when I travel.

I could leave my pup with a family member, even though I will be gone for over 3 months at a time, and I don’t want to be away from my pet for that long. So, I told my boss that I will need to take my pet with myself and others & he did not hesitate at all. In fact, he instantly called the Admin & suggested that she find a rental that was cat-friendly for me… The Admin found this amazing 3-kitchen furnished house that is close to our local office. At first, I thought it was a trip rental home, but turns out that it was a corporate house that she rented. I typically thought corporate housing was just limited to apartments, I had no system that houses were used for corporate rentals as well. This is fantastic to know because it makes myself and others more comfortable taking my pet with myself and others when I travel! Not only will he have a yard to play in, even though I will have more space as well to invite the youngsters if they too want to visit.

 

 

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I won a raffle that they were holding at my son’s school

Back in the spring, I won a raffle that they were doing to raise money for my son’s school. I bought a few tickets, but I never really expected to win anything. However, I somehow ended up winning the grand prize! I was really surprised that I won because I never win anything. I honestly don’t think that I have ever won anything else in my entire life, even a game of Bingo. But somehow, the stars must have all aligned that day of the raffle drawing because I got the call that I had won the prize. I was even more excited when I found out what the prize was because I had won a brand new high efficiency heating and cooling system! This was something that I was in the market for anyway, but it was taking me a long time to figure out exactly what kind of HVAC unit I wanted. I really needed to get a replacement because our old central air conditioning system had stopped working and I needed a new one. This whole thing happened right around the time that the weather was heating up for the first time this year and I wasn’t about to wait until the heat of the summer to start looking for a new air conditioning. At that point, I was overwhelmed by the fact that new HVAC units were so expensive. I had no idea up until that point that they cost quite so much. Anyway, whenever I found out that I had won a brand new one by purchasing some $5 raffle tickets, I felt like I was the luckiest person in the whole world.
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There wasn’t any air conditioning back when I was in school

Back when I was in high school, which was almost thirty years ago now, there wasn’t any air conditioning in the buildings at all. I used to have to go to school whenever the temperatures outside were in the 90s. They never let us out of school due to heat advisories or anything like that. Kids these days really don’t know how good they have it. I know that just sounds like something that old people say, but that’s really how it is these days. I remember being so hot when I was in class in the afternoons that it was nearly impossible to stay awake after lunch. I hated the fact that there was no air conditioning in the school buildings when I was growing up. I thought that it was ridiculous that nobody had air conditioning in the schools down there in the south where I used to live. The temperatures are really awful during the summer and early fall in the south and people just don’t seem to understand the need for central air conditioning in schools. I don’t know why people seem to think that kids don’t need air conditioning as much as adults do. I always had a really hard time concentrating in school anyway, even when it wasn’t super hot outside. Having no air conditioning made it ten times worse and it was rough being in class. I’m glad that most of the schools around here where we live now actually do have air conditioning in most of the classrooms. It makes life much easier.

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Working on the top floor of the building is difficult in the summer

Working on the top floor of the building is difficult in the summertime.

Whenever I got a promotion a couple of years ago, I thought that working on the top floor was the culmination of years of dreams! I always wanted to work up on the top floor because that was where all of the head bosses worked.

I always wanted to move on up in the company, both literally and figuratively. Anyway, I got a rude awakening that first summer when I started working up on the top floor. I had never been up there during the summer before, and I did not realize that the temperature upstairs was so much hotter than the rest of the building during the summer months. It was really miserable during July and August. I think that there is something wrong with the ventilation system up there because the air conditioning just doesn’t seem to do what it’s supposed to do. But now that I have been up there a couple of years, I have learned a few tricks. Last summer, I brought in one of those little personal air conditioning systems to put on my desk just so I could try to keep cool. I don’t understand how the important people in the building walk around in three piece suits all day during the summer months. I think that it is still miserably hot up there, and they really need to have something done about the central air conditioning system in the building. You would think that they would try to make the upstairs more comfortable!

 

 

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