About a week ago, I decided to have an HVAC expert come out to the house because I wanted to discuss what HVAC systems were available and if he thought it was time for me to upgrade my old HVAC equipment.
My wife said that the HVAC system was only 12 years old and it should last a little while longer, but I wanted to know for certain.
I realized that not all HVAC systems lasted the same amount of time depending on many different factors. One thing is how often the HVAC system has been maintained. If these systems are not kept up with, then they will fail prematurely. Of course, we always took good care of the system with regular maintenance, but I wasn’t sure how well the system was taken care of before we bought the house. So when the HVAC expert showed up, we talked about our HVAC and how it was running and everything. He inspected everything carefully. He said we had a few concerns. He spoke of the ductwork system first and how there were places were there were leaks. He said we could take care of all that with ductwork cleaning and ductwork resealing, but it would be kind of expensive. He said we had to determine if it was worth working on the ductwork. He said if we wanted to invest in another HVAC that used the ductwork, it would have to be repaired. Then he told us about other options like ductless HVAC systems. I was so interested in having an HVAC system with different zones and high energy efficiency. So we made arrangements to have a new ductless HVAC installed.