Being prepared is something I prefer when it comes to dealing with life.
- Of course, this isn’t always a possibility but it’s the much better way for me indeed.
If I can make a plan, at least I have a structure and can be flexible a bit from there. But when it comes to the quality heating and air in my home, there really isn’t any room for flexibility. The way I view heating and cooling in my house is that it’s just quite essential. So I’ve never left the heating and cooling of my home up to a whim or any sort of chance. That’s meant getting heating maintenance on the HVAC equipment each fall. The spring, I call the HVAC company again to have them do the air conditioning tune-up prior to summer. I don’t leave the HVAC unit unprepared for the load it takes on with heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. So when the HVAC technician indicated that we should be watching for signs that the HVAC unit was about to die, I was already thinking ahead. When the HVAC unit turned 20 years old, I started putting money in an account to have ready when the time came. I just wasn’t going to wait for the the HVAC utility costs to spike or any of the other signs that my HVAC unit was about to drop dead. No, I met with the HVAC contractor the following week and got the process of putting new residential HVAC in our home rolling.