Scary how easy it was to save something like 20 percent on my heating costs this Winter.
And that’s not even factoring in how much heating costs went up this year.
Actually, the news that heating costs would rise in our area was what lit a fire under me to finally prep the house. You can’t grow up this far north without knowing all about prepping a home for Winter. So I definitely can’t use ignorance as an excuse. Fact is, I’m just too dang lazy when it comes to stuff like that. I’d much rather sit around the central air conditioning of my living room watching football. Watching a game between two teams I hate is preferable to doing household projects. Plus, I suck at household projects. I just didn’t get that gene passed along. My dad worked on everything in the house except for the heating and cooling equipment. So it’s sort of ironic that I actually did something for my home that benefited the heating and cooling equipment. I had also avoided doing the Winter prep because I figured it’d be hard to figure out and labor intensive. Again, that wasn’t the case at all. I was able to download a list from our HVAC company’s website that gave me explicit directions along with a shopping list. All there was to do then was to do it. It literally took me two weekends of working a few hours in the morning. That’s it. And I saved hundreds of dollars on heating costs because of that effort. Sounds like a pretty fair deal to me. I’ll be doing that every Fall from here on.
Heat pump install