Having worked for so many different places of business, I have come to learn what I want when working as an employee. I’ve made a lot of good friends over the years too, and I think we can all agree that one of the most important things is having a comfortable work environment. I have worked in places that had the most terrible air quality and total lack of good climate control. Those places, I didn’t stick around for long because I just couldn’t handle it. As a matter of fact, businesses that operate like that tend to have a high turnover rate because most people don’t want to stick around. Now, I have also been in places that are just okay, and others that are downright enjoyable. The best places were mainly in office spaces where they had regular cleaning services and HVAC services from the local contractors. When they focus on keeping a clean environment where you can easily breathe, you feel appreciated and you can work harder. In other places, it becomes challenging to do good work when you’re breathing in all the dust that is floating around. I’ve worked construction jobs as well and most of those jobs were tough too. I would be in my car for AC breaks all the time and I had to make sure my car AC was maintained regularly. One time, we had a boss who provided a tent and rented a powerful cooling system to keep us all cozy and relaxed. He also provided ice-cold drinks while we worked. Now that was a thoughtful boss and there should be more employers like that.
It was about time for a decent HVAC system upgrade
After a long time of just having common heat and AC products in our home, I realized that we could use an upgrade.
- We never really had any serious issues with our heating and cooling equipment, but they weren’t anything impressive either.
We were using an old dial thermostat and a 17 year old HVAC system that was not very energy efficient. I was thinking I might as well let it keep running until it stopped working, but the HVAC professional advised against that. He said there were more modern and energy efficient options that I should consider because that way I could save a great deal of money on my energy bills. The HVAC expert spoke of a few different options we could go for like radiant heated floors, ductless HVAC systems, geothermal, and a few other interesting options. After discussing everything with my wife, we decided that it would be nice to go for a ductless multi-split system along with radiant heated floors for the cold winters we have around these parts. We spoke of how we were only getting older and it would be nice to feel cozy in the winter for a change instead of feeling cold drafts and having uneven temperatures in the household. The upgrades were carried out and we are very pleased with the results. Now we have multiple zones in our home with customized temperature control settings. You know, we used to fight over the temperature control settings at times, but now it’s so convenient with the different zones. There is no more fighting about that. Also, we can’t wait for the winter to arrive so we can enjoy our new radiant heated floors!
I got my wife a couple of ice vests to provide her cooling while out in the hot weather
They make it feel like you are receiving air conditioning the whole time
When coming into the spring season this year, it almost feels like we skipped spring and went straight to the summer. I mean seriously, just the other week it was in the 30s and 40s and then the temperature leaped all the way up to the 70s and 80s. I mean, the temperatures drop to around 50 some nights, but it still gets so warm in the day! My wife has been outside working in the warmer temperatures though mostly working on her gardening. Because it was so hot, I kept telling her to come in from time to time to enjoy some air conditioning breaks. The AC system we have is highly energy efficient and it keeps the house perfectly cool. I feel terrible when I’m in the house with such good air conditioning while she is out slaving away in the garden and feeling overheated. I realized if she were to collapse from heat stroke or something, it would be my own fault. So I found a solution in the form of a couple of ice vests that provide cooling. I got two of them so she could rotate using them while the other was in the freezer. She could do this in between coming in and out of the house. The ice vests basically have to be kept frozen and they have special gel pockets that remain frozen for a long duration of time. The frozen gel pockets provide cooling while you are working outside in the hot weather. They make it feel like you are receiving air conditioning the whole time. When she first wore the ice vest, she was amazed. She said she didn’t even need to come back inside for AC breaks because she was so comfortable.
I had a bad headache and forgot all about the HVAC maintenance appointment
He noticed that my air filter hadn’t been changed in awhile.
The other day, I had such a terrible headache. It was so bad that I had to lay down for a little while and I ended up falling asleep. The next thing I knew, there was somebody knocking on the door and that woke me up. So I got up and went to the door with my headache still pounding away. It was an HVAC professional and he said he was there for my regular HVAC maintenance appointment. I honestly had forgotten all about it even though I scheduled the appointment earlier in the month through an app with the company HVAC maintenance plan. I thought it was convenient to go this route with my HVAC maintenance, especially since I can be so forgetful with things. Well, apparently they sent reminders about the appointment to my email, but those emails were buried in my spam folder! I told the HVAC guy I wished he would have called and he told me he did. He said he called before he was on the way and he even left a message on my voicemail. Sure enough, there was a missed call when I was sleeping earlier. I apologized to him and showed him to the HVAC system. He noticed that my air filter hadn’t been changed in awhile. I told him I forgot all about it. He let me know that I should think about installing a smart thermostat too because that would help lower my energy bills and send me reminders to change my air filters. He said either that or I could always upgrade my HVAC maintenance plan to include air filter changes. I thought that was a good idea, so I went for the upgrade and he changed my air filter for me right then and there along with all the normal maintenance services.
Had an Heating in addition to Air Conditioning professional come out to discuss if we should substitute our Heating in addition to Air Conditioning
About a week ago, I decided to have an Heating in addition to Air Conditioning expert come out to the house because I wanted to discuss what Heating in addition to Air Conditioning systems were available in addition to if he thought it was time for myself and others to substitute our old Heating in addition to Air Conditioning equipment.
- My partner said that the Heating in addition to Air Conditioning plan was only 12 years old in addition to it should last a little while longer, however I wanted to think for particular.
I realized that not all Heating in addition to Air Conditioning systems lasted the same amount of time depending on several different factors, however one thing is how often the Heating in addition to Air Conditioning plan has been tested. If these systems are not kept up with, then they will fail prematurely. Of course, we constantly took great care of the plan with common repair, however I wasn’t sure how well the plan was taken care of before we bought the house. So when the Heating in addition to Air Conditioning expert showed up, we talked about our Heating in addition to Air Conditioning in addition to how it was running in addition to everything. He checked everything carefully. He said we had a few concerns. He spoke of the air duct plan first in addition to how there were locales were there were leaks. He said we could take care of all that with air duct cleaning in addition to air duct resealing, but it would be kind of high-priced. He said we had to determine if it was worth working on the air duct. He said if we wanted to invest in another Heating in addition to Air Conditioning that used the air duct, it would have to be repaired. Then he told us about other chances enjoy ductless Heating in addition to Air Conditioning systems. I was so interested in having an Heating in addition to Air Conditioning plan with different zones in addition to high energy efficiency. So we made arrangements to have a new ductless Heating in addition to Air Conditioning installed.
Our cats seem to enjoy the new set up at our new arena
The people I was with and I have a couple of cats as well as of course, taking care of their animal boxes has regularly been something of a pain. Of course, the two of us enjoy our cats so it’s just something that the two of us do for them as well as the two of us make sure they eat well as well as regularly have fresh water to drink. In our past home, the two of us had the animal boxes set up in the basement. It was regularly fairly cool in the basement even when the AC program wasn’t laboring. Of course in the Wintertide season, the two of us had to keep the basement warm by using the ventless gas heating system down there. Every year the two of us would have the Heating & Air Conditioning professional take care of that heating system by giving it a wonderful cleaning as well as a tune-up, as well as he also diagnosed the central Heating & Air Conditioning respectfully as well. Well, now the two of us have sold that home as well as moved to a condo in the country. This condo is rather sizable as well as the Heating & Air Conditioning situation was quite different. There were a bunch of window AC units in weird rooms, however the heating program was easily nice. The condo was already equipped with a nice boiler program as well as all the piping as well as radiators were in wonderful shape! For the AC though, I decided to remove all those window AC units as well as put them in storage while an Heating & Air Conditioning professional installed a ductless multi-break Heating & Air Conditioning system. The people I was with and I also had to figure out what to do with the cats. The people I was with and I ended up using a sizable closet off the hall for the cats to have their animal boxes as well as food. It’s easily a wonderful spot for them, because you can hardly even smell the animal boxes, you just have to check on them respectfully as well as make sure the cats have food as well as water, however they seem to appreciate the condo just as much as the two of us do.