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Little changes make a big difference.

Whether it’s changes to your lifestyle or changes to the HVAC equipment, little details really do matter. I know because I’ve seen this firsthand with both my health and wellness along with a small HVAC equipment upgrade. As for my health, it really was about all the little changes. Every other time that I wanted to get in shape, I went at it as though all it was going to take was a month to get the right results. Well, it took decades of sitting too much inside the air conditioning and eating whatever I wanted for me to put that weight on. So it wasn’t like I was going to change that in a month. Yet, that’s just how I approached it. Two years ago, I finally decided to fully commit to a complete lifestyle makeover. And that started with reaching out for help. And what I learned was that it’s all the little decisions you make throughout each day that actually make a difference. The more good decisions I made, like standing at my desk inside the zone controlled HVAC, the more good decisions I wanted to continue to make. At some point, it gets a sort of momentum of its own and real change happens. Another small decision I made concerning my health had immediate results though. I wanted to improve the indoor air quality for my respiratory health and to strengthen my immune response. Well, all I had to do was replace the cheap air filters that I had always used and insert a HEPA filter instead. That little detail has made such a dramatic effect on the indoor air quality of the house. Little details and daily decisions really do make a difference.

 

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Tight budget means lower air conditioning demand

So here we are. After talking about it repeatedly as a family, the time for execution of our air conditioning strategy is upon us. Well, we did the first two steps this Spring so getting started isn’t the right sentiment. We are now to the point where the Summer heat and humidity are for real and the hardest part of the plan begins. The Spring stuff wasn’t too bad when it came to adopting a new approach to cooling our house. We started the new air conditioning plan with an air conditioning tune up for the heat pump. This way, we’ll be operating at max efficiency. And this Spring, we decided to leave the cooling off as much as possible so we could acclimate to the rising temperatures over time. Simply put, we just had to save money on the air conditioning in our home. Perhaps we are the outliers but the couple of years of inflation have hammered our family budget. We are not the sort of folks who simply live paycheck to paycheck. Each month, there is a certain number that goes into savings or investments. But with inflation and no rise in pay, we had to really address some cost cutting. Of course, one of the higher fixed costs for us as a household are costs associated with air conditioning. We have a history of just doing whatever we want with the thermostat setting all Summer. Well, not this year and that’s going to be the toughest part of the year. Yet, we can deliver on disciplined thermostat control. I’m convinced of it. Our target is to shave 20 percent off the utility cost that comes with cooling our home From mid May through mid October.

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Let the HVAC company handle it all

Too often, I’m convinced that knowing just a little bit or the very basics of something gives me massive insight.

  • That’s generally not how it works.

This is certainly not the sort of behavior I display while working inside the zone controlled HVAC of the office day in and day out. I perform massive due diligence on just about every decision, recommendation or investment that has to do with the business. So why would I think meeting with an HVAC contractor once would make me think I knew something about HVAC equipment. Again, this is a case of me being absurdly overconfident with absolutely no reason to be that way. We recently had to replace the HVAC equipment in our home. So of course, my wife and I met with the HVAC professional to talk about our next residential HVAC. It’s not as though we have weird or unusual heating and cooling demands. That’s not the case at all. Still, it was nice to speak with an HVAC professional who asked specific questions about what we wanted in quality heating and air. But I also had an ulterior motive to all of this. I was trying to glean information so I could find the HVAC equipment online for a vastly discounted rate. And then just have the HVAC professionals install it. And this is just the approach I took. It took me nearly a month to find the deal I wanted but when I did, I snapped it up and had it shipped to my house. The thing is though, I just bought a piece of HVAC equipment that won’t fit the air volume in my house. How’s that for cleverness?
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Putting HVAC chores on the list

My to-do list is on my phone though.

I can remember how my dad always had stuff inside the breast pocket of his shirt. The man always, always, always wore a shirt that had some sort of pocket on it. And in that little pocket there was a variety of things. Definitely a tooth pick and definitely his to do list. Sometimes, maybe even a piece of gum or a mint for his son. These days, I’m now echoing dad’s to-do list and my residential HVAC chores are on the list. Okay, so I don’t wear any sort of shirts that have a breast pocket much. I work from home so I typically wear golf shirts and shorts inside the central air conditioning of my home. The tidy golf shirts are nice enough if I have to jump into an online meeting. And nobody can see my shorts. In the Summer, this is required attire because it gets so dang hot down here. For sure, I didn’t move here because of the heat. But if I have to deal with a furnace in the Summer for the other 8 months, that’s a deal I’ll continue to make. Yet, I have to get better at being consistent with my HVAC chores. And that’s why I have instituted the dad to-do list in my life. My to-do list is on my phone though. And it’s a talking list because I have alarms that let me know when it’s time for me to do a particular thing. Once a month, I hear it talk to me to remind me that I have to change the air filter. Now I just need to change the alarm sound to my dad’s voice and I’ll be all set.

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Looking for the right air conditioning system

I’ve been going to see the local heating as well as A/C dealers lately because I am looking to get an air conditioning system.

However I am not looking to just get any kind of air conditioning system, I really want to get the air conditioning system that I know is going to be right for me.

Unluckyly, I am not quite sure what that is as well as so I think I am just going to have to look around at all these different cooling units to see what I feel would fit me best. However the more I found myself looking at all the different heating as well as A/C products on the shelves the more I found myself becoming more as well as more confused because there were just so numerous different cooling systems to choose from. They were at all different price ranges as well as they all provided their own individual pros as well as cons. How was I ever going to choose? That is when a helpful heating as well as A/C worker came up to me as well as he asked me if I needed any help as well as I told him I did. I told him what I was looking for as well as he was able to supply me many recommendations based on what I was wanting in an A/C system. I walked out with a ductless mini split A/C that afternoon. I am really thrilled that I came across that heating as well as A/C worker because if I hadn’t I don’t know if I would have been able to ever decide what kind of cooling system it was that I was wanting to get. There were just too numerous to choose from, either that or I was going to have to do a lot of research online which would have been much more time consuming. I’ll admit I am a little lazy, I would rather have a heating as well as A/C guy tell me what would absolutely labor best then do hours of research on heating as well as cooling systems.

 

 

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I'm excited for the up-to-date HVAC business

I’m excited for the brand up-to-date heating as well as A/C contractor that has arrived in town.

I live in a small neighborhood as well as my friend and I don’t get a lot of up-to-date dealers that open up really often as well as so every time my friend and I do it’s consistently exciting.

The building has already been built as well as I have a sign out front that says their first opening is going to be on Monday. I decided to show up on Monday to see their first opening as well as congratulate them and go inside as well as see what kinds of HVAC products they provided for sale. I was really surprised when I saw that there was a big crowd that was gathered outside of the heating as well as A/C contractor on Monday. They were not even open yet as well as yet they were already pretty popular. I am sad to say that before this heating contractor my friend and I didn’t even have a HVAC contractor in my small town. I consistently had to go to the village to get heating as well as A/C products. I could not even really order them online because I live in such a rural part that it’s hard to get packages out here. So every time I wanted to go as well as get really anything I consistently had to go to the city. Well I am still going to have to travel to the village to get other items but I am not going to have to go there anymore to get heating as well as A/C products, but now that this heating as well as A/C contractor has opened up in my neighborhood I’ll be able to just walk straight from my house over to the HVAC contractor to get a brand up-to-date air conditioning system if I need one. I am super excited about it.

 

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