So my wife and I sure had a surprise almost 18 months ago.
That was when we had the air conditioning tune up done early in the Spring.
That’s a wise choice around here given that temperatures in March can get to the upper 80’s during the day at times. So we’ve always scheduled the Spring HVAC maintenance early. But it wasn’t early enough as it turned out. The HVAC technician told us that he had real reservations about whether or not the heat pump would last through the Summer. That was a jolt. Of course, it shouldn’t have been since the heat pump was almost 25 years old. With all that HVAC maintenance, the heat pump was just never a problem and we simply didn’t think about replacing it. So we came into last Summer with a lame heat pump because we needed to save more money to replace it. We had to sort of organize a family meeting because we all had to do our part to help get the old heat pump through one more blazing Summer. That was going to be a tall order as we generally default to more air conditioning than less. We actually were cruising through July last year when my son bet me that it would last til October. That was too juicy a bet to resist and I took early September. Well, my son ended up winning the day on that one as that old heat pump actually lasted until we replaced it in November. That was one bet that I was quite happy to pay off.