Working down at the zoo has been really difficult for me over the past few weeks because the heating system has been on the blink for some reason.
- We have never had any problems with the heating system at the zoo the whole entire time that I’ve been working here and so it’s a whole new issue for me.
Since I work on the maintenance crew, it’s really been causing some challenges for my team. We know the basics of the heating and cooling system at the zoo, but none of us are actually HVAC professionals or anything like that. We know how to change air filters and do basic maintenance and repair work, but none of us are really qualified to do any extensive repairs. You wouldn’t believe how many different heating and cooling systems there are all around the zoo. That’s because the different animals all have different needs as far as their exhibits go. Some of them need to have the heating running all the time and yet others need to have the air conditioning going year round. It’s definitely a challenge for us when something goes wrong with any of the HVAC systems around the zoo. Since we started having trouble a few weeks ago in the elephant exhibit with the heating system, we have actually had to have our commercial HVAC contractor out to the zoo a number of times. There’s a major issue with the heating in that section of the zoo, but hopefully they will have it fixed completely in the next day or two.