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It was a hot afternoon when the HVAC technician came to the house to inspect my furnace.

There was no airflow in our basement, and no windows to open.

The basement was dark and dank. After working in the basement for an hour, I thought he could use a glass of lemonade to wash the dirt from his throat and mouth. When I offered lemonade, he asked if he could bother me for a cup of coffee instead. He must have smelled the fresh coffee I had brewed. He handed me his coffee mug and said he drank it black. I thought he was presumptuous handing me his coffee mug, but I filled it for him. After telling me what he found with the furnace, he packed up his tools and put them in the service van. He said he would send a group of ductwork cleaners to the house the following week, and they would clean, repair, and sanitize the ductwork for me. He thanked me for the coffee and left. He left me with an odd impression, but I didn’t know if it was good or bad. A week later, the ductwork cleaners were at the house, and they were repairing a few small holes when the HVAC technician arrived. He had his coffee cup with him and said he had to apologize. He said he must have seemed rude to request coffee, but it smelled so good he couldn’t resist. He had apparently worked all night, and was using the coffee to keep him awake. I realized the HVAC technician was flirting with me, and I had to tell him I was engaged. If I hadn’t been, I would have flirted right back because he was adorable.

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The entire time my brother was in HVAC school, I never expected him to graduate, let alone become one of the best HVAC technicians in our area.

I would study with him every night and I was learning so much while studying with him that I chose to go to HVAC technical school.

He had such a difficult time trying to understand what he was reading, that I began giving him oral quizzes on what he was learning. We would go through the book with me reading to him and asking questions. After a couple of hours, he had everything imbedded in his brain, and he was able to focus on his class the next day. Once he got done with the book portion of his classes, he was doing fine, but he needed that little push while reading. When he came home one afternoon, he told me he passed his final exam, and his next task was to get his certification class and pass that exam. We had a long week of cramming for his certification class and taking the test. Although he knew all the answers on the HVAC test, he still wasn’t comprehending the reading part. I told him he needed to talk to the HVAC instructor and explain how he freaked out when he had to take tests. I said he needed to let them know that when under stress, he couldn’t remember what he had read, unless someone read it to him. He was far from illiterate, but his ADD would reared its head when he was reading something and had to remember it.
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One of these is always in my bedroom to keep me cool or warm as I’m sleeping.

I live in a rather large home for one person. From the very first month that I received my energy bill in this home, I have resented using my central heating and air conditioning system all that often. In fact, I simply prefer to use portable air conditioners or space heaters instead of running my central heating and air conditioning system. I might look into zone control heating and air conditioning in the future, but the truth is, using small portable units will probably save me money anyway. The idea behind using portable units or getting zone controlled heating and air conditioning is simple: why would I heat or cool the entirety of my house when I am only occupying one room at a time? It’s just a silly thing to do, especially when my home is so big, and I’m the only one that lives there besides my dog. I simply have bought two space heaters and two portable air conditioners. One of these is always in my bedroom to keep me cool or warm as I’m sleeping. The other one is either in the living room or the kitchen or some other room depending on where I have settled down at any given point in the day or night. I don’t really feel particularly uncomfortable by using these portable options. In fact, I feel very comfortable indeed. And I’m extremely comfortable with the fact that my energy bill is super low! Some people just absent-mindedly run their central heat or air conditioning for their entire house and they waste so much money and energy in the process, but not me!

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I have been sneezing a lot in my home lately.

I’m not entirely sure what is the cause of all the sneezing.

I decided to dust as many surfaces around my house as possible, thinking that it might be the dust everywhere in the air. Of course, I had to wear a mask while I was dusting, but I still ended up falling into fits of sneezing. It is true that I have issues with seasonal allergies, but I was beginning to think that the indoor air quality in my home just wasn’t very good. I decided to go online to search for remedies in improving the indoor air quality of one’s home. That’s when I discovered air purifiers. I only had a vague notion that there were devices that could purify the air in one’s home. Then I started reading about the different products that were available to purify the air in one’s home, and I got excited! I read further about dehumidifiers and humidifiers and how you are able to manipulate temperature, humidity levels, and the amount of irritating particles floating in your air to potentially have very clean and healthy air in your home! I also discovered that weatherproofing is another factor in making sure that your home’s air is as pure as it can be. Some people seem to think that opening their windows for fresh air is a good way to have air that is more breathable, but the truth is, that they’re letting in all those pollutants, and even when the windows are shut, if there are cracks and holes lining your doors and windows, then you’re letting all the dust and allergens float right into your house! I was definitely going to do something about the air quality in my home after finding out about all the resources at hand!
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We don’t have a very long cold season where I come from.

In fact, the temperature is quite high throughout the entire year.

From late April all the way through about half of October, it’s quite common for temperatures to be in the 80s, and sometimes in the 90s, or even the triple digits during the summer. That’s why I look forward to October and the fall in general, because it heralds a time in which the temperature finally dips down to a far more comfortable range. The humidity also decreases slightly. Though this time of the year is rather short, I am grateful for the chance for my air conditioner to not work as hard as it does for the rest of the year. I’ll set my thermostat to a certain temperature, and when I wake up in the morning to check it, I see that the temperature is lower than what I set it to. Pretty soon, as the weeks progress, I barely need to set the temperature on the thermostat at all, as the indoor temperature automatically becomes cool. I hardly ever use the heat, though occasionally, I might use it in the middle of the winter. Most of the time, however, I absolutely love the way my home feels without using any HVAC during the short, precious time between late fall and mid-winter. However, as the rest of the year requires an A/C for any measure of reasonable comfort, I always make sure I call an HVAC technician out for regularly scheduled maintenance on my HVAC system. I’m beginning to think I may want to live elsewhere, where the temperatures I enjoy in the fall and winter are more common throughout the year.

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I recently went out to visit my grandparents in the Southwest.

I grew up out there in the Southwest, where the temperatures can be extremely high in the summer. The heat is very oppressive out there and the dryness can be a hassle as well. My grandparents actually love the weather in the Southwest. I fear that they love it a little too much though. The reason I feel this way is that I recently visited them and discovered that they had been living without air conditioning in the middle of July for the past few weeks. I couldn’t believe that they were crazy enough not to call out the HVAC technician in the middle of June in such a hot and unforgiving place! At the least, they had some ceiling fans running and a few other fans blowing throughout the house. Grandpa had some sort of device in the bedroom running that he called a swamp cooler. It was an odd-looking, jerry-rigged piece of equipment that I admit kept the room pretty darn comfortable. I still insisted that they should call out an HVAC technician to get the air conditioner repaired immediately. I knew that my grandparents could afford simple HVAC repair. My grandparents are sitting on a decent chunk of change, after all. Admittedly though, that’s because they have been penny-pinchers their whole lives! Well, sometimes you need to live a little and splurge on basic comfort, like being cool in the middle of a desert in the summer!

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I understand the basic premise behind HVAC air filters, but there were quite a few things that I did not understand about HVAC air filters until recently.

One misconception I had is that an HVAC air filter has something to do with the air quality in your home.

HVAC air filters do not purify the air in your home at all. Instead, they are designed to keep your HVAC system itself clean. If the air filter for your HVAC system is dirty, it does not necessarily mean that the air in your home will become very dirty. What it means is that the internal components of your HVAC system will eventually get very dirty and break down, because the air within the system is not being properly filtered of all of those contaminants. Another thing that I did not know about HVAC filters until recently is that they are more effective based on how thick they are. For example, an HVAC filter that is a mere one inch thick may need to be replaced once a month or once every two months. On the other hand, an HVAC filter that is four inches thick may only need to be replaced twice a year, depending on the circumstances in the home. An air purification system or air filtration system for the indoor air quality of your home is an entirely different device that needs to be installed by a professional. If you are concerned about the air quality in your home, don’t look to your HVAC filter for answers, look to an air purification system. Your local HVAC company should be able to assist you.

 

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I live in a small apartment, but my rent is pretty cheap, and it’s a pretty decent place, so I don’t complain! My landlord is nearly always quick to deal with any issues that I have.

Any major repair problems I defer to him, because it is covered in my rent.

The problems I had experienced until recently were quite minor. I had a leaky pipe here and a frayed wire there. Nothing had been too serious. My heating and air conditioning set up consists of two window units. I have one window unit in my bedroom and I have another window unit in the kitchen. The kitchen window heating and air conditioner unit is powerful enough to keep the kitchen and the adjacent living room nice and cool or warm depending on the time of year. My bedroom unit is also quite capable of keeping my bedroom comfortable. One day recently, the bedroom window HVAC unit gave out on me. There was no prior warning; it just simply stopped working. I discovered that it wasn’t working shortly after I had gotten home from work in the late afternoon, so I knew I would be sleeping on the couch in the living room that night, because I couldn’t go without that coolness from the air conditioner. I called my landlord, but the call rolled over into his voicemail. I left a message about the faulty window air conditioner in my bedroom, and I was sure that he would get on it in the morning while I was at work!

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I rent a very nice house in a great neighborhood. I certainly hope to own a home one day, but I am still glad that for now, the landlord is the one that deals with the vast majority of issues that I face with the home. I do basic things like refill the water softener with salt and change the air filter for the HVAC system. I never really had a problem with the HVAC system until recently. I woke up one morning to discover that it was very warm in the house. I figured that my roommate had merely changed the temperature on the thermostat on me, but then I went to check it and I found that the cooling function was simply not working. At that point, I wasn’t entirely sure whether I should be the one to call out an HVAC technician or if I should have the landlord do it for me. I figured that if I called out the HVAC technician, then the bill might be on me, so I called the landlord first. He ended up being the one to call out for an HVAC technician. He explained that I had done the right thing by calling him first, because it was his responsibility to take care of any major HVAC issues. He did ask me if I had been changing out the air filters for the HVAC system regularly. I responded that I had been faithful to change the filters and I wasn’t sure what the problem was. The landlord reassured me that the HVAC technician would take care of the problem.
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There is a heating and air conditioning company in town that I have come to rely on for all of my HVAC needs for the past few years.

• I have to admit that I’m quite cynical, and I did not expect a brand new company in town to be able to deliver quality customer service, but I was very wrong about this.

It’s actually quite encouraging to see that many of the technicians are younger guys that have applied themselves to a very much needed craft and are very good at their job. I have been well taken care of these past couple years. It’s a good thing too, because I’m no handyman when it comes to heating and air conditioning maintenance or anything of the sort, really! In fact, one of their recent trips to my house concerned my thermostat. It was completely blank and not functioning at all. I even tried to switch out the thermostats batteries to no avail. I panicked and I called out the HVAC company. They said that there was a slight electrical problem that was making it difficult for the thermostat to communicate with my central heating and air conditioning system. They said it was a simple fix, but I’m so grateful for them because I wouldn’t know the first thing about how to get the HVAC system up and running again! Boy am I glad I have these hard-working HVAC technicians to rely on! I simply don’t know what I would do without them.

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