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I was looking to buy a cheap HEPA air filter to see if it worked in my furnace.

I knew they were expensive and I didn’t want to buy an expensive before I knew if it was going to work in my furnace.

I went to several different HVAC companies in my search for a cheap HEPA air filter, but everyone looked at me oddly. I finally had one HVAC technician give me one he kept in his service van, just to show homeowners how much thicker they were than regular air filters. He asked for my address and told me he would come to the house and let me see if it worked. Later that afternoon, I was just getting home from work when the HVAC technician arrived. I showed him to the basement, and he brought the HEPA air filter with him. He showed me the difference between my air filter and the HEPA air filter. He explained the reason the HEPA air filter was so much heavier was because it was made to attract more dirt and debris, and hold it. The furnace had to have special requirements if it was going to house a HEPA air filter. He said that most furnaces made more than ten years ago, would not be able to have a HEPA air filter installed without doing harm to the furnace. It wouldn’t allow enough airflow, and it would actually damage the component and cause more harm than good. I hated to admit he may be right, but I had to admit that what he was saying about the HEPA air filter made a lot of sense now that I saw the difference.

 

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My father ran the local HVAC company.

He was an excellent HVAC technician, but he was never serious.

It seemed that he enjoyed making people laugh and smile, as much as he enjoyed being an HVAC technician. A couple of weeks ago, he came home and he was telling us a story about one of his HVAC technicians. He said they had gone to a new customer who lived in the local haunted house. Since Halloween was rapidly approaching, some of the guys were telling him about the haunted house. They said none of them would go there, but since he was the new guy, he didn’t have a choice. The poor kid was so worried that he was shaking when he got out of the service van. A beautiful young woman came to the door and introduced herself, which put the you HVAC service tech at ease, but then he looked inside. She was heading for the basement, when a bat flew out and landed on the curtain behind him. He screeched when the bat came toward him, but he continued following her down the stairs. When he got to the bottom of the stairs, there was an old coffin propped up against the wall, and several smaller coffins lined up against another wall. She showed him where the furnace was and pulled the cobwebs away as they walked. No one told him it was the house they used for their Halloween party every year and it actually belonged to one of their HVAC technicians. He housed all the decorations for the local Halloween party in his basement.

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Ever since I got out of high school, I was trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life. I was only eighteen, and still had eighty percent of my life ahead of me, but people were pushing for you to be grown up at eighteen. I was walking down the street a few weeks later, and I saw a sign. The sign was actually the first time I saw hope for my future. I walked into the recruiting office and told them I saw their sign about joining the Navy and becoming an HVAC technician. The recruiter told me they needed HVAC technicians to work on the ships and submarines. They would do all the training I needed and by the time I was ready to get out of the Navy, I would have all the experience I needed to move into an HVAC company and start my civilian career. I signed up that same day, and all I had to do was go home and tell my parents what I had done. My dad was proud of me, but my mom burst into tears. She didn’t want me going into the Navy or any other part of the armed forces, but I had made my decision. I was going to go to school for HVAC, get a career started while in the Navy and eventually I could work in any HVAC company I chose. She cried for two days, but eventually she realized it was my life and I was old enough to make my own choices. I joined the Navy and I was going to be an HVAC technician on a submarine.

 

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When the HVAC technician arrived last week, he had a young man with him who he introduced as being an apprentice in the HVAC company.

He was supervising the young HVAC technician during his first couple weeks with them.

When they got down into the basement, I was curious about what kind of supervision the young HVAC tech needed. The older man was telling how to check certain components and told him to go ahead and finish the inspection. I was getting ready to walk away when I heard him ask how many times he needed to tell the kid how to do the job? The kid said he had only done it three times, and the next question was if he he had done during HVAC technical school. He admitted he had serviced several furnaces while in school, but none of them were real working furnaces. They were furnaces that were brought into the school for them to work on. I could tell the older HVAC technician was trying to be patient when he said they would walk through the process one more time, but he had other jobs to get to. The next thing I knew, I heard a tool hit the ground and the younger HVAC tech was coming up the steps. He said he had it with the job, and he wsn’t cut out to be an HVAC technician no matter what his father said. I heard the older HVAC tech yell up to him. He told his dad he wasn’t him, no matter how many times he tried to be. He wasn’t meant to be an HVAC technician.

 

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I called the HVAC company last week, because I wanted my ductwork cleaned.

My wife was seeing a lot of excess dust in the house, and with Christmas coming, we wanted the house to look and smell clean and fresh.

I told the person at the HVAC company that I wanted to get the ductwork cleaned, and the next thing I knew, they were talking about furnace service and repair. I had my furnace serviced two months earlier, and it was working well. I just wanted them to get rid of the dust in my house. She scheduled the ductwork cleaning, and said the HVAC technician would be there the day before the ductwork cleaners. I tried to tell her I didn’t need an HVAC technician, but she hung up before I had a chance. Tuesday morning, the HVAC technician showed up and said he was there to service my furnace. I told him he had already serviced my furnace a month earlier. He thought he remembered being here, and asked if there was a reason they had sent him. I told him I wanted the ductwork cleaned because of all the dust in the house. It would soon be Christmas and we had a lot of company coming. He said he would make sure the ductwork cleaners examined the ductwork for possible repairs, but other than that, as far as he was concerned, he was never there. I was glad he was being so nice, because I couldn’t afford to pay for HVAC service, when I hadn’t called to have it done.

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