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I called the HVAC company to repair a repair they had already done to my furnace.

• It was less than two weeks since the HVAC company had sent a technician to the house to take care of my furnace.

There was little airflow and the heat wasn’t reaching all the rooms. I knew there had to be a problem with the ductwork, but the HVAC technician told me I was wrong. After he left, I still had the same problem. I still didn’t have good airflow, and the heat still wasn’t reaching all the rooms. A week later, I called the HVAC company again. I told them I had the same problem I had been having a week earlier, and the HVAC technician told me I was wrong about it being an airflow problem. I was sure there was a blockage in the ductwork. The HVAC receptionist told me they could set me up with some ductwork cleaners and have them at the house in the next couple of days. I was sure this was going to be the answer to my problems. Although the ductwork was dirty, it didn’t solve the problem. A new HVAC technician showed up the following day. He checked the house and the ductwork, and asked if those rooms were additions, and I said yes. He said they were far enough away from the HVAC system, that the air couldn’t get to them. With the help of a few small blowers in the ductwork, he would get the heating and air conditioning into those rooms, and it wouldn’t cost much. He said I had already been given so many wrong answers, that other than for the fans, I owed nothing for his time.

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I used to think that HVAC technicians can be heartless. They don’t seem to care about their customers and what kind of needs they have. I had one man tell me that the HVAC technician left them without any heat at Christmas time. He told him he didn’t have the money to pay for the repairs and the HVAC tech left. I couldn’t believe anyone would be that heartless, but I heard other people tell the same kind of story. I met my husband when he was still at the HVAC technical school. He was the sweetest man, but I made him promise he would never leaving anyone without heat regardless of the situation. If he did, I wasn’t going to be with him. He said that the HVAC company didn’t work that way. They would make sure people were safe in their own homes and never left anyone without heat in the middle of winter. There were times when they didn’t repair air conditioning units if they had a large outstanding bill, but the HvAC company always tried their best to give comfort to people. He told me his dad once took window air conditioning units to a home when they were without air conditioning. Their AC unit broke and they were in the middle of a heatwave. He didn’t want them to go without AC and thought the window AC units would keep the house a little cooler than no air conditioning. He said he didn’t know of a single HVAC technician who wouldn’t go above and beyond unless there were extenuating circumstances.

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I was so angry at my fiance last week, that I was ready to break up with him. We had gone out for dinner, and he got a phone call while we were in the restaurant. He told me it was just business and he would take care of it when we got home. When we got home, he walked me to the door, kissed me good night, and left. He didn’t even wait to see if I got into the house safely. If I lived with my parent’s it would be a different thing, but we owned a house. He could have at least told me what was so important that he couldn’t unlock the door or at least wait to see if I had my key with me. I knew he was an HVAC technician and there were times when he had to go out at night, or in the middle of the night. He could have at least told me what was happening. He didn’t get home until almost 6 AM. He curled up in bed just as i was getting ready to get up for work. He apologized and said he was wrong for walking off like that but there was a problem at the hospital. The HVAC system in the neo-natal care unit had gone down. He wanted to make sure he got the HVAC system repaired before any of the babies were affected. I was okay with him going on an HVAC service call, but I wanted to know what would have happened if I didn’t have my house key with me. He told me I could always call him or go to his mom’s.

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My brother was always tinkering around with something. If it was broken; you knew he was going to confiscate it and try to get it working again. Not only did he try to repair things that were broken, but he also tried to make working things work better. Last week, he was playing with an air conditioning unit. Mom was going to throw it away, but he was sure he could make it work again. He went downstairs to look at another AC unit, and was down there for almost two hours. I was wondering if he wasn’t trying to work on the furnace. Mom had said she noticed an odd noise coming from it. Not ten minutes after he came back upstairs, the furnace died. Before anyone could say anything, he turned to mom and told her it wasn’t his fault the furnace died. He promised he had only been looking at the AC unit and never went near the furnace. Mom bit her lip to keep from laughing and asked if he was feeling guilty. She grabbed her cell phone and called the HVAC company. Surprisingly, they had someone at the house within an hour and dad didn’t need to pay after hour fees, which had him happy. When the HVAC technician looked at the furnace, he said he knew exactly what happened. He told my brother that if he was the one who changed the air filter, you never forced it in. If the air filter doesn’t go in easily, but snugly, it is either the wrong air filter or it is being inserted wrong. My brother had that guilty look again, because he was the one who changed the air filter.
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My wife and I live in an RV and we travel all over the country looking at different places.

We have visited lots of state and national parks.

We’ve been to all of the landmarks that you would find on a top 20 list. We settled down in a place where there is a lot of sun during the summer. Even during the winter months, the sun shines brightly every day and there are hardly any clouds in the sky. The sun can be a problem frequently. We are lucky that we don’t have to pay for electricity in the campgrounds where we stay, because it would cost a fortune to run the AC as frequently as we do. Last summer, there were temperatures forecasted to be 110° 3 days in a row and I knew it was necessary to block as much of the sun as possible. We used aluminum foil to block the sun’s rays. We placed the shiny side out so we could block the heat. It actually worked very well, but it looked horrible and we couldn’t see out of the windows at all. It felt like we were living in a dungeon. This summer I tried to install sun blocking window film. I purchased some cheap sun blocking window film from an online retailer. The place had several different colors to choose from. They also had decorative sun blocking window film that looked like stained glass windows. I chose a window film that is dark and is supposed to reflect 99% of the sun’s UV rays. I tried to install the sun blocking window film on my own, but I didn’t do a very good job. A few spots could be better.

 

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