Running my Zone Control Today in my Flat

I am going to just cool down my office today with the zone control HVAC system I have. It’s pretty neat that you can cool down one room in the house without needing to cool down the whole place. I guess the smart thermostat knows because of the sensors in each room telling it what the temperature is. I’m not exactly sure how it knows the temperature in each room but there must be some kind of sensor in the vents or something because I don’t see any other way it could know. I used it during the winter to heat specific rooms that I wanted heated and it did a great job of it. The HVAC company who installed it told me that they work very well at keeping each room the temperature that you want. I love how technology has made life easier in certain ways, for example my robot vacuum cleaner that cleans the whole flat without me doing a thing. I just need to clean its HEPA filter once a week, along with a few other parts on it that get dusty. It only takes me about a minute or two every few days with emptying the dust bin in it, besides that there really is nothing else to do on it. I plan to get an HVAC tune-up soon and am saving some money each week to do so. The store near me is going to do it once I pull the trigger. They have a great HVAC service team who will come out on a moment’s notice.

 

 

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Old Man Winter is Finally Losing His Grip on Us

So today is April 7th and I am living in a small southern Spanish beach town on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The weather has been cold here, about 55F during the day and maybe 45F at night, but it looks like today we are going to hit 74F. I can finally turn off my furnace and give my smart thermostat a rest for the first time in about six months. I am ready to go back home and visit my family for the first time in almost three years, jeez I miss my mom so much. I plan on helping her with her HVAC system by going to the local contractor and getting a cleaning kit for her central heat and air conditioning unit. We are going to tune it up and clean it while I am there because she doesn’t have a lot of money to get it done. I think she does have the money but she just wants me to help her do it so I am around more. I was a certified HVAC tech a long time ago so mom knows that I am totally capable of doing the job myself. I would love it if she cooked one of my favorite three meals she makes; stuffed pork chops, ham slab with noodles, or meatloaf. I would be happy to tune up her HVAC system if she made one of those meals. If she made all three of them while I’m back then I will do a full service job on her central heating unit.

 

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Visiting the Local Business Near Me to Chew the Fat

I am going to work today for a few hours and then go visit the local air conditioning business to hang out with the HEPA filter salesman to just talk.

I have been feeling a bit lonely and homesick as my girlfriend and I broke up months ago and I have no family here.

It’s just me and my HEPA-filtered robot vacuum cleaner in the flat now and it can get a little lonesome feeling when I start thinking about how empty my life feels. Things can change in the blink of an eye though and I am hopeful for better days soon. Going back to the USA in six days is going to be that blink, as long as I can survive the harsh HVAC system blasting cold air on me during the whole flight. I am still recovering from the flu so I don’t want to be cold for the whole nine hour flight so I will be dressed very warm. Once I land in America, in the deep south of America, I am going to have to shed the winter coat and replace it with shorts and flip flops. I will be happy to have the central AC unit blasting cold air on me then I’m sure. I’ll be there for a month so I will need a rental car and I am hoping the price to rent it is not out of my budget. I’m actually still running my furnace here overseas because we are still having cold weather, but I think today it is going to finally warm up.

 

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Traveling Back Home After Almost Three Years Away

All I want to do is give my mom a big hug and a kiss and tell her how much I missed her.

After my father died while I was away, I am left with just my mom now.

I know the plane will be ice cold with the air conditioner on full tilt so I plan to dress with my winter coat. I will need to get a rental car and hopefully they don’t kill me with the rates. I just want a car with cold air conditioning because it is going to be very hot when I get there. I am staying for free at my cousin’s house so that helps a lot, I’ll just need to cover the rental car and I’m set. I am going to help my mom buy a whole home air purifier when I am back because she has had a lot of allergies and I think it is coming from the dust in her house. She is with my stepdad, thank God, but he doesn’t know much about anything when it comes to working around the house. He tried to clean his HEPA filter one time but couldn’t seem to find where it was located. He is just an attorney and that is all he knows what to do, but he is a darn good attorney I must say. I am going to help them clean their HVAC system when I get back as a thank you for letting me stay with them for a weekend. We are going to watch movies and drink beer. I can’t wait!

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Ice Cold Hospital with The Air Conditioning Blasting

I just ran down to the hospital to take a quick coronavirus test and I think they had the thermostat set to “Snowing”.

I am flying in six days and if I tested positive then I would have to get a doctor’s note saying I am okay to fly.

Luckily, my test was negative. Now I am home again and I have my central heater on so I can warm up from that frigid experience. I wonder why they have to keep the hospital so cold? I have no idea but I do have a good idea that I am happy I didn’t become a doctor. I plan on cleaning my HVAC system today as it has been a long time since doing so. I had the flu, not Covid, a few weeks ago and it was one of the worst experiences with sickness I’ve felt in a long time. Covid is nothing compared to a bad flu. I was going to clean my ductwork a week ago but I was still coughing a lot and in no shape to be around dust and bacteria. I feel better now and should be able to clean everything, given that I wear a mask and make sure not to stir up a lot of dust when I am cleaning the vents and ducts. I have a washable HEPA filter so it isn’t a big deal removing the dust from it because I just put it in the dishwasher by itself and it comes out perfectly clean. I learned that trick from a YouTube video.

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