We’re going to be super easy on the heat pump, seal up the house and pull the drapes to stop direct sunlight heating
I was so caught off guard this spring when the HVAC professionals visited to do the air conditioning tune-up. Where we live, you better have some good HVAC cooling or the summer is going to straight work you over. This is why we get the HVAC maintenance done each spring. Since the heat pump doesn’t really get much work during the winter with the heating, I haven’t been as consistent with heating maintenance. That finally caught up with me this spring. Had I gotten the HVAC heating maintenance, I might have had enough time to save up and get a new HVAC unit. But I found out in April that the heat pump might not be around too much longer. Really, I should have seen this coming a mile away. It’s not like the heat pump wasn’t more than twenty years old. We had this heating and cooling equipment put in when we bought the house before the girls were born. So our choices were to either deal with financing now on the a new heat pump or roll the dice. We chose to roll the dice. This actually might be a good thing because we’ve never really committed to good thermostat discipline. And this summer, we’re going to have to be all about it. So, I’ve figured out how to program the digital thermostat so the house will be in the mid 80’s during the heat of the day. We’re going to be super easy on the heat pump, seal up the house and pull the drapes to stop direct sunlight heating. And we’re going to pray that we get through September with an old, probably worn out heat pump.