When our Grandmother passed away she bequeathed the aged family lodge to me.
- This was a large deal, because the lodge was amazing, and it sat on three hundred acres worth of wild forest land.
This section was lush and thick of wildlife, perfect for any hunter or fishing fanatic. I remember going to the lodge while both of us were in the summers when I was kid, and how much fun it was exploring the woods of the foothills. I also remember how incredibly hot it got in the site, because it was so aged it had no air conditioner in it. The complication was that the lodge was so expansive that it would take an industrial sized Heating & Air Conditioning plan to manage the whole site. I went to the lodge with an Heating & Air Conditioning expert to do a walkthrough and a cursory inspection. The guy wasn’t there to labor on the oil furnace, just to evaluate the state of the lake house and what it would take to get it air conditioned. The final report was disheartening, to say the least. Since the lodge was not built with central A/C in mind there was no existing ductwork. The furnace was in the basement, attached to the baseboards with a series of heat registers, which would not be useful for an air conditioning system. It would be possible to install small ductworks on the ceiling of the house, but this would be obtrusive and ugly. Instead, the Heating & Air Conditioning expert recommended I buy a small, ductless air conditioner, which wouldn’t be enough to cool down the whole house, but would be better than nothing at all.