I’m not going through what my pal and I went through last year, and that’s not at all what I’m interested in one bit, but in our house, my pal and I are typically so eager to have the winter weather behind us, but and that makes sense given how cold it gets up here.
- The central a/c in our home consists of both a gas furnace and a heat pump.
It’s that sort of winter cold that my pal and I deal with… But as cold as it gets and as thankful as I am for the great heating comfort, it’s not all about the gas heater, then not by a longshot! Still, my pal and I get so happy when the Spring gets here that I have sort of forgotten the a/c service, but my superb friend and I do our best to get heating service in the Fall followed by an a/c tune up in the Spring. Again, I’m typically on top of the heating service however have been a bit hit and miss when it comes to the a/c tune up. And last year, I learned the hard way that an a/c tune up is just as important as the heating service. My superb friend and I have a short Spring that is unquestionably just an early Summer. So I reached for the temperature control to flip from heating to cooling thinking that would be that, and well, I thought the a/c sounded odd and that proved to be correct. The heat pump ran for an hour or so even though there wasn’t that much demand for cooling. Then, it made a hideous noise and shut down. After that was fixed by the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C professionals, to the tune of a few hundred bucks, I’m getting the a/c tune up done. I’m just not going to have a repeat of last year’s initial introduction to a/c.