Living, working and essentially not leaving my house for a year during the pandemic was an eye opener in more ways than one.
I guess all of those years of being at the office all the time sort of gave me a stilted perspective of my homelife.
My work demands a lot of hours inside the zone controlled HVAC of our office. That’s the way it is when you are responsible for an entire company. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. But leaving that zone controlled HVAC comfort to try and work from home was a big wake up call. All of us inside the house was an interesting situation. My boys are both highschool age and good kids. The woman I’m lucky to call my partner is lovely and exactly the right person for me. But I’d never experienced this much time inside with all of them and the dogs and cats before. It became pretty clear that I needed a place where it was quiet to work and to think. Unfortunately, that was a tough order to fill since there just wasn’t much room. I could take over the basement but that was a rec room really and I wasn’t messing that up. So I called the HVAC company to have them add a ductless heat pump to the attic. Our attic is finished and all it needed was some residential HVAC to be a serviceable space. Well that ductless heat pump made this space more than serviceable. Even though I’m back in the zone controlled HVAC of the office, I still use my attic space to be alone or just to be quiet.