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Can’t complete one project before the next (smart thermostat)

I never realized how hard it would be to love someone for a lifetime.

I know that relationships are hard, but it seems like my relationship with my indoor air temperature control unit is the cause for a lot of battles with my wife.

Now, hear me out, I love my lady… but I also want to divorce her more often than not. Especially when she gets too wild about changing our house with expensive renovations. I appreciate the excitement, but she gets very unrealistic about what we can viably change in one season. This is especially the case with our heating, cooling, and ventilation system. For the past five years, it seems like she is always going online to poke at the boiler system or watching YouTube videos to better understand the air conditioning system. I generally have no idea what she is doing to our indoor air handling devices, but recently I learned she had big plans for the heating, cooling, and air quality control devices. She started manically talking about installing new mini split ductless heating and cooling solutions for our bedroom one day out of the blue. Now, I’m not against the idea of ductless air handling systems, but I felt like we should hold off on the new air temperature control investment until we first see how the other recent HVAC renovations have worked out. We just got a smart thermostat installed about a week earlier. We had no idea if our indoor air quality or energy efficiency had already been improved. We haven’t even finished programming the temperature control device. Meanwhile, my wife was apparently obsessed with the idea of even more brand new HVAC devices installed. Why is marriage so hard?

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Home sellers replaced HVAC… with units that were too small

I absolutely hate the process of looking for a new place to live.

If you’re anything like me, you find the entire ordeal very stressful.

For many years I have avoided the whole house hassle. However, I realized that it was finally time to pull the trigger and get myself a permanent place to live. I decided to start looking for houses a few months ago and I was overjoyed when I had some immediate success. It didn’t take long before I had found an amazing house and put down an offer. After that, things didn’t get very easy. I had a lot of challenges negotiating the closing details. In the end, I asked that the sellers replace the central heating, cooling, and air quality control system. I wasn’t a fan of the old forced air furnace and air conditioning unit that they had installed. Both of them were at least 15 years old so I was expecting to need professional heating and cooling upgrades almost immediately. Obviously, this air temperature control problem was a major deterrent for purchasing the house. Thankfully, the sellers agreed to replace the central heating, cooling, and ventilation system. Before the closing date they were required to have a professional HVAC dealership perform the forced air furnace and air conditioning units upgrades. The sellers followed through with the heating and cooling changes. However, when I moved in it seemed like the air temperature fluctuated a lot. My energy bills were always very high. When I eventually called the heating and cooling company for help, they told me the reason. The HVAC system was replaced… With air handling units that were too small for the house.

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Kids and pets make my job harder

I always knew that being married would be difficult. However, I never realized that it would be such a thankless obligation each day. I guess that things really changed with my husband and I when we had children. Earlier in our marriage, we had a pretty blissful partnership. Then we brought some little rugrats onto the planet and everything fell apart. I found myself trying to balance two dogs and two kids along with my job and household responsibilities. I’ve got to tell you, this viral pandemic has not made things any easier. As if it wasn’t difficult enough to work from home, I also have to keep up with the children who are ruining the house 24/7. These kids are such disasters that I even have to arrange more professional heating, cooling, and air quality control appointments just to keep up with their destruction. My little monsters are so dirty that they introduce a lot of excessive dander, dirt, and dust into the air. Since we had children our air filters have needed to be changed every two weeks. We often have to arrange professional heating and cooling appointments for routine things like air duct cleaning and air conditioning maintenance. I feel like the kids produce so much extra heat that our thermostat works overtime to keep up with our air temperature management. My concerns aren’t limited to the children, because the dogs contribute plenty of fur and filth to the air quality as well. If we didn’t have all of these beasts running around the house I think our energy bills, HVAC service fees, and mental health would be greatly improved.

 

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Nothing worse than a malfunctioning bathroom fan

A few years ago I had a lot of digestive problems.

Normally when people say this, they are trying to politely indicate that they have some leaky pipes.

When I say it, I’m trying to tell you that my pipes get clogged up and I can’t seem to clear them out. I never knew what the problem was with my digestive issues and no doctor was capable of helping me. For years I struggled with my poor body quality and dietary challenges. And then, I finally realized that I had a lot of poop anxiety. I simply freaked myself out and stalled things out with my neuroticism. That being said, you can imagine what kind of issues can be created by a simple HVAC failure in the bathroom. I’m not normally an air quality fiend, but have you ever tried to sneakily use a restroom without a working ventilation fan? Let me tell you, if I don’t have an overhead ventilation device nothing is going to happen for me. I seriously can’t make myself go unless there is a high-powered circulation fan in the area. The background sound created by the ventilation device really calms me down. Additionally, knowing that my airborne odors are being effectively removed from the air helps me chill out quite a bit. If I ever wander into someone’s restroom and find that the air quality control device is not working, I have to leave immediately. Of course, I never want to tell them that their lack of smelly air ventilation is the cause for my departure. Awkward. I would rather go home to my own ventilated bathroom than stop up my digestive system again.

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Try out my climate, see what you think

temperature range is important to me and I’m not going to change

I think that it’s extremely difficult to find a good partner these days. At least, this has been my experience in the last few years of time and date as an adult. It doesn’t help matters that I live in a particularly challenging place. Don’t get me wrong, I love the climate in the area where I live but the social situation is very different. I don’t get along with most of the people that I interact with on a daily basis. That being said, I have started using dating apps with my eyes on other areas. It’s helpful for meeting people, but the distance always becomes an issue. I just want somebody to come down and experience my amazing outdoor air temperature before they cut the cord. I know that distance is a major concern, but so is air quality. In my opinion, the place where I live has the optimal outdoor air temperature and air quality all year round. There is little humidity in the winter but it is extremely warm. During the summer the temperatures are rather high, but you can circumvent your discomfort with an air conditioning unit. I particularly love the fact that I only need to worry about a cooling system because my furnace is not going to be used very often. It is definitely the superior way to live if you care about your energy bills and outdoor climate. temperature range is important to me and I’m not going to change. When I meet guys who live a few hundred miles away, I just start talking about my air quality and HVAC system. Surprisingly, no one has come down to see either.

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Boyfriend chooses radiant heated floors over me

Sometimes I wonder how I managed to date such losers.

I always find guys who seem like they have everything together and I start feeling a bit insecure around them.

When they are talking about their level of success and dedication, I can’t help but feel like I am incapable of keeping up. However, after a few months I always see the cracks in the facade and slowly realize that I am dating man-children. This is exactly what just happened again with my most recent boo. Everything was chugging along very nicely… Until he just dropped off the face of the Earth. It took many weeks to find out what had happened, and the answer was definitely not satisfactory. Apparently, he has decided that he wants to install radiant heated flooring throughout his house. Because he wants this alternative heating source he needs to save up a lot of extra money to make any professional heating and cooling repair appointments. It costs a lot of money to install heated flooring and he needed to start bolstering his bank account for all of the HVAC technicians to perform the services. As such, he decided he needed to work 24/7 in order to bump up his cash flow. As a result of his HVAC desires, he no longer had any time to commit to a relationship. This is the day that he stopped speaking to me entirely. Well, at least I can look back on 2020 and laugh about the time that radiant heated flooring was more attractive than I was. Hope those floors keep him warm at night.

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Ready for some heat after day outside; bad luck

When you live on a farm there is in neverending list of things to accomplish.

I have been living on a horse farm for the past several months now and when I was younger I consistently worked at stables.

I have many vivid memories of being outside in the middle of a brutally hot summer or a desperately cold winter. In particular, my recollections of having numb fingers and toes stick with me. I can tell you, when you are outside doing manual labor your body has very discrepant internal temperatures. For me, I find that my midsection gets extremely warm as though there is a powerful boiler system within my chest. However, my fingers and toes seem to be lacking any circulation from the powerful heating system. As such, I get simultaneously sweaty and cold all at once. The entire time, I am dreaming of coming back inside so I can sit in front of the fireplace or the furnace and finally thaw out. Unfortunately, I also have terrible luck, on top of a busy schedule. The last time I was outdoors for 8 hours working in difficult cold weather conditions, I wandered back into the house to find that the furnace had stopped working. Now, instead of relaxing in front of a warm heating implement I had to cold call central heating and cooling repair shops for an emergency service. By the time the heating and cooling technician arrived at my place to repair the furnace, I was warmer working again outside then waiting inside of my ice-cold house.

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The fireplace is surprisingly hot

Sometimes I have to sit back and wonder if our modern way of life is actually that amazing. I know that we have all of the fancy gadgets and conveniences in the world these days, but are we really better off? Sometimes I wish that I could just shut my computer and never open it again. Yes, the internet is an amazing resource but it also opens your brain to an endless world of exhaustion. No matter how hard I try to concentrate on myself sometimes, I can’t keep my fingers away from the keyboard. All of this makes me wonder if we really need the electronics in our lives. Specifically, I’ve also been thinking a lot about forced air furnaces versus good old fire as a source of heating. I’ve always had a basic forced air furnace in my life. I can’t say that I’ve ever found the heating source to be especially reliable or consistent. They definitely are not energy-efficient or good for your bank account. However, they always seemed preferable to the other option… Feeding a wood fire. Recently, I’ve had to re-examine my assumption that a regular fireplace wouldn’t be good enough for heating my house. I was staying with my mom when she started utilizing her fireplace in the living room. Within about an hour I noticed that I was pulling off layers and discharging blankets from my body. Turns out, fireplaces are actually extremely effective for providing additional heat. Maybe I should get rid of my central heating system right along with my dumb computer and return to a simpler life.

 

 

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Next time, I’ll just get mini split systems

I guess you live and learn, that’s what they always say.

  • I never really believed that important lessons were seeping into my head when I was younger.

However, the older I get the more I look for the lesson in every single experience I have. This is how I can process unfortunate events and try to do better for myself in the future without wallowing for too long. This was definitely my strategy last year after I had a major heating, cooling, and air quality control investment take a turn for the worst. You see, I had moved into a new house and realized that the air quality control equipment needed to be upgraded. I found a high quality HVAC dealership in the area – or so I thought. I utilized their HVAC services to purchase a new heating, cooling, and air quality control system for the entire house. I thought that my HVAC investment would last me the next 20 years… but I was very wrong. Within a year all of my air handling devices were not operating correctly. I couldn’t rely on my air conditioner or forced air furnace to keep my indoor air temperature consistent. My energy bills were constantly increasing no matter what I did. Eventually, I realized that the entire central heating and cooling system was a dud. I could have been very upset about this air conditioning and heating disaster… But I decided to learn a lesson and move forward, instead. Whenever this HVAC system does finally stop working, I’m not going to pay for another expensive Central HVAC plan. Instead, I will be buying smaller mini split ductless heating and cooling systems. If those break down, I won’t have to face myself in the mirror with so much disappointment.

 

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Saying goodbye to the AC unit until next year

This is a time of year that’s always particularly challenging for me. For some reason, the onset of winter makes me rather sad and melancholy. I dive deep into a depressive hole and I don’t want to come out of it. I know that this experience isn’t unique to me, because there are many support groups for seasonal affective disorder in this area. However, I can’t even motivate myself to join the social clubs when I am feeling so down and out. I really hate the thought of continual darkness for about 4 months. I don’t enjoy waking up every morning to ice cold air temperatures or snowy conditions. I’m also not a big fan of relying entirely on my central heating, cooling, and air quality control system. When you live in a difficult climate you have to count on your central HVAC system to keep you alive. In the winter, my furnace is essentially my best friend because I contact my thermostat more than my cell phone. I never look forward to putting away my air conditioning unit and having my heating system professionally maintained for continual usage in the foreseeable future. There’s just something about calling out the professional HVAC repair dealership and requesting that routine maintenance appointment that immediately sends me on a spiral. I can’t help but get sad when I see my air conditioning unit being cleaned and covered for the season. The moment when I hear my furnace kick into gear for the first time feels like a real punch in the gut. Maybe someday I’ll move so I don’t endure this temperature depression.

 

 

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