At least there won’t be a repeat of what happened in August of last year.
This time, I’m going into the Summer months without fear of my heat pump dying and the lying is over.
I hate to lie. It’s just the worst feeling and whenever I do it, I just feel terrible. But last Spring, I chose to not tell my wife that the HVAC technician had given me a heads up about the HVAC unit. We always get an air conditioning tune-up each Spring. This is the matching piece to the heating maintenance we get in the Fall. Although, the air conditioning tune up might be more important. While it does sometimes get cold enough to have the heat pump kick on in the Winter, that’s pretty unusual. What’s not unusual is having that same heat pump run day and night to provide cooling comfort during the Summer months. After getting the info on the old heat pump, I chose to keep that to myself because I wasn’t prepared financially to replace the residential HVAC. For sure, the lie came from a place of embarrassment. I’m always talking about being mindful of our finances. And yet, I had HVAC equipment that was more than 25 years old but hadn’t yet started saving for the new HVAC unit. So I tried my best to ease the load on the heat pump last Summer. But of course, the heat pump died at the beginning of August and I had to come clean about the whole deal. My wife ended up taking our son to her parents where they have the very latest in residential HVAC. I got to stay at home and take care of the cat without any air conditioning but a window unit I borrowed and put inside our bedroom.