Your HVAC Troubleshooting Guys

I just took a trip to the hot Springs and both of us lost our heat on the way here.

That was nothing compared to what almost happened on the way back to the car from our mountain hike though.

I took off early from the hot Springs because it was getting dark and the path back was quite treacherous. After about ten minutes of walking back, I realized I was going the wrong way so I turned around and went back to meet the group. When I got back though, the group was gone and it was just me by myself. My heating and A/C rep friend had my phone and that was going to be my light to see, so now I was lost with no light and no phone to call. I kept calm, however I knew I would not survive the sub zero night with no heating unit or tent. Luckily, I spotted some lights above me to the left, far above me, and I yelled and whistled and they must have heard me because their lights were flashing at me. I just wanted a sizzling hot fireplace in the lodge with an immense comforter wrapped around me. So, I ran and caught up with the group and we made it back to safety. I thought about that mountain when I got home and realized if I did get lost, and had no type of gas furnace or section heating machine to keep me warm, I would have ended up frozen by the time day rolled around. It was 16 below zero that night from what I heard on the weather forecast the next day.

Click Here

We all are now in a car taking a little trip to the thermal baths on the Spanish and French borders.

• I guess we all will be on the road for just an hour or so and I am going to try and knock out these articles so I can enjoy the view of the mountains on the way back.

The local supplier where I work back home gave myself and others some time off from our duct cleaning task, and I am enjoying them to the fullest. This week is our last full day of this trip and it should be a fun one, as I have never been to a hot thermal bath for a swim. I normally swim in the freezing sea back home, so this will be a welcome change for me. Come Wednesday I will be back in the heating and cooling corp doing my job once again and remembering this fun trip. It is kind of cool that I can do my side job with these articles and make a bit of money while we are on the road. This world has changed a lot in the past 45 years hasn’t it? You used to have to work at the local supplier each day and get there by horse and carriage in a vehicle which had no heating and A/C system. Now I am now working in our heated car, traveling at 68 miles per hour, and having fun while making money on the road. The temps are below freezing outside, but with the amazing furnace in this car, we are all comfy and blissful on our journey.

Official Site

The pandemic undoubtedly took a toll on our economy, as many of the small companies in our area did not survive the lockdown.

• The pandemic was an unprecedented event that nobody saw coming and some supplier owners were left to fend for themselves.

There was some help from the federal government in the form of a stimulus, but some companies still suffered grave consequences and had to permanently close their doors. While some companies did not survive, there were others that thrived and even saw growth during the pandemic. The heating and A/C industry has been slowly growing over the years, but it did see significant growth during the lockdowns. With more people now working from home, it meant they were using their heating and A/C units more than before. And as with any equipment, the increased use led to more malfunctions, not to mention that during quarantine we experienced some of our warmest weeks, so a lot of heating and A/C units broke down in that timeframe. Personally, I have an older heating and A/C unit, and sure enough it broke down about three weeks after I began to work from home. The capacitor, which is an electrical component responsible for starting the heating and A/C unit, had malfunctioned. Prior to that incident, I had never had an issue with our unit. Turns out that the capacitor is sensitive to heat and will fail from direct sun, or if the device is running too hard. So, it was inevitable for that malfunction to happen during the pandemic. Therefore, if our device broke, there were tons of other units that experienced issues in that timeframe. This means that work increased for heating and A/C companies all over the country.

URL

I grew up in the northern area of the country where the temperature gets pretty cold during those winter months. And when I was a child, our home was always warm and toasty in the colder season. Both of us used a radiator that was attached to a boiler as our heat source in the winter, however the house that we lived in did not have central heating or cooling. In fact, most houses and buildings in the city did not have central heating or cooling equipment. When the houses and buildings were constructed, central heating and A/C was not a regular device located inside those homes. And the radiator that we used for heat in the winter had window cooling systems that we used to keep cool during the summer season. Back then life was much easier and I was grateful that our home had heat and air conditioning. I have since moved out of that city and I have been using a central heating and A/C device ever since. And of course, it’s a luxury to have a cooling and heating device in our home. For many of those residents that still live in the city that I grew up in, they don’t have the same luxuries. In fact, unless the building or new home is a newly built structure, chances are the residents are still relying on a radiator for heat and a window air conditioner for cooling in the summertime. When you live in the city you get used to those options, as it wasn’t until I moved out that I realized how much more comfort a heating and A/C device provides for a home.

Website