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When people come down here to live, it’s much different that when they come on vacation.

A lot of folks will often venture to our region when the gas furnace is on back at their house.

We offer splendid temperatures and plenty of sun about 8 months of the year. And that’s generally when most people visit. Yet, I always can spot a first timer when it comes to experiencing a full summer down here. Thankfully, we have great residential HVAC in order to manage the levels of heat and humidity we see here. Still, it’s definitely a full on overwhelming experience for those who are new to this sort of summer. Basically, I see them dance between places where the HVAC cooling is just cranking. The other telltale sign that it’s a newcomer is that the heat pump is on nearly all the time. That’s just sort of the natural, go to, instinct level reaction to this type of heat. Bring on the residential HVAC and all the HVAC cooling that one can handle. I understand how that can be a rational reaction to this type of heat when you haven’t experienced it before. Yet, it’s just not a sustainable approach from a financial or resources perspective. If the air conditioning is on that much in your home, it’s going to cost you a fortune and you’re wasting resources as well. The best bet for getting through the heat season down here is to accept it. And that means don’t go right for the HVAC cooling in April. Wait and that makes the summertime thermostat setting in the low 80’s a whole lot more palatable and way, way less expensive.

 

 

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I moved away from the cold for a reason.

• Sure, having a job lined up and a promotion at that sure added to my motivation.

But having been born and raised with brutal winters, I was ready for a change. And I never really got the whole winter thing anyway. Going outside wasn’t my thing and so I ended up inside the HVAC heating of the house all winter. Those winters go for minimum five very cold months. That’s a lot of time spent inside with the gas furnace cranking. So moving to the south was always on my radar. I even tried to go to college inside all that HVAC cooling down south. But dad was never going to help pay for out of state tuition. That meant a state school and all the radiant heat I could stand inside a dorm room for four years. When I was offered the promotion and the chance to work in the zone controlled HVAC of our southern office, I jumped at it. Honestly, it was the best decision of my life. I miss my home region in a variety of cultural and regional ways but I sure don’t miss that gas furnace. These days, I get both my heating and cooling from one source. The heat pump is king around this region and it’s not even close. The heat pump is so perfectly designed for this application. It moves heat energy from one place to another. So in our homes, it’s moving the heat energy out of the house so cooler air can take its place and then lower the temperature.

 

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Where I live, the summer can be straight brutal.

And this is the time of year where we’re all realizing that we have the next four months of steamy heat to contend with.

But it also reminds me to be grateful as well. First, I super lucky to live in the age of residential HVAC and all the great HVAC technology that comes with that. Second, I’m still thankful I don’t have to deal with a gas furnace and all that snow up north during the winter. So if dealing with the summer heat and trying to keep the thermostat at a setting I can afford is my trade off, I’ll still take it. But I have to sort of move indoors for the exercise portion of my life. I’ve never been a gym sort of person. For one, I can’t seem to find a gym in this town with the sort of commercial HVAC that can handle the heat and a hundred sweaty people. But there’s a different discomfort as well. I just feel weird working out with people I don’t know is such close proximity. So mainly, I’m outside on my bike or playing tennis or something. The summer forces me into the basement because unless it’s the crack of dawn, it’s too hot to ride bikes. So I have a ductless heat pump in the basement and a stationary bike to get my miles in. This summer, I’m going to add some resistance band training down there in that perfect air conditioning. The summer is for air conditioning but it doesn’t last forever!

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I’m not exactly ready to say goodbye to spring breezes and cooler temperatures.

• But I really don’t have much say in all of that anyway.

It’s a fact that summer season is upon us. And if you live in this region, that’s the season you dread the most. Maybe dread is too big a word but the heat season is definitely my least favorite. Thankfully, there is plenty of HVAC comfort these days. In fact, you can almost avoid the outside temperature altogether these days with HVAC cooling. My wife got one of those remote starters for her car. She gets the awesome car and I get the 20 year old truck that doesn’t even have air conditioning. But she can start here car which then cranks the air conditioning so her car is all cooled off when she gets in. She only deals with the heat from the car to wherever she’s going. I’m more of the sort who likes to embrace the heat a bit more. I live outside much of the year. I mean when you live where the winter is so mild that the heat pump doesn’t really even come on, why would you stay inside. Plus, the sun is almost always out and the sky blue. It’s really like that for 8 months of the year. Just perfection. Alas, I have four months of heavy heat and humidity that will chase me inside the HVAC cooling for at least the middle of the day. I mean, you got to work sometime right? I’m just thankful to have great residential HVAC that I can count on for all the air conditioning I need this summer.

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