When we first decided to build two extra bedrooms and a two story great room onto our house, I was so excited about it! I mean, who doesn’t want extra space for their house, right? I just knew that the addition was going to be the answer to all of my problems with my house.
Little did I know that thanks to our HVAC system, our problems were just beginning when we put on the addition.
See, we didn’t consult with our local HVAC company before we put the addition on. Our contractor wasn’t exactly an expert when it comes to heating and cooling systems, and so he didn’t tell us that having all of the extra space was going to negatively affect the performance of our electric furnace and our central air conditioning system. Of course, hindsight is twenty twenty, and we should have known that having all of the extra space to heat and cool was going to be an issue. I guess we were just so focused on getting the addition built that we didn’t stop to consider the thought that we were going to have to provide heating and cooling for it once it was finished! Now, our heating and cooling bills are out of control every month. Not only that, but our beautiful new living area is never the temperature that we want it to be, no matter how high we turn up the thermostat. It’s causing us all kinds of trouble and we just don’t know what to do. I made an appointment with our HVAC technician to have him come and give us his professional opinion.