There’s something strange I’ve been going on with my heating and AC system lately.
I am very familiar with my energy bills and how much I expect everything to cost every single month.
I always get charged during the same amount for my heating and cooling bill, however recently the past couple months I noticed what at first started out as a gradual increase in the prices, but then this month the price is spiked up substantially. I was scratching my head trying to figure out what would cause a sudden spike in prices for my energy bills. I had not done anything different, I knew that if my heating and AC system was not working efficiently or if it was old but it could be working extra hard to heat and cool the home and that could cause a rise in Heating and cooling bills. However that doesn’t make any sense, I had recently had my HVAC system inspected by the cooling professional and he said that it was perfectly fine, also my heating and AC system is not that old and so there’s no reason for it to be inefficient. So what is causing this? I scheduled an appointment with the HVAC technician again to have them take another look. I was thinking they had to have been missing something. When the heat and AC guy came back out, I explained my problem and this time he did a more in-depth search, looking at things apart from just the heating and AC system itself and what he found to me was very surprising. I had a piece of my ductwork that had a hole in it! It was allowing air to escape causing my heating and AC system to work very hard just to heat and cool my house, this explained that the rise of my energy bills thankfully all I had to do was have my ductwork resealed and the issue was taken care of but for a while there I was concerned.