It was clear last year that the gas furnace was at the end.
We live in an area of the country where we have a winter season for months.
And the gas furnace is normally running a lot while we were in those weeks. But last winter, it seemed like the gas furnace just wouldn’t stop running. I’m so thankful I have a wood stove for supplemental heating. What started as an emergency furnace has become more and more supplemental. If I hadn’t had the wood stove last year, the heating costs would have wrecked me. So late in the summer, the heating and A/C professionals came in and replaced all of the heating and A/C equipment.This time though, we added air conditioning for cooling in the summer. Like I said, we live in a part of the country that deals with so much cold during the winter. But we have a generally comfortable summer. Maybe it’s me getting older or the planet getting hotter but we entirely wanted cooling added to the central air conditioning. This will not be the first time that we’ve ever had any kind of cooling. When my fiance was pregnant with our children, I always put a window air conditioning in our dining room for the summer. She was certainly sensitive to heat when she was pregnant and kept our room like a meat locker. Since then though, we generally deal with the hot afternoons by sitting under a fan. However, the summers have just become more and more heated and we’ve become more agitated. This year, we won’t be thanks to cooling comfort from the new heat pump.