When you live far out in a rural area like me, it can be hard to get a heating and AC technician out to service your heating and cooling unit. I do not like having to rely on other people for the things I need in life and so as soon as I had the available funds I set off to make myself self-reliant and in as many ways as possible. I now grow my own food, raise my own livestock, provide my own water, and even provide my own electricity but there is one thing that I cannot do. I cannot repair my own heating and AC unit. I do not have a central heating and cooling system because of how I live. Instead I just have a portable ductless mini split AC and a space heater. Well like with anything, eventually something is going to break and that is what happened with my space heater. I had no idea how to fix it, as after all I am not a professional HVAC technician. So I tried to get a heating and AC company to come out and service it but I figured it was unlikely because of how far out I was and I was correct. I wasn’t even able to get a mobile HVAC company to come out to where I live for the same reason. Plus my place is so far out that it is off the main roads, in order to find that you have to find a tiny dirt road that runs in between a few trees. It’s hard to spot if you don’t know the area so they probably get lost looking for me anyways. I wasn’t too happy about it but I had no choice but to take it into town. But I’m looking into a solution for that, I’m currently learning the trade of being a heating and AC specialist. This way when it breaks next time I can fix it myself.