If you’re having problems with your heating and cooling system in your home, then I would suggest that you double check your thermostat before you do anything else.
This is probably just common sense to most people, but for me it was something that I ended up having to learn the hard way.
I had never lived in my own place before I moved into this house, and so when the heating and cooling system seemed to stop working one day, I had no idea what the issue was. I started looking around in the basement at the HVAC system, but to be honest, I really had no idea what I was even looking for. I’m not exactly the handiest person around and I don’t know how to fix things around the house very well. I wasn’t happy about it, but I knew that I might as well go ahead and call my local HVAC company to make an appointment to get the HVAC system repaired before the weather started heating up too much. I don’t like living without air conditioning when the weather is hot and so I wasn’t about to chance being without air conditioning for too long at all. I made an appointment and when the HVAC technician showed up at my house, he was done with the repair in less than five minutes. It turned out that the only thing that was wrong with my HVAC system was the battery in my thermostat unit! All I needed to do was change the batteries and everything was fine. I couldn’t believe it.