Have young children crawling around or pets? They will enjoy this heating system too.

I have been looking into getting heated flooring for my home. The pros are just too vast to ignore. First, since the heating system is either with hot water or electric, there is no air being blown. That means the sound of the HVAC system turning off and blowing out of the vents no longer happens. It is a quiet system. Additionally, there is no air that is polluted and ruining your air conditions. No ductwork is needed to transfer the heat and that means no ductwork sealing appointments. Another benefit is that with radiant heating, all the floor is evenly heated. With forced air systems it is easy to have hot and cold spots. The heat naturally rises and gets wasted on the ceiling too. The electric or hot water stays right at the flooring level and heats every tile that it is installed into. Since the heat stays right at your flooring level, most people lower their thermostats since they naturally feel warmer. The heat is just that much better. Radiant heat warms objects touching it too. Your couch, chairs and bed will all feel heated as a result. Have young children crawling around or pets? They will enjoy this heating system too. I have looked into the cost of this heating upgrade and it is surprisingly reasonable compared to most heating systems I am used to. The lifespan is around 10-15 years as well. That is quite a chunk of time for that system. The only con is the installation is quite invasive and the radiant flooring does build up the floor and add weight to the house.
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Every room in the house has their own smart thermostat

Upgrading your thermostat is a low cost, but surprisingly efficient way to save money. I went for years with a basic dial thermostat. I kept the temperature at 74 degrees year around since I hated messing with it. I would leave for the office, to go on vacation or just for an evening out and not think about the thermostat. Every room in the house would get equal heating and cooling. It was a no stress, no mess lifestyle. It isn’t exactly cheap providing HVAC for an entire home 24/7 though. I was shocked at how much energy I was wasting until I purchased a smart thermostat. This temperature control device is designed to keep your energy costs down. My thermostat even recommends temperatures that are better for energy savings. It also automatically powers down when I am no longer in the house. I have trained the thermostat to begin pre-heating or cooling when I am about an hour away from home. I hardly need to do a thing, but the house isn’t getting HVAC all day long while I am gone anymore. Additionally, since I have a ductless HVAC optin now, I am able to have zone control. Every room in the house has their own smart thermostat. Rooms I hardly use no longer get heating and cooling. If I want AC in the summer, I only have cooling in my bedroom or kitchen. I never sacrifice comfort but I save so much money! The smart thermostat looks better, operates smoother and also alerts me on air filter changes.

 

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My house came with a backyard shed that I decided to make my workout space.

• It needed a bit of work though.

I had to add insulation, drywall and new windows. Even with that, I worried about temperature control. Thankfully I live down south and it doesn’t get too cold. I found that a simple space heater does the job quite well. I just need to turn it on about an hour before working out and then I have quality heating. I knew I was going to be in trouble when summer hit. Now it is summer and not having any AC is really rough. I have looked into window AC but I don’t love the idea. Where would I store the air conditioners when it was no longer hot? I also don’t like covering my new windows with an ugly, bulky cooling unit. I have looked into a ductless mini split and that is what I want. I would have both heating and cooling in one single unit. The air handler mounts on the wall and out of the way. I could get a smart thermostat and run it from my phone. I could preheat or cool the space and do it from my work computer. I could have as much heating or air conditioning as I want. However, the cost on this and the installation is quite extensive. I don’t know if it is worth doing for an hour a day activity. I really only need an AC option too for the summer season. I am running out of options though.

 

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I am a decent singer and often get applause at karaoke events when I belt out one of my beloved 1960s hits.

Unfortunately, my talents do not extend to my legs, so I watch in envy old films with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire and videos of the more modern Savion Glover perform his tap-dancing magic.

Dancing is much more dangerous than singing simply because you can lose your footing and take an embarrassing tumble and sprain an ankle. The last thing a dance studio needs is for someone like me, with “two left feet”, to fall on a slippery floor. That is why it is so important that the indoor air quality at professional dance studios be kept at a temperature and humidity so that no condensate can form to make the floor slippery. There are no regulations that dictate what conditions a dance studio needs to be but keeping the room between 65°F and 75°F is accepted as the optimal range. The warmer temperatures will boost the dancer’s core temperature and is better for preventing joint damage and muscle strains. The two HVAC options for dance studios are the traditional forced-air system or a mini-split, both common types of HVAC units. The annual maintenance costs are about the same, but budget-minded dance studio owners will prefer the mini-split system due to its lower installation cost. The other big advantage of a mini-split HVAC system is that it can be installed with a heat pump. Dance studios get busy for the holidays and the large spacious rooms can be difficult to warm in the winter. The heat pump will reduce the need for space heaters that dancers like me are prone to stumble over while attempting a daring Argentine Tango move.

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Characters from the 1960s sitcom “The Andy Griffith Show” live forever with streaming services and YouTube.

• One such character is “Aunt Bee”, who is the aunt of the main character Sheriff Andy Taylor.

Andy is a single dad to his son Opie, so Aunt Bee fills the role of housekeeper and matriarch to the household. She is renowned for her cooking skills. Aunt Bee goes through quite a transformation in the series 6th year when the episodes were first filmed in color and cigarette ads were recently banned from TV. Her fashions become less dowdy, and she makes better choices in the men who choose to seek her affections. During the black and white seasons, her suitors include an itinerant handyman, a traveling medicine man who sells the teetotalling Bee an alcohol-based “elixir”, a chain-smoking dry cleaner, and a rough and tumble mountain man. The color episodes have her keeping company with a retired Congressman, a visiting pastor, and a visiting professor and lecturer. My theory is that this transformation is due to a central air conditioning and heating system being installed into the Taylors house. The summers in North Carolina can get quite hot and I’m sure that Aunt Bee was exhausted after cooking up her famous fried chicken or baking her award-winning apple pie for Andy and Opie. The HVAC system would have cooled things off in the kitchen and may have eased her other household chores as well. With less dust and cigarette smoke to clean, she had time for a complete makeover. The town mechanic,Gomer Pyle, left to join the Marines. His replacement “Goober” could have been recast as a qualified HVAC technician to service the Taylor’s new HVAC unit in a recurring role. Perhaps he would have become another suitor of Aunt Bee.

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There is a story floating around on the internet about some physicists in the Antarctic who have found evidence of a parallel universe.

The claims were made based on the detection of some kind of “energy” coming from beneath the ice of the South Pole.

I am assuming they eliminated Santa Claus and Superman because they tend to dwell in the North Pole. This “discovery“ is welcome news to me because I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of the multiverse, where an infinite number of parallel universes allow for infinite outcomes of any event. Those that dream of being Superman are Superman in other universes. Bill Gates has done quite well in our universe but is busy begging on the streets in some of those alternate universes. We can only speculate about what life would be like in another universe but I’m positive there is at least one where HVAC systems operate at 100% efficiency powered by clean free energy from some source. I also imagine that they run maintenance-free so any qualified HVAC technician in that universe is relegated to the status of an idle Maytag repairman. Perhaps, these alternate universe HVAC systems have a way of cleaning themselves. There would be no need for the twice-a-year service that the lowly HVAC systems in our universe must undergo to keep running smoothly all year round. My wife only wants to change one thing in her alternate universe. She may ask for some cosmetic improvements and perhaps a younger model of me, but what she genuinely wants is someone who will remember to make that call to the HVAC company to service our central HVAC unit. She simply wants to avoid those problems that arise when an HVAC system in our universe is neglected.

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Most people think of Thomas Edison (1847-1931), the famed American inventor as the creator of the world’s first incandescent light bulb.

• The truth is that he did not invent it, but he managed to get a patent on the first light bulb design that was practical and affordable for lighting a room in a typical home.

What made the light bulb work was an invention from another inventor of the era named Lewis Latimer (1848-1928), who developed an improved method for the production of carbon filaments for light bulbs. Latimer’s parents were once slaves in Virginia who escaped to Chelsea, Massachusetts about six years before he was born. When he was 10, the family split apart because of the Dred Scott decision that ruled former slaves as property unless they could prove their former owners had consented to their freedom. Lewis overcame all of this; he served in the Navy during the Civil War and went on to be a successful inventor working with the likes of Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Latimer’s name is also on U.S. Patent 334,078 titled “Early Air Conditioning Unit Apparatus for cooling and disinfecting”, issued on January 12, 1886. This early AC system used the cooling effects of evaporation from a “webbing of any suitable textile fabric” that was stretched between a reservoir and a drip pan and saturated with water. Twenty years later, Willis Carrier undoubtedly used some of Latimer’s know-how when he obtained the U.S. Patent 808,897 for an “Apparatus for Treating Air.” With that patent Carrier was credited with inventing the world’s first spray-type air conditioning equipment, able to both “wash” and humidify or dehumidify air. Latimer remained a forgotten inventor, but we owe the inventions of light bulbs, telephones, and HVAC units to his contributions.

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We haven’t used our HVAC system since winter.

The spring temperatures around here are just perfect and I see it as a good time to save on some electricity so I open the windows when it is hot and I turn on the heated blanket when it is cold.

Well it finally got warm enough for air conditioning and my family was happy about it. That is, until we noticed that half of the house is not getting any cold air at all. The kitchen, dining room, hallway, and bathroom all have cold air. However, none of the bedrooms have any air conditioned air at all and neither does the storage room. My husband called up an air conditioning company and they came out to check out the situation. Apparently we have a family of foxes living under our house. The air conditioning technician said he could smell them as soon as he opened up the crawl space. Additionally, he could heat the little kits making noise. He also said it is likely that the foxes, or other animals, damaged our ductwork under there. However, we have to get rid of the foxes before the air conditioner tech goes under the house to fix it. We could call out a trapper to relocate the foxes but I really don’t want to do that. I would rather wait a few months for them to grow up and go away by themselves. After all, baby foxes need a place to live too. We can get a strong window air conditioner for a few months if we have too.

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I have been having a hard time getting a new HVAC installed.

• I have known from the get-go that my house would be challenging.

The previous owners just had a window A/C unit and space heaters to keep the house comfortable. We have a moderate climate here so that is doable. However, it is not ideal. With pets, I don’t like to leave space heaters running unattended as it is not very safe. Additionally, I like to be cold at night, especially in the summer. So one window A/C was not going to cut it. No. I needed central heating and air. I had an HVAC provider come out to the house and give me an estimate. The technician started inside of the house. He found the perfect place for all of the ductwork, vents, and even for the utility closet. The problem arose when he went outside to find a place for the compressor. My house is on a bit of a hill. And, because of the water in this area, my house is built even higher up. This poses a problem because the compressor needs to be, more or less, level with the house. The HVAC technician said he would need to talk to his manager and get back to me. That was over 2 weeks ago and I still have not heard anything back. I tried calling twice in that time and no one has gotten back to me. So now I am working with another HVAC company and they are suggesting building stilts for the compressor. I guess that would work. I just hope they know what they are doing.
Dual fuel system

It is always hard to get out of bed in the morning but this morning was the worst. The reason for this was because it was so cold in my bedroom. I knew that I had left the gas furnace on all night long. After all, I do all of the time this time of year. So why was it so cold? I was toasty warm and comfortable under my thick covers and it took several minutes and a lot of willpower before I was able to force myself to get out from under them. I knew I had to check on the furnace and I had to go to work too so I hastily got dressed in the warmest clothes I could find then I went downstairs and checked the thermostat. It read 48 degrees! No wonder I was so uncomfortable. My thermostat was supposed to be set to 68 degrees. I tried messing with the thermostat by turning it on and off, adjusting the temperatures settings, and even turning it to A/C then back to heat. Nothing worked. My furnace would not start up. Finally I called up the furnace business that I usually use. I had to pay a bit extra for an emergency visit but I was happy to do it. I also called out to work and then sat around my freezing house waiting for the furnace technicians to show up. I think I would have rather been at work. At least there it is always warm and comfortable. My furnace did end up getting fixed, however, and I ended up warming up some myself, in time.

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