Category: Indoor Air Quality

While we were waiting for the HVAC technician the other day, I had to send my kids outside because they were driving me crazy. Sometimes they just get into these moods when they just want to fight with each other and nothing else. I guess it is just like a fun pastime for them, but… Continue reading I sent my kids outside while we were waiting for the HVAC technician

Storage has always been kind of a pain in our house. It definitely was designed by a woman The washer and dryer are significantly away from the house in a shed. The used was definitely designed to house a lot of tools too. There is a room in the house that has a metal door,… Continue reading I need to free up Heating, Ventilation & A/C storage space

Our friends recently invested in a dehumidifier for their home. We live in a sizzling and humid state. In fact, it is the state that people think of when they talk about hot and humid temperature and we believe we are in the hottest and wettest part of that state. Anyway, our friends decided to… Continue reading Our friends decided to invest in a dehumidifier

We were recently waiting for a flight at the local international airport. It was going to be a short one: just a one-hour flight to hop a few states over. We were going to a large conference for our corporation. It’s an annual conference that we’ve come to enjoy, simply because it means about 4… Continue reading Our home recently lost use of its Heating & AC system

In the past few years my arthritis has gotten so intense. I was taking medication for it, as well as decreasing my diet to mollify it, but eventually my outdated age caught up with me as well as the arthritis got very painful all day long, every day. At this point I cannot win the… Continue reading Should I get new radiant heating in my floors?

I was so blessed to have a great professor in the industry. Long before I got my certification I was what my good friend and I call an HVAC “helper” which is basically the assistant to an HVAC tech. My Uncle Ed had been in the industry for four decades, as well as although she… Continue reading I had the greatest professor in the HVAC industry

Taking an oil furnace service emergency on Halloween pays better than a normal Tuesday night. I am in my mid 20s, I have no children or immediate family, as well as have been “in between” partners for about eight months, which means that I get stuck with a lot of the extra work that comes… Continue reading A spooky oil furnace service during Halloween

Living in the deep south is not for the weak. It takes a tough woman made of stern stuff to survive in the swamps of the southeastern corner of the country; For example, consider the bug population for a second. In this section my good friend Ed and I have bees, wasps, hornets, sixteen strange… Continue reading In the Deep South I rely on my air conditioner

The ceiling in my apartment office almost collapsed on my head last week, as well as I’m looking at a sizable bill to get it repaired; Part of me wants to just tack up some thick plastic sheeting then not worry about fixing the ceiling at all, however, a contractor looked at the disfigure as… Continue reading It would lead to so many complications with my air ducts

There has never been a/c in the back room, but surprisingly the new ventilation plan helps with that, too. Working with a deep fat fryer in the house comes with a whole lot of negatives. I would never have one of these things in my own house, because they cause such a greasy mess as… Continue reading The new ventilation plans are amazing

I didn’t want to become a handyman, I just sort of fell into it. I grew up in a poor family, as well as my parents taught me how to make the most out of anything. My good friend and I never threw out food or donated used clothes. My Dad would always repurpose the… Continue reading I’m not a certified HVAC tech but I do OK for myself

Which leads me back to my original question – should I keep the money? If I hadn’t found it as well as taken it to my apartment it would have sat inside that air ducts until the building was demolished, as well as it could have been lost forever If you found a lot of… Continue reading I found a lot of money in an outdated air duct