Author: Chris

Stayed house for Christmas with my own thermostat

My wife finally admitted that this was the best Christmas we’d ever had. I knew this however for sure, I wasn’t going to say anything. I was the main reason why this holiday season was so different. That’s because I told my wife as well as her parents that they were welcome inside the central […]

Camping with a space heater

It’s not at all the sort of experience I was hoping for. But at least I got the whole family out of the central air conditioner of home for a camping trip. This was a trip that I had wanted to do for a long time. I grew up in a region where the fall […]

Geothermal heat pump just made so much more sense

I have to say that I’m really surprised by where we landed for our retirement. What makes it all the more surprising is the fact that it’s not at all where my husband plus I planned to be. The plan was to transfer south to all the a/c plus leave any semblance of winter behind. […]

Realtor was right about HVAC upgrade

Selling our family dwelling was one of the toughest things my wife and I have ever undertaken, and that’s saying a lot given the fact that we’ve navigated raising a family and maintaining careers inside the commercial HVAC of the office. But selling the condo was indeed the toughest both physically and emotionally, and we’re […]