Going long term with HVAC equipment
When people ask me what it was like building the house we moved into early last Fall, I have to take a beat before answering.
It’s hard to put such a complex experience into words and articulate it accurately. The fact is, that while it took just about a year to build that home. It all started years ago inside the central air conditioning of our old house. My wife and I noted early on that we were a bit too selfish and a bit to into our respective careers for children. This was a tough decision but ultimately, it was the right one. So we lived in what was going to be our starter home for more than a decade. But we were also beginning to develop plans for the place we ended up building. Once we finalized those plans, we upgraded the heating and cooling equipment and got that house on the market. Our timing couldn’t have been better as we hit it just when the market went nuts. Once we sold that home, we rented a condo while our new place was in the process of being built. There were so many challenges in that process. But one thing that went totally to plan was the residential HVAC. Since we had decided to go with a geothermal heat pump over a traditional heat pump, we had to find just the right HVAC professional for that job. Perhaps that’s why this one component of the build went so well. Not only did we love the radiant floor heating this Winter, we’re excited to see just how much we’ll save on air conditioning this Summer. And we’re going to enjoy this geo heat pump and all those savings for more than 30 or 40 years.