This past Winter saw me get the most from HVAC heating
I’m still studying how to live here.
- There is truly a cultural difference along with a geographical & weather conditions difference.
The weather conditions is perhaps the most different. The Winter is the focus for sure. And that’s because is seems near never ending to me. The gas furnace kicks on in November & can keep heating even into late May or early May. That’s a lot of HVAC heating. Even more so when you have my perspective. Heating during the Winter meant maybe a few cycles of heating from the heat pump in the afternoon. Or perhaps, the heat pump felt great some crisp, cool mornings. But nothing even remotely the same as what I experience now. And to that end, I’m getting much better about mitigating the HVAC heating costs. The first year I was hear, the gas furnace ran all the time & I truly didn’t even try to control the temperature control. I was simply trying to survive & acweather conditions to the cold. The next winter, I did better with the temperature control & it showed up in HVAC heating. Still, I wanted to bring those costs down even more. That meant truly preparing the home for winter. And that’s all about sealing it up narrow to keep the HVAC heating in & the cold out. It took some free time to get that done. I changed out all the weather stripping. The outdated storm doors were replaced. And the last few single paned windows on the second floor were replace with double paned windows. I added some insulation & made sure there were no gaps on the exterior of my home that weren’t filled in. And I saved a bunch more on HVAC heating costs this past winter.