Not even the right device

Not even the right device

When our partner and I bought our house many years ago now, both of us had no proposal that the air conditioner literally wasn’t big enough for the site.

  • Both of us hired an HVAC contractor to check out the plumbing and the Heating and A/C equipment back at that time.

I assume they checked to make sure that everything was genuinely up and running, however they did not bother to find out if both of us had the right HVAC components installed or not. I did not ask them to check on the relevancy of our HVAC devices either, so maybe that was our fault too. Both of us have been happily living in the loft for the past 6 years but both of us recently had to update and replace our AC after all this time. My partner and I were really surprised when the repair contractor came back and told us that the conditioner in our loft was too small for the current square footage. My partner and I had a 3 ton air conditioner in place, however the square footage of our loft required a 4 ton air conditioner, he reported. The project manager from the Heating and A/C contractor was really surprised that this would happen. He explained all of the reasons why it was bad for our cooling component and our electric bill. The contractor recommended that both of us go ahead and purchase a 4 ton air conditioner, and it was more than the 3 ton, but seemed necessary. This whole time, our partner and I have been using an air conditioning system that is far too small for our home. It’s no wonder that both of us pay a fortune to be cool.

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