Really brought down the HVAC heating costs this past winter
Really brought down the HVAC heating costs this past winter
So the spring is quickly turning into summer.
- But where we live, that’s not the worst thing ever.
Our summers aren’t the blistering heat machine that our neighbors to the south endure. While we do need some air conditioning, it’s nothing on the order of what those folks have to deal with. I guess that’s sort of a positive when it comes to this region. Our summers can get hot for 8 or 10 weeks. But the air conditioning rarely has to run at night as the temperatures fall significantly once the sun goes down. I’ve visited friends and family down south in the summer and that heat pump is running night and day to provide the necessary HVAC cooling. So I guess we should count our blessings. Yet, we have to deal with a winter that folks down south just don’t deal with at all. And it can get really expensive as HVAC heating costs just continue to rise. So last fall, I did some winter prep on the house for the first time ever and it made a really big difference. Really, it wasn’t all that tough and I should have been doing this for years. Prior to last fall, my winter prep consisted of calling the HVAC company to get them out to do the heating maintenance on the gas furnace. That was it. While that heating maintenance is indeed important, what I did this fall made such a much bigger difference when it came to saving on HVAC heating costs. Sealing up the house and keeping some thermostat discipline saved us nearly 20 percent on heating costs over the previous year.