They Were Sticklers About Their HVAC Settings
They Were Sticklers About Their HVAC Settings
My parents were sticklers about the HVAC system when I was growing up.
My brother and I were forbidden to touch the thermostat settings because my parents were convinced that they had it set the most efficiently.
One time, my brother learned the hard way that if you touch the thermostat settings, punishment will be enforced. He was grounded for 2 weeks and unable to use his cell phone simply because he lowered the AC by 2 degrees. Witnessing this, I vowed to never touch the thermostat no matter how hot or cold I got. Whenever we would go on vacation during the winter, my parents would set the thermostat to 55 degrees! This was insanely cold and by the time we got home from our trip, our house felt like it was located in the north pole! As my brother and I got older, we learned more about HVAC systems through new technology and we found better ways to heat and cool our home efficiently. I think my brother was still upset that he was grounded all those years ago for changing the temperature because when he found out that my parents weren’t actually running their HVAC system as efficiently as they had hoped, he had no problem proving to them that they weren’t. Setting their furnace to 55 degrees was actually doing more harm than good, because it required a tremendous amount of energy to heat a home from that temperature. My parents were in disbelief when he told them, but they had no choice but to believe him when he showed them the proof!