Month: September 2021

My boss has very specific HVAC needs

Money comes with privileges, such as being able to pay your own private staff on your sprawling rural estate. It isn’t my estate, of course, I don’t have any money. I am a bit better off here, though. Much to my surprise I got much higher pay working for a single client then I did […]

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I fixed my own air conditioner!

I lost my job right at the start of the COVID pandemic. My boss wasn’t going out of business, but he saw the writing on the wall and released about half the staff with no warning. Since then it was pretty hard trying to find new work, so I have a lot of free time […]

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The guests deserve quality climate control

My wife was the one who convinced me to do a vision board, because I thought it was a silly idea. Have you heard of vision boards? You take a corkboard or a bulletin board, and you fill it with inspiration quotes, and pictures of what you want to achieve in the next year. The […]

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Fixing HVAC systems for snobby rich folks

Basically, I work in paradise. My daily schedule is fairly flexible, but my on-calls hours are around the clock, and that is not flexible at all. I am one of the head techs at a ritzy beachside resort. I live here, at a small cabana overlooking the beach, and although the work is hard the […]

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The hotel needs new air conditioners

Now that we wanted to have some guests, those rooms needed to have TV and AC once more. My dad had a grand idea to open up a roadside hotel near the new amusement park they were building. Dad was never good with business, and he had terrible timing, so he built the entire hotel […]

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A geothermal heat pump on the farm

My grandpa raised me, and taught me to be prepared for anything. This was a while ago, he has been gone for twenty years or so, and he was an old man when I was a young man. He grew up in the Great Depression, where every day was a fight for survival on the […]

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The beach bum was an HVAC tech

I met the most interesting man at the beach the other day. I actually met him a week ago, but when I saw him again he offered me a beer, and we sat to talk for a while. He had his dog Max with him, and told me he had spent the entire last two […]

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Too hot for the beach

You always want a hot, sunny day when you are at the beach. In this case it was too hot, and too sunny, and three days on the coast ended up being pretty miserable. It wasn’t all bad, mind you, there was some great food, a lot of drinks, and my wife and I had […]

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No need for cooling repairs

I own a large patch of land out in the country. I inherited it, and although it used to be a farm there had not been crops nor livestock here in 20 years. The ranch house is very nice, and I like living here because of the open, scenic countryside and the solitude. I do […]

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HVAC tech for a rock band

Most rock bands carry their own gear, and don’t have roadies or show techs. But the huge, epic, headlining stadium rock bands, the big guys, have an army of a crew that travels with them. You have security guys, of course, and you have the roadies to haul gear and set up the stage. There […]

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