I think most of us are taking a punch to the wallet the last few years.
If it’s not a pandemic that forces me to work from home inside the air conditioning of my house, it’s out of control inflation.
Our financial challenges began when I was forced to leave the zone controlled HVAC comfort of the office. And then, I had to take a pretty deep pay cut in order to just maintain my job. Thankfully, I’m now back inside the commercial HVAC of my office with my full income intact. But of course, as soon as that happened I was hit with skyrocketing prices everywhere. Inflation ran rampant in our region for sure if not countrywide. So I’m always doing my best to cut costs when it comes to the household budget. So I actually checked into some alternatives when I was alerted to the fact that the HVAC equipment needed some attention. We always get seasonal HVAC maintenance in the fall and again in the spring. Last fall, the HVAC technician explained to me that our heat pump was going to need an expensive component replaced. We don’t get many calls for heating down here so I had some time before that necessary HVAC repair had to happen. I checked around with a handyman or two to see what sort of prices they would offer to do that component replacement. Indeed, the prices were much lower than the HVAC company. However, every single one of them was not willing to guarantee the work. That seemed like a major red flag to me and perhaps I would end up having to call the HVAC company anyway. So I avoided a mess and just had the HVAC professionals do a proper job that I knew would be guaranteed.
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