It really didn’t take all that much effort really.
- All I really had to do was spend a few hours of being proactive to end up saving a bunch of money on my air conditioning bill.
And when you live where I do, that’s a very big deal. While the winter HVAC utilities are beyond minimal, we make up for it during the summer. Actually, a lot of folks flip the air conditioning on in mid March and it goes in one fashion or another until November. That’s a lot of air conditioning to pay for. While I’m not as quick to flip the thermostat to HVAC cooling, I can’t do without air conditioning when the heat really settles in. But really, that would be a bit of a nightmare anyway. However, until last summer, I really didn’t give all my effort to getting the maximum efficiency from my HVAC equipment. So I changed that up. Of course, I still started out the summer with an air conditioning tune-up in the spring. That’s ensure the heat pump is working at max efficiency. But the real action came with me sealing up the house. I changed out some sun damaged weather stripping and then went about sealing up every gap I could find. And then, I finally figured out how to program the digital thermostat. This meant that I wasn’t overheating the house during the peak heating hours of the day. Like I said, it really didn’t take all that much but I ended up saving more than 20 percent over the summer before.