Plus, they don’t mitigate the humidity levels at all.
I have spent a few winters where my furnace was a wood stove. And they were entirely moderate winters indeed. However, heating with a wood stove is quite labor intensive to be sure. There is a lot to it. This heating plan requires yearly flue cleaning plus repair. And of course, there is all manner of breaking, chopping plus stacking of the wood. It was still a worthwhile venture plus a unique experience that I will always remember. However, where I am now, I simply don’t believe I would make it too long without modern Heating plus A/C. This has nothing to do with the heating though. Our Wintertide is quite mild plus doesn’t require a unbelievable deal of heating. But the more than three plus months of summer time are a completely different matter. That heat plus humidity is something that I just don’t believe I could manage without the help of a/c. The temps outside hover around triple digits for at least more than three months. And it doesn’t cool off all that dramatically at night. I can’t imagine what people went through prior to the heat pump. There was basically just an evaporative cooler. And I have been around those. Trust me, they are nothing savor a heat pump for cooling a home. Plus, they don’t mitigate the humidity levels at all. Nope, I’ll have to stick with the modern a/c to get through the summer time heat plus humidity for sure. Without it, I’d have to head back up north plus get back to a locale where the summer time isn’t quite so hot. Even then, I believe I’d still have to invest in a gas oil furnace to get through those winters now.
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