Automation system contributes to energy savings

My husband and I strive to be as environmentally conscientious as possible. For the majority of our commutes, we walk, ride our bikes and take public transportation. We grow many of our own fruits and vegetables, compost organic kitchen waste and make use of rainwater for irrigation. Our home is outfitted with a geothermal heat pump, which is considered the most environmentally friendly heating and cooling system by the Environmental Protection Agency. Just recently, we implemented a smart home automation system. This upgrade contributes to significant energy savings. The automated operation of important systems and appliances is also wonderfully convenient, reducing time and effort. The automation system caters to our daily schedule and preferences as well as the changing demands of the weather. Incorporating a smart thermostat and occupancy sensors, the system adjusts temperature to ensure comfort while also minimizing energy consumption. It knows when the home is empty and when specific rooms are occupied. With zone control, the heat pump provides heating or cooling for comfort in only those areas that are in use. We have also invested into smart blinds. During the winter, the automation system opens up the blinds in the morning to allow in sunlight. The warmth helps to reduce heating demands. In the summer, the blinds are kept closed to prevent sunlight from adding to the workload of the air conditioner. Our lights are also managed by the automation system. They automatically turn on when we enter a room and turn off when we leave. All of these operations contribute to a reduced carbon footprint and also save a great deal of money on our monthly utility bills.

 

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Don’t need heat when you have dogs and husband

When I was younger, I remember how uncomfortable it was trying to get by. When you’re just starting out in life and people will only pay you eight or $10 an hour, it’s pretty difficult to find a place to live and food to put in your mouth. There were many times that I lived on Ramen and granola bars for weeks on end because that’s all I could afford at the grocery store. There were months that I had to walk everywhere because I couldn’t pay for car insurance or gas. In fact, they were definitely times that I had to turn off the indoor air temperature control equipment because I couldn’t afford to power my heating and cooling appliances. To save money I would literally disconnect to the thermostat and give it to my friend for safekeeping so I couldn’t be tempted to change the indoor air quality even if I wanted to. Drastic times and drastic measures. I remember those days being uncomfortable in many ways, most literally in the area of air quality and relative body temperature. Now that I’m older, I don’t struggle with affording my heating and cooling equipment nearly the same way that I once did. However, I’ve also found that it’s not entirely necessary to rely on my forced air furnace in the same way that I needed to as a young, single woman. As an adult, my winter nights aren’t so shockingly cold because I’m never alone in bed. Between my three 100 lb dogs and my husband, I can rarely find a cool spot in the bed.

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Tired of forced air furnace; bought a dog with allergies

Finally, I decided it was time to take matters into my own hands and force the heating issue.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been asking my husband if we could get a real HVAC upgrade. Back when we got married, we moved into this little old house and we’ve been living with the ancient infrastructure ever since. We’ve never bother to upgrade the plumbing, electrical system, or heating, cooling, and ventilation plan. It always seems like we had more pressing matters to deal with, such as repairing our broken down vehicles and taking care of unexpected medical bills. As such, the HVAC system has always been pushed to the back burner and we’ve continued to pay out the nose for our energy bills each month. Over time, it seems like our heating, cooling, and ventilation system has truly gotten less efficient and we’ve been paying even more for basic indoor comfort. Each month, my savings account gets a little lower when the stupid Energy bill shows up. Frankly, I’ve been convinced that the heating system is our biggest thorn in our side. I think that the forced air furnace is extremely inefficient as well as dirty to operate. I’ve been trying to push for radiant heated floors, but my husband never wants to make the HVAC investment. Finally, I decided it was time to take matters into my own hands and force the heating issue. I went out and adopted a dog with severe allergies. When I showed him to my animal loving husband and told him that he required advanced air temperature and air quality control, his heart melted. This poor dog needed clean indoor air or he would never stop sneezing. We had brand new radiant heated floors within a week.
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Needed to prove a point – blocked air vents at work

Drastic times call for drastic measures.

How many times have you heard that? Now, how many times have you heard that in regards to an indoor heating, cooling, and ventilation plan? Probably not all that often.

Unfortunately, this is something that I’ve had to deal with in the past several months. For as long as I’ve been at my job, everyone there has been pretending that the heating and cooling system was working just fine. Despite the fact that every day when we come into the production facility, the indoor air temperature will either be excruciatingly hot or insanely cold, they try to tell me that this is how commercial HVAC systems work. It’s always been clear to me that the HVAC system was not operating properly and we needed to consider having a true air temperature control specialist come into inspect our failing air quality devices. However, I could never get the upper managers to agree with my simple ventilation service plan. Since no one would ever listen to me, I decided it was time to take matters into my own hands. I would make them uncomfortable until they would pay attention to the inefficient and expensive heating, cooling, and ventilation plan. I came in early one day and blocked all of the vents in the office. There was zero heating or cooling entering the small, contained office space. Then, I set off a stink bomb in the office and left. When my boss came in the next day, he immediately called me and told me it was time to sign up a professional heating, cooling, and ventilation appointment

 

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Hunkering down in the heat

These days, I am really enjoying the cool air and cloudy skies that we’ve been experiencing.

It might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I truly appreciate the fall season. Even on the more difficult, rainy, and chilly days I am in heaven.You see, when I wake up and see that the outdoor environment is cold and dreary, it gives me permission to feel similarly. Rather than trying to be warm and sunshiny, I can easily hide out inside and enjoy the dark moodiness of the outdoor climate. To me, cold and stormy days signal an incredibly productive day indoors. Rather than running around outside and doing errands, I’m going to stay inside with my central heating system and enjoy the beautiful warmth of modern indoor air temperature control. I like to use my cold and rainy days as big work day is. I can sit down on a computer and hammer out hours of work for my job, all the while appreciating the streaming heat to that comes pouring out of the air vent onto my feet. I can wrap up in a blanket and set a space heater next to me if I’m feeling even cozier. It’s easy to sit down and concentrate fully on my work when there’s no distraction from singing birds or streaming sunshine outside. Seeing the dark, cold climate reinforces that I have nothing better to do than stay inside in the safety of my indoor heating and cooling system. As long as I’m being productive, I don’t even feel bad about cranking the heat up to 80 degrees all day long.

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Thanksgiving to do list

Every year around this time life gets extremely busy and hectic.

We’re supposed to be settling in and enjoying at the mystical feeling of the holiday season, but instead there’s way too much to worry about. I can’t ever get my head out of my butt to enjoy the holiday spirit or sense of world peace that were supposed to appreciate. Instead, I’m too busy running from store to store trying to complete errands before my family comes into town and complicates my life even further. Yes, unfortunately I am the one who has to host Thanksgiving. That means I have an awful lot to do, inside and outside of the house. One of the things that I used to forget but would never overlook again is to professionally service the heating and cooling system. After I spend days and weeks cleaning the entire house and purchasing of beautiful Thanksgiving decorations, you better believe that I’m going to make sure the indoor environment is perfect. This includes my indoor air quality and the cleanliness of the air we breathe. I don’t want dirty air ducts spreading more dust all over the house after I cleaned and detailed it. I don’t want to worry about hair or debris floating on to my beautiful Thanksgiving dinner before we have a chance to eat it. I also don’t want to risk a complete heating failure or the possibility of my cranky old grandma complaining about uneven indoor air temperatures. If I can’t have beautiful, evenly heated indoor spaces for Thanksgiving, I might as well cancel the entire family holiday.

 

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Staying at my boyfriend’s for heat

I’m not exactly sure what is going on with my living situation right now, but I can tell you that it’s extremely uncomfortable. My roommates are being a bit strange and that means that the indoor air temperature is extremely uncomfortable as well. I started noticing about a week ago that the indoor temperature was extremely cold. It seemed like the thermostat wasn’t working or we were having some kind of heating failure. I didn’t want to seem pushy, so I didn’t say anything to my roommates about the unpleasant indoor air quality at first. I silently dealt with the uneven hot and cold temperatures inside the house, and bundled up in as many sweatshirts as I could. However, eventually I did ask them what was going on with the heating system. It’s nonchalantly responded that the pilot light has gone out and they’re waiting for the landlord to come fix it. I didn’t want to pressure them, so I didn’t tell them that that was a bit ridiculous. I’m not sure why they didn’t want to just relight the pilot themselves. However, I can tell you that I can’t continue to wait for the landlord to show up for this basic heating service. I’ve been freezing my butt off for way too long now. I don’t know how I can continue living in there, especially as the outdoor air temperature continues to drop next week. Instead, I’ve been slowly moving my things over to my boyfriend’s house and sleeping warmly in his working heat. I know that this plan can’t work forever, but until the furnace is running effectively again, I will be crashing here.

 

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The best prank

When I was much younger, I had a lot of spare time and energy to dream of fun things to do.

Life wasn’t so serious, and I definitely took advantage of my youthful enthusiasm.

I enjoyed going out with friends, getting into Shenanigans, and finding Adventures every single day. Even without much spare time or money, we found ways to entertain ourselves in our small and Rural Farm Town. It wasn’t always easy, but we were fairly creative and ready to get into trouble at any time. One year, this is what inspired our prank war that raged on for the remainder of high school. It was one of the most fun experiences of my adolescence and possibly my entire life. Honestly, I still look back fondly on one particular prank and pat myself on the back for my ingenuity. Back in the day, we got into a car prank war and took turns putting funny things on each other’s vehicles in the middle of the night. One vehicle got post it noted, and the next week our opponents vehicle was wrapped in saran wrap. We were getting more and more creative, when I came up with the best plan of them all. Instead of keeping my decorations outside, we could utilize the indoor air temperature control equipment to spread some decor inside. I was going to leverage the car heating and cooling system for my own prank. I broke into my friend’s car one night and opened up all the air vents. I tipped the air vents backwards so that I could easily dump fine glitter down into the plastic air ducts. After that, I aimed the air vents back into the car and cranked the onboard heating and cooling system to maximum power. When my friend got in his car that morning, the HVAC system sent air flying through the vents and glitter went everywhere. He never got it all out of that car.

 

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Don’t need heat when you have pets in addition to husband

When I was younger, I remember how uncomfortable it was trying to get by, however when you’re just starting out in life in addition to people will only pay you eight or $10 an hour, it’s pretty difficult to find a place to live in addition to food to put in your mouth! There were numerous times that I lived on Ramen in addition to granola bars for weeks on end because that is all I could afford at the grocery store.

There were months that I had to walk everywhere because I could not pay for automobile insurance or gas… In fact, they were really times that I had to turn off the indoor air temperature control component because I could not afford to power my heating in addition to cooling appliances.

To save money I would literally disconnect to the temperature control in addition to deliver it to my neighbor for safekeeping so I could not be tempted to change the indoor air quality even if I wanted to! Drastic times in addition to drastic measures. I remember those days being uncomfortable in numerous ways, most literally in the part of air quality in addition to relative body temperature! Now that I am older, I do not struggle with affording my heating in addition to cooling component nearly the same way that I once did. However, I have also found that it’s not actually necessary to rely on my forced air heater in the same way that I needed to as a young, single guy! As an adult, my winter time nights aren’t so shockingly freezing because I am never alone in bed, then between my three 100 lb pets in addition to my husband, I can rarely find a cool spot in the bed.

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Thanksgiving to do list

Every year around this time life gets seriously busy plus hectic.

We’re supposed to be settling in plus enjoying at the mystical feeling of the holiday season, however instead there is way too much to worry about.

I can’t ever get my head out of my butt to adore the holiday spirit or sense of world peace that were supposed to appreciate. Instead, I am too busy running from store to store trying to complete errands before my family comes into neighborhood plus complicates my life even further, yes, unfortunately I am the one who has to host Thanksgiving… That means I have an poor lot to do, inside plus outside of the house. One of the things that I used to forget however would never overlook again is to professionally service the heating plus cooling system. After I spend afternoons plus weeks cleaning the entire property plus purchasing of appealing Thanksgiving decorations, you better assume that I am going to make sure the indoor environment is perfect. This includes my indoor air quality plus the cleanliness of the air we breathe. I don’t want dirty air ducts spreading more dust all over the property after I cleaned plus detailed it. I don’t want to worry about hair or debris floating on to my appealing Thanksgiving supper before we have a opportunity to eat it. I also don’t want to risk a complete heating failure or the opportunity of my cranky aged Grandma complaining about uneven indoor air hot plus cold temperatures. If I can’t have appealing, evenly heated indoor spaces for Thanksgiving, I might as well cancel the entire family holiday.

 

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