My very first real, hard core winter was the toughest I have ever tried to manage. Of course, I don’t have all that much to go on either. Where I hail from, there is the heat pump. And when the weather turns a bit chilly, I would simply move the thermostat from cooling to heating. The heat pump would kick on for a bit and the chill in the house was gone. This is all I knew about winter and HVAC equipment. There just wasn’t that much need for the heater side of the HVAC. One of the first things I noticed when I first moved up north was that the heating method in my house was different. The familiar HVAC cabinet outside was still there but that was for air conditioning alone. No there was a different heater in my basement and it was a gas furnace. And this thing was pretty intimidating at first. I had never seen or used a furnace as a heater. But that first winter, I was super disappointed in my gas furnace. I thought it was supposed to be new and of good quality. However, I was really cold and the gas furnace seemed to run all the time. In early spring, I had the HVAC company send out an HVAC technician to get do the air conditioning tune-up. And I discussed my disappointment with the gas furnace with the HVAC professional. He immediately assured me it wasn’t the gas furnace, it was the house. He suggested that I spend the rest of the year sealing up my house because that was why the gas furnace was running all the time.
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