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After calling the HVAC company about an odd noise in the AC unit, I had to wait a couple of days before they could arrive.

• As long as I still had air conditioning, it wasn’t an emergency.

Over the next three days, I hadn’t heard the noise again. I tried to emulate it again, and nothing happened. As if someone had said it in my head, I knew what had happened. I had tried to change the thermostat to make it less cool in the house. That’s when I heard the grumble. Two days later, the HVAC technician arrived at the house. He went out back and waited for the air conditioning unit to turn on so he could hear the noise I was referring to. After ten minutes, I heard him talking about how he was wasting his time because there was nothing wrong with the air conditioning unit. He came and told me he heard no noises. I asked him to let me show him what I was talking about. I walked over to the thermostat and turned the temperature up to seventy-five. Immediately, the grumbling began. He told me it sounded like the fan was trying to slow down and not blow more cooled air into the house. He had never heard such a noise and asked if he could contact the lead HVAC technician and have him come to my house. He wanted him to hear this odd noise that came from the air conditioning unit. I waited another 24 hours before the lead HVAC tech arrived and found out what was wrong with the AC unit.

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I asked about switching cars, but they had none available until I reached my destination.

Last month I had to take a 1000 mile trip for work. The company rented a car for me so I wasn’t using my car, and they gave me an expense credit card. I wouldn’t need to pay anything out of pocket. I was hitting a lot of construction during my trip, which if I had to stop much more, I would be late for my first meeting. Halfway there, I lost the air conditioning. I called the company and asked them to notify the car rental office and see if I could get a new car, while explaining about the lack of air conditioning. The rental company called me on the internal ‘intercom’ and asked me questions about the AC unit. They wanted me to stop at one of their lots and have it repaired immediately, but I was already running late. They gave me the location of a car lot that was close to a hotel. I could stop for the night, but I couldn’t get the air conditioning repaired until the morning. I asked about switching cars, but they had none available until I reached my destination. The next five hundred miles were taking me further south and into more intense heat than I had traveled from. It was a long, hot trip without air conditioning, but once I got out of the first meeting, I could take the car to the rental center and trade it for an even nicer car with good air conditioning. If something happens to the AC unit on the way home, I’ll have the consolation of knowing it was only going to get cooler and not hotter.

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I had to go to school last week and left my partner to order our new AC unit. Before I left, I wrote all the things we wanted in an air conditioning unit, and told him to talk to the HVAC company. I even called to remind him where we put the list, and to check the price and installation fees. After the HVAC technician left, he called and told me they would deliver the air conditioning unit the following week. I was glad I didn’t have to take off work that day. There were so many projects on my desk that I wasn’t sure I was going to complete them all by the deadline. It was nice to know I could go home to an enjoyable meal and relax for a while. I wouldn’t need to talk to the HVAC technician and add another two hours to my already ten-hour workday I already had. I walked in the door and saw the work order for the new AC unit sitting on my desk. The AC unit wasn’t anything like we wanted. I wanted an AC unit with a SEER of at least 21. It was to be energy efficient and heavy enough for a load of at five people. My partner’s parents were moving in and we were adopting a child. When I talked to him, he was all smiles. I asked what happened to the list he was to follow. He looked sheepish and said he saved us over $1000 by making these choices. I called the HVAC company and changed the order while my partner quietly walked into the kitchen.

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I had gone to college and tried several careers before deciding to be an HVAC technician.

When I first went to college, I was thinking about going to HVAC technical training.

I saw the brochures in the admissions office, and I took them home. I also had brochures for other careers. I was only eighteen, and many things were calling to me. I could choose between going to pre-med, legal classes, and many other things, including being a teacher. I looked at the brochures for HVAC classes, and it didn’t sound as interesting as other careers. Four years in college had me even more confused about my choice of careers in the future. I had to choose a major, and I chose something stupid, even though I had no interest in it. After graduation, mom and dad were eager to hear what I was leaning toward now. I thought about more school, but over the past four years, I kept thinking about those HVAC brochures. I considered my future and getting a degree in HVAC engineering, but I had taken all the wrong classes for that. I attended HVAC technical training, which had my mom upset, but my dad was happy. All he said was that he wished I had chosen HVAC before they had put out all the money for college. I didn’t mean to cost mom and dad a lot of money, but I knew in my heart that I wanted to be an HVAC technician and some of my classes would benefit me. I just wanted to have other options open in case I changed my mind about HVAC.

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Talk about putting fear in your students; I had an instructor who knew how to do it.

• Right at the beginning of his first lecture to new HVAC students, he informs them that many would fail the class.

Some would get through certification classes and fail the final exam and need to retake it or quit. I saw some students smiling as if they had heard this before or didn’t believe it could be that hard. Other students were wide-eyed and I could see they were worried they would be one of the many that failed. My dad was the instructor, and he always let the senior HVAC technician give his speech before starting HVAC training classes. It scared some, but it made them work harder to achieve their goals. I sat in class this year, and when I heard the initial lecture, even I was worried, and I grew up in the world of HVAC. I wasn’t sure if I really wanted to take the class, if I was already doomed to fail, according to Mike. When I was getting ready to go home that afternoon, I heard some guys talking about class. One was saying it was going to be a breeze. Another said about the speech and how it was meant to make you work harder and not be complacent. Knowing my dad, it was the latter, but knowing Mike, he just wanted the students to take the HVAC classes seriously. I already knew how important HVAC was to people, and I planned on taking every lesson seriously. I wanted to be the next owner of the HVAC company.

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I had to call my wife to pick me up at the hospital last week.

An ambulance had taken me to the hospital, and my car was at the HVAC company.

By the time my wife got to the hospital, she was panicking. No one had told her exactly what happened, and she was imagining the worst. My boss was waiting for her to arrive and trying to calm her down. She asked what happened, and he told her I had an accident while going to the back of a house to repair an air conditioning unit. There was a toy truck hidden in the long grass in the backyard. I caught the car under my foot, landed face first on a toy truck, and my leg twisted, breaking my knee and ankle. I was embarrassed and upset for not looking more closely, especially since the grass was wet, which made my fall more dangerous. I had no control over my feet. I was upset when my wife laughed, but then she stopped when she saw me. I had stitches over my eye, which was already turning black and blue. They were preparing me for surgery on my knee and telling her they would apply a cast to my foot and lower leg while in surgery. I never thought of HVAC as a dangerous job, but then I never encountered a yard with foot long grass filled with trucks and cars. When I get back to work again, I’m going to tell the dispatcher to let people know they need to keep dogs in the house and mow their lawns before the HVAC technician arrives.

 

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I was looking forward to going home and relaxing for a couple of hours before my friends were going to arrive.

I thought my work was done for the day and I could go home early.

I looked at my desk and something was amiss. I noticed I had a file that had fell onto the floor. I had more paperwork that had to be completed before I could go home. I was tired of looking at HVAC specs and I wasn’t in the mood to work anymore. I had hyped myself up about going home early, and I was blaming my mood on the paperwork. I was the one who had mislaid the file, and it wasn’t anyone’s fault but my own. I started transcribing the notes about the new air conditioning unit that needed to be ordered. I had all of the computer work done, except for putting in the order. I started the process of putting the AC unit specs into the ordering website, when my computer glitched. In my haste to get done, I hadn’t saved my work. Everything I had been working on for the last hour was no longer there. I tried to hit the back button, which only made it worse. I was sitting there with tears in my eyes, when the boss walked in. I told him what had happened, and he walked over to my computer. With a few clicks, he had all of my work restored. He told me he had made the same mistake several times, and realized there were many ways to restore your page. I got the AC order into the company on time, and I headed home to have fun with my friends.

 

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You would think that growing up in an area that has winter seven months a year would make you okay with the cold the weather.

Most people may be okay with it, but I never was.

I couldn’t wait to grow up, go to school, get a job, and move out of this area. The job I got sounded ideal, and I thought I would be travelling. My job didn’t give me the chance to travel, because they thought they needed me here more. When I broke my leg, I couldn’t work, and I was stuck in the house for almost four months. By the time my leg healed, it was winter, and I didn’t want to leave the house. I had an excellent furnace, and it had recently been cleaned and serviced. I knew how comfortable my home was and thought I would be a fool to leave it when I had heat inside, and nothing but cold and snow outside. I didn’t want to go outside and hop on a snowmobile that didn’t have a heating system, and go across the tundra to other people’s houses that didn’t have heat. I worked for the oil company and I would trace where the problems were occurring. I decided that since I still had rehab for my leg I was going to stay home until June. i would then find another job so I could move. Before the end of winter, I was going to have a job where I didn’t need to worry about snow and cold. I wanted to live where air conditioning was mandatory and winter was something you read about on the internet.

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I know I complain when it gets cold outside.

I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t have some complaint about leaving their warm home and going out into the bitter cold every morning.

If I wanted to work, this was the only choice I had. When my boss asked me if I would want to move if I got a hefty raise and a new position in the company; I had to think about it. When he said I would move south, I looked out at the snow piling up and I didn’t even think about it when I said yes. Now, I am wondering why I didn’t question where I would live or for how long. I am now permanently living in an area where winter temperatures are in the seventies. It is always humid, whether it is winter or summer. I have excellent air conditioning in my new home, but I still complain. There is something about walking out of a cool house and into sweltering heat that is almost as bad as walking out into snow. I am kicking myself for not asking about where I was moving to. My mother questioned me about my choice of moving, knowing I hated the humidity as much as I hated the cold. I couldn’t think of anywhere I would always be comfortable, but where I am now, I don’t need to worry about snow. I’m pretty sure that as long as my air conditioning continues to run well, I’m going to learn to love it here. Maybe I can convince my mom to move here with me. She loves the south and the weather we have.

 

They asked if I wanted to relocate?

I’m not a warm weather person, but I can handle the heat.

When the humidity is high, I feel like I am dying.

I can’t breathe, and it feels like I am wearing the air. I know I’m not the only one who feels this way, but this is the reason I bought an air conditioning unit. The problem is that I bought a window AC unit to save money. It works fine to combat the heat, but it does nothing for the humidity. My father told me to quit procrastinating and get the central air conditioning I needed. They built central air conditioning units to remove the humidity from the air along with cooling the air. If I had put my money into a new central air conditioning unit when the old one broke, I wouldn’t be feeling so poorly all the time. I wasn’t sure what to say to him because he was right. I called the HVAC company the next day and requested they measure my house for a new AC unit. The old one had never completely removed the humidity, and I wanted to make sure I had one that would do the job this time. After careful measurements, and deciding how much of a load I need for my growing family would put on it, I knew what size air conditioning unit we needed. Now I had to decide on the amount of efficiency I wanted. Since I wanted it to run efficiently, I chose an AC unit with a SEER of 21 and ordered it the same day.

 

 

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