Our house is full of people and honestly, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
- I feel fortunate to be able to have all the love we do in that house.
Along with our three kids, we have two more foster kids who help us complete our family. Our home is just barely big enough to fit all of us. While it’s a nice house with quality heating and air, it didn’t have five bedrooms. So with the help of my brother, we turned the downstairs into a sort of suite for our older boys who aren’t far from heading to college. The HVAC company installed a pair of ductless heat pumps down there and the boys love it. But upstairs was sort of a different animal all together. When I replaced the HVAC unit nearly ten years ago, I sort of opted out of getting all the cool HVAC technology. I lived to regret that decision. Just the time spent with trial and error when it came to programming the digital thermostat would have been worth getting the smart thermostat. But what finally got me to call the HVAC company for some help was the fact that there was a wide range of heating and cooling needs. Nobody could really agree on the thermostat setting so it was like all of us had to compromise and nobody got what they really wanted. So along with a smart thermostat, I had the HVAC professionals tweak the existing HVAC unit so we now have zone controlled HVAC. And now, we all have a space upstairs where we can get just the right amount of heating and cooling for each of us.
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