Talk about what products you can use that are good for your planet! | | Technical Question about Heat pump | | Does anyone hear use a air to air heat pump to heat there homes. I had one installed last year and I am not inpressed with it at all. Last night and today the temp dropped to -19. When I went to bed last night I set the thermostat to 72 and when i got up this morning the house temp was at 63. I cannot get any heat from the system, has anyone else had this problem? The Heat Pump is working but just putting out cool air. | |
| | | Sending incomplete parts! | | This is a follow up on my discussion this morning.The repair guy came and looked at the parts they sent and was not happy because they didn't send a complete set of parts and, of course, the CRITICAL part wasn't there!So, darn it, my dish washer STILL isn't fixed!And boy was HE angry! I think he was biting his lips and tongue to stop from cussing out the person who didn't send the complete set of parts.Have you ever had this problem? I've had it repeatly with Sears and my fridge - the darn thing beeps ENDLESSLY and they can't seem to get the right parts here! But, as soon as the repair guy comes, it stops!You have any repair horror stories? | |
| | Do you leave your heating on at Night? | | When it's Cold?
Here in Australia it is winter and the nights have been mighty cold. I was wondering If people left their heating on over night???I turn mine on in the late afternoon depending but ususally around 4pm and turn it off when I go to bed and I set it to come on in the morning at 6am and turn it off about 9-10am again and give it a rest although somedays the house gets really cold so I turn it back on throught the day...Please share what you do with your heating and what type it is? | |
| | | heating | | What type of heating done use? Here in Italy is beginning the winter and we start to turn on the heating. I use the gas boiler, but the gas is very expensive.
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| | Do you plan your life to fufill your travel dreams? | | Well today was a very interesting day! Had to have new duct work put in for the heat pump furnace conversion. Which means I had to bundle up in my one home whilst the poor workers crawled under my house to get the work started. I have a bulletin board in my office, it has a calender, business articles, photo's of the great barrier reef and the Egyptian pyramids. When a worker came to change the base heat registries he asked me about those 2 photo's. Said he always wanted to go to Australia. But that wasn't likely to happen in this lifetime. I asked him why, told me life was too expensive...Later, the same worker and I had a small arguement since he moved my modem and somehow I lost connectivity to the net. He told me that the wire that now had a broken clip was like that. I knew better, only got it 2 weeks ago! Anyway, he says he has the same modem, same laptop, 42 inch flat screen tv, WII, Playstation 3 all at home so he knows about wiring. Well we resolved the dispute since I was able to get the cord to work, but he broke it by moving it without my permission and then denied it. Don't care for that. But here's the kicker, he says he's always dreamed of going to... | |
| | Fix the old one or buy a new one??? | | Well, our heat pump is shot, and we're looking at major bucks to fix/replace it. Since the unit is pretty old they may not be able to find a campatable peice and we may end up replacing the whole thing. IF they can find the compatable peice, it's going to be around $3,000. If they can't, it'll be around $6,000. Personally, I'd rather just get it replaced with an energy efficient unit instead of trying to find the old one. Yeah, we're going to pay more today for it, but it'll knock the electric bill down if we get the new one. It'll probably pay for itself in a couple years.Which would you do? Save the money on the unit, buy a replacement and have higher electric bills. Or buy the newer, energy efficient unit, pay a lot more now, but have lower electric bills forever? | |
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