It would be one thing if all I had to do was deal with the heat of the summer.
Where I live, that just isn’t the way it works.
Nope, I get the full version of summer. The heat stays around the triple digits for a several month stretch! We also get a full helping of steep, steep humidity levels. It’s almost as though a person could slice a chunk of steamy sizzling air and hold it in their hand. I can’t even imagine what living in this region must have been like before the modern HVAC unit. My mom is always talking about how her childhood house had nothing but a swamp cooler and some fans. A swamp cooler is an evaporative cooler which cools the air a bit. But, those seasoned things had none of the power that a modern HVAC component has. Thankfully for us, we don’t have to worry about that. I love our HVAC method. Of course, like almost everyone else, we have a heat pump. That thing can genuinely get the job done. It’s genuinely the only way I can survive the summer. But, it’s not just cooling the air in the house. It also is balancing the humidity as it cools. Part of the HVAC unit cooling process is removing moderate air and disappointing it outside. When that happens, a good deal of moisture in the air is also fatigued outside. This is what keeps the humidity level balanced inside your home. Without that process we would be dealing with a whole lot of mold and mildew.