It’s getting to be the time of year when most everyone in my neighborhood will be flipping the thermostat from heating to cooling.
It’s not that there is much HVAC heating around here anyway.
But there is call for having the thermostat on heating during the winter even if it’s only occasional. In a month from now, the temperatures will start hitting the mid 80’s and with that comes plenty of heat pumps cranking up. Soon, I will open my door to hear a symphony of heat pumps all doing there HVAC cooling thing. But that’s not the way we do it in our house. While the air conditioning costs may be not to expensive in the spring, the summer is a different situation. Yet, if you keep the thermostat in the low 70’s in the spring, more often than not, that’s where it will be all summer and that’s going to get expensive. So many of my neighbors spend the equivalent of a luxury car payment on the air conditioning of their homes. It’s just ridiculous if you ask me. For us, we don’t spend on HVAC cooling like that and there is a simple reason for it. We just don’t jump for the air conditioning as soon as the temperatures start to climb. Nope, we actually try to throw a little nature in there and acclimate to the heat during the spring. Sure, by the time June gets here, we’re turning on the HVAC cooling. But that thermostat is parked in the mid 80’s for the heat of the day and then lowered a bit to sleep nicely. And we pay far, far less for HVAC cooling than our neighbors.