A Rock Kind of Day

Today was a beautiful weather day. Mid-seventies and humidity fifty-five percent humidity. Light breeze of seven miles per hour with an occasional gust of thirteen miles per hour. It is the middle of July!

We get two free HVAC inspections per year as part of a package deal, we signed up for when we had the additional electrical installed for Joe’s dream machine shop. We did this because it gave us a 25% discount on the electrical work and because we wanted someone to show us how to best use the heat and air conditioning since the systems are 4-level. Of course, no system is perfect so we were hoping the HVAC technician could explain the most efficient way to set the thermostats for which floor.

The sellers had told us they just set everything at 68 degrees year-round and left it  alone. We do not use the entire house every day so that sounds expensive to us. Especially since we are used to warmer temperatures in the summer. The high today was 79 degrees, and it was perfect inside the house with the system turned off.

The technician they sent has been extremely helpful, answering all of our questions. He started with the furnace while Joe cleaned the air conditioning unit. Joe said the mud on the panels was caked on and about an inch thick. He looked like he had rolled in the mud when he came in to tell me that he thought it had not been cleaned in a long time – like maybe ten years. He then told me that the technician was impressed that he could take the unit apart to get to everything to clean it. That’s when Joe told him he was a machinist – come to find out the technician’s dad is also a machinist.

 Earlier today, Joe had five cubic yards of stone delivered. He will be using the rock around trees, planter areas, and walkways. We were able to get a before and after of one of the areas he completed today.

Joe and his rock!

Front tree this morning before rock was placed.

Tree this evening after rock was placed.