Farmer H was home before me on Thursday evening. He said he had gone down to the basement to look for something in his safe room. That's not the room where he keeps the three safes. They're in his workshop. The safe room has concrete walls and a metal ceiling, as a refuge during a tornado warning. Farmer H also keeps a few of his collectible treasures in there.
Anyhoo... "I noticed that the heat wasn't on in there. And the lights didn't work. So I got to checking, and the breaker was tripped. So I reset the breaker. But the heat pump ain't workin'."
"But we have heat."
"Yeah. It's been running on Auxiliary Heat."
"Probably since you set it on that a while back, when I asked why the fan is constantly blowing, but not always heating."
"No. I didn't. Because you had a fit. Anyway, it's been running on that. The unit in the basement has heating coils. But the heat pump out back ain't working. I called my HVAC Guy, and he said he'll send someone out here tomorrow."
"Will you be here? I can't get up and answer the door before they get away. Will they have to come in and mess with the thermostat?"
"No. It's all out back. There's the breaker, and the unit. That's all they need."
"How much is THIS going to cost? We just got the new HVAC system!"
"It ain't gonna cost nothin'. It's still under waranty."
"I'm not so sure about your HVAC Guy. It might be time to use somebody else. Something's always going wrong. And they charged us a fortune for that coolant. Then the one in the flip house quit working because a wire was not hooked up. And the one in your shop didn't work for about a month, and you were freezing."
"This one was brand new. Right out of the box. It ain't nothin' they did wrong. Stuff happens."
Well. HVAC Guy is 3-for-3 on stuff "just happening" with his product installations. I hope they don't mess up anything so our Auxiliary Heat doesn't work. We've got a cold wave coming in this weekend, with lows in the teens and single digits.
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