About a year ago I was living with a couple of friends out of a desperate situation.
I didn’t have anywhere else to go so I wound up at their house like a homeless people animal one day.
As such, I wasn’t in a position to complain about their home, their cleanliness, or their heating and cooling mishaps. Several times during my stay there, we had issues with the energy bills and the central air quality control management system. There were a few occasions when I woke up to find that there was absolutely no air conditioning in the house in the middle of the summer. When I would ask them about the thermostat settings, they would nonchalantly reply that they had failed to pay the energy bill that month. In the summertime, I could generally get by with open windows and natural ventilation. And then, winter came. The brutal outdoor air temperatures that we experience throughout winter are nothing to sneeze at. You absolutely need to have a central heating device to keep your family comfortable and safe. Unfortunately, they were no better about the HVAC system in cold weather than in warm temperatures. One day, I woke up and found that there was absolutely no heating in the house. They kept insisting that they had actually paid the energy company this time, so we needed a professional HVAC technician to come out and inspect the broken furnace. Of course, we couldn’t get a heating and cooling professional at the house for at least 3 days. On the 4th day, after the air quality control specialist arrived, we found out that the furnace had been fine all along. In fact, the pilot light had gone out. After days of ice cold torture, we could have easily fixed the central heating device ourselves. I probably would have inspected it if I had believed that they paid the energy bill.