When I married my husband to 10 years ago I said till death do us part, in sickness and in health.
There was nothing in our vows about bad indoor air quality or how my fantastic friend and I would manage household responsibilities together.
There was no provision for wanting to wring his neck every time the energy bill arrives in the mail or my fantastic friend and I had to pay for another costly emergency heating, cooling, and ventilation repair service. Unfortunately, those have been the most relevant vows that my fantastic friend and I never made. In fact, most of our relationship has been plagued with bad Heating and A/C luck in our old home. From the time that my fantastic friend and I moved in, the heating and cooling system was less than ideal. The air temperature control plan had to be 10 years old, and it operated like it was 20 years old. I really hated relying on the central heating and cooling system alone, because it always produced uneven boiling and frigid indoor temperatures. Instead, I was always adding additional Heating and A/C equipment, such a smaller space heating systems and AC window units to fill the voids that to my central heating and cooling system created. After 10 years of this, you can imagine that I started losing my patience. I could never get my husband to agree that my fantastic friend and I needed to fully update the Heating and A/C system, so I decided it was time to force the issue. I went around the household and clogged all of the air vents from the inside with thick pieces of cardboard. Then, I waited for the coldest day of the year. Sure enough, my husband couldn’t stop complaining about the bad heating inside the house. One week later, my fantastic friend and I had a brand current forced air boiler.