I work from home and hardly go out. After losing my job a few months back, I decided to change several things in my life. One of them being, no dates, parties or meaningless group meetings. Now, I only attend conventions, seminars and expos. Usually I am alone but when I get company from one of the few friends I kept, we are on. The last expo I attended was about real estate and homeownership, so when a heating dealership came into town to showcase their heating business products, I jumped onto the opportunity. The objective was to sensitize residents on how best to maintain and get the best out of heat and AC products. I have a narrow understanding of how heating works. However, to understand how a furnace or heater can save me money with proper use, I needed to first understand what furnace/heater installation entails and what really requires the call of a HVAC repairman to come and carry out heater maintenance. From what I gathered, the heat pump might face a lot of challenges based on its positioning around the house. But what caught my attention was the connection between hybrid heating and repeated boiler repair. The more the latter keeps happening the more it becomes necessary to replace it to improve efficiency of the former. Alternatively, you can also switch to hydronic heating if you can afford to install it and abandon your traditional AC equipment altogether. All in all, taking measures to ensure that proper HVAC maintenance is observed is key. The demonstration on how all these equipment work and the approach to maintenance was well done and quite an eye opener in this convention. I am glad I turned up for the showcase.