Author: Frank

We were in the process of adding a new room because my husband’s grandmother was coming to live with us. At first, she had protested, saying she did not want to be a burden, but at her age, we would not let her live alone again. We were her only living relatives nearby because my […]

Growing up, I was always the one who was ensuring that all taps were closed and they were not leaking. Brushing my teeth with a running tap was unfathomable. Any form of wastage, even in other things, was unacceptable to me. I got on everyone’s nerves, even if it was for a good cause. It […]

Everybody at work calls me Billie. When I was a new contractor, nobody who initially heard Billie thought it was a man. My colleagues took a little bit of getting used to the name. The most recent incident was when I was installing a ductless heat pump. It was a last-minute assignment since the cooling […]

We had bought the best thermostat on the market, but that was as far as we had gone when it came to new air conditioning equipment Nothing is more annoying and frustrating than a mini-split air conditioner that fails to work in the middle of bad weather. There was a winter when the ductless heat […]

I was watering my herb garden when I heard my neighbor calling over the fence, asking me to go to her house. It sounded urgent, so I turned off the tap and headed to her house. When I got there, she looked calm, indicating that it was nothing serious. I could tell that she was […]

When we were growing up, our home had an electric furnace, and my father actively took care of it by changing the filter and duct sealing. The HVAC duct, in my view, was the least complicated part. We, however, left the air conditioning tune-up to the cooling specialist. It was our bonding time when he […]

At the rate at which the temperature was rising, I would swoon. I tried to reset the thermostat, but it was not working. The temperature control system must have broken down, or maybe we were long overdue for an air conditioning tune-up. There is nothing I detested like being a damsel in distress, but I […]