My husband, Dave, was honored to be asked to  join the board of our local art museum. Dave has devoted his whole career to teaching art history and has authored several books about various art movements. My husband is considered an authority in academic and art circles. Dave has given lectures and also volunteered as a docent for local exhibits over the years. It was a good decision for the board to extend Dave an offer.  I was way overdue, in my opinion. The thing is, Dave is not enjoying the new position all that much. The museum has budget issues. He expected to be advising the curators on acquisitions of available works, but instead, he is trapped in a meeting room researching facility update proposals. The museum has invested in cosmetic updates but has put off essential services for far too long. The aging Heating and A/C equipment needs attention. The heating, cooling and ventilation system is super inefficient and quits at the most inopportune times, like during shows and  fundraisers. This has led to some unexpected and expensive repairs. I told Dave that our HVAC company offers a preventive maintenance program to help prevent downtime and problems. Dave says that the HVAC unit installed at the museum eats up a major percentage of the operating budget. He wants to invest in a total HVAC replacement, which would be far more energy efficient, cheaper to operate and reliable. When humidity levels get above or below the ideal range, it affects the paintings and other exhibits.. The collections must be kept in a stable environment in terms of temperature and moisture. Climate control for any museum is one of the most costly systems.  Heating, cooling and ventilation are a top priority.

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My son’s bedroom  gets unbelievably hot during the summer months. His room is situated at  the back of the house on the ground floor. It was once a screened porch that we converted to provide an extra guest room a few years ago. When my oldest son asked if he could move into  the extra bedroom, I was fine with it. My son had just turned fourteen and wanted some privacy. He was ready for a more grown up bedroom instead of sharing a room with his eight year old brother. The thing is,we never extend the home’s central HVAC system into that space. We simply removed the screens, installed windows, and added some insulation and electricity.  It was meant to be offer a place for guests to sleep for a night or two over the holidays in the winter. My son occupying the bedroom year round was never expected. We’ve tried low cost and simple means of cooling his room effectively and without spending a fortune on energy bills. We started by installing two ceiling fans. The fans circulate cool air from the rest of the house, but he needs to leave his door open. Once he closes the door to sleep, the room then becomes swelteringly hot. We considered a window air conditioner unit, which offers an easy fix, but the room doesn’t  have sash windows. There no where to install the window air conditioner. We hope to cool the single room, so we ended up with a portable but permanently installed cooling unit. It’s vented through a more than four inch hole in an outside wall. In order for the air conditioner idea to cool the room, we needed to send the overheated air outside. It isn’t the prettiest setup but the air conditioner manages to cool the room down and isn’t all that expensive to operate.

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I don’t really know what has happened in the Last year or so, but it seems as though my dog finally began to age during this phase of life. You see, the old man is about 10.5 years old at this point, but he’s consistently been full of pep plus spirit. We’ve never had a problem getting him riled up and super playful, and he’s consistently kept up with our high energy daily activities in the past. All of a sudden within the past few days or so, everything has changed… He’s become stiff plus exhausted all the time, and doesn’t seem as interested in interest as in the past. He also seems to have lost his heat tolerance almost completely. All of a sudden, every sizzling afternoon causes him to completely give up on life. As soon as he begins panting, he is done. We’ve been trying to manage the heat with extra box fans and more intensive A/C in our house, but that hasn’t been adequate to supply him enough temperature relief. That’s the reason we’re currently waiting for the Heating & A/C worker to arrive plus map out our current home for a brand current air conditioner. The two of us want to install zone controlled heating plus cooling so we have the ability to keep a temperature gradient in the house. That way, he can consistently move to a new room if he is feeling uncomfortable plus needs some sort of get away from the heating or cooling system, but so far our Heating & A/C overhaul estimates are likely to clear out our bank accounts, but any amount of money is worth keeping my be appreciated old man comfortable during his last few years.

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Last year when I picked up a single of those paint by number kits at a local craft store I never imagined what would happen next. I thought it would be a fun little interest for myself a single slow Friday. I never could have expected that I would fall in prefer with the interest so swiftly; After one painting, I was hooked on creating more and more. I began counting down one day to when my workday would be ending and my night painting time would begin. Sooner than later, I had so many of my paintings laying around the house and decided I should offload them if possible. I sold a few on ebay, then a few more, and then the phone calls began rolling in. This is when I decided to quit my day work and began painting professionally full time. My house is perfect for the interest, except for the Heating, Ventilation plus A/C system! You see, when I moved in the modern heating and cooling system was already eight years old. It operated well enough, so I never thought to update the whole furnace and AC unit. I didn’t mind the patchy cooling system or humid air most of the time, and figured I would just run the old cooling system into the graveyard before investing in a modern AC unit; However, now that I receive my paycheck from oil painting, I’m find out that my cooling system can’t wait. My paintings have been poorly affected by my indoor air conditions several times already, and I need to establish the ideal environmental conditions for my brand of paint to set the right way. I foresee a full AC overhaul happening in the next month or so, assuming my custom paintings can pay the bill.

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My buddy told me the most bizzare thing the other day! We were talking about our plans for the weekend and he indicated that he genuinely wanted to go to the gym after we finished work. When I made a face and told his that I really hated everything about the gym I was not expecting his reaction at all! Instead of being irritated or thinking I was trying to talk shit about his plans after work, he mentioned to me me that he also particularly hated the gym, then he said the lighting, the artificial indoor air quality, the machines, and the other gym visitors were the bane of his existence. However he kept his membership for one biggest perk, the sauna. She told me that the boiling and humid air was the only thing that helped his skin, scalp, and lung health. He insisted on getting at least ten minutes of intensive sauna time each week, and therefore kept his gym membership, however after thinking about this for a day or more than one, I gave an idea to think about. We should create our own sauna, then using the  greatest washroom in our house, I turned on the shower to the hottest setting and closed the door to lock in the humidity. I dragged a few portable heating units into the section and cranked up the power so that the maximum heat was coming out, and walked out of the boiling room for a few minutes to let my buddy in the front door. When he walked into our steamy washroom, he absolutely gasped out loud. He told me the section was just as boiling and humid as the sauna at his gym, however the environment, cost, and dealer was far better than he could ever expect there; The next day I loaned his our electric heating units and he cancelled his membership.

Once in a blue moon I get into a new hobby, and the new hobby entirely gets into me as well, and while I think I’ve found a fun new activity, the task becomes ingrained in my mind and I cannot stop thinking about our new hobby for weeks! At that point, it becomes a full obsession, i get addicted to the task as if I am an addict. That’s exactly where I’m at right now, after making an elaborate cake for our best friend’s baby shower. I realized that I loved the baking and decorating process that day, and within a few months I had opened our own cake decorating company. I love this new job wholeheartedly, but I’m now having to invest in our home infrastructure to improve our craft. Why? Because I need more AC up in the kitchen! I realized hastily that the undefined was incapable of keeping the air as cool as I would care about as I decorated my intricate cake creations. One morning as I attempted to roll the fondant and apply the icing, both components were literally melting and falling off. I tried to turned down the thermostat, hoping that the central cooling system would be able to bring the air temperature down to a target 69 degrees, however I could not! Now I’m thinking about expanding our central cooling unit in order to pump the dining room full of cool and chilly air. I already contacted the AC company, and they agreed that a minute condenser would solve my issue at hand. It’s going to cost me a lot of cake money, however guess a minute AC component is the only way to keep my cakes and muffins beautiful and our purchasers happy.

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As if it isn’t hard enough to convince my little ones to go to school every year, every month, every single morning. I believe the school really isn’t helping me out! I spend so much time trying to persuade them that public school is super important and they need to take it seriously. It sure doesn’t seem like the principal at their institution feels the same way. Why else would they deny to make minor changes that would vastly better the quality of the building as well as encourage the kids with added indoor comfort while I was in their reading? I mean, from what I’ve read, the school doesn’t even have current indoor air pollen levels control, but the old building is operating a central heating and cooling unit that was installed with the building way back in the 1900’s. That means this heating unit has been in operation for nearly 100 years at this point in time! The A/C plan was installed some time back in the 1968’s when indoor cooling units were brand new technology! Each of the air temperature control systems seem to barely operate at this point. No matter if it’s Winter or summer, the school is constantly stagnant as well as uncomfortable. My kids always tell me about their indoor discomfort; whether they’re dripping with sweat onto their math problems or shivering through math class. I have trouble taking them seriously, but I’ve experienced the same bizare indoor temperature while I was in my frequent visits to the principal’s office. It basically is uncomfortable as well as difficult to endure. As if public school isn’t sad enough, this lack of current Heating as well as A/C device also puts kids at an unfair advantage.

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Every so often it ends up being worth it to have a great attention to detail. I know that almost everyone tends to get wrapped up in their day to day activities as well as stressors, not to mention their phones as well as video games. I guess it’s actually important to unplug and take a look around. If your face is always jammed up into your cell phone, there’s not a very good chance that you’re going to absorb the environment around you! This can be dangerous. For one point, and undoubtedly luxurious, for another. I try my best to take a look around as well as enjoy my surroundings as often as possible. Recently I fell victim to this same sort of disadvantage. It was the middle of a hot, humid summer day, and I was just trying my best to get through a stressful job. I had the control component programmed to match our weekly schedules, so the A/C unit was running on its own every afternoon. It actually let myself and others forget about the indoor air conditions for quite a long time, which felt like a relief at the time with so numerous larger problems at hand. The problem with using our smart control component to control the entire volume of indoor air, however was that we became complacent with the whole set of indoor air conditions equipment. It was months of unregulated Heating, Ventilation and A/C activities before one day I finally set down my phone as well as looked around. That’s when I noticed the mold moving around our windows and I  gasped out loud. Apparently, while I was too tied up keeping my life in order, disregulated humidity had encouraged mold to encroach on our crazy household.

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I’m honestly not sure how these people who job on the road crew can handle such extreme heat coming off the roadway. I’m guess they may be getting some cooling air from the automobile as they fly past, but the exhaust has to take its toll after  awhile. I sat at the start of a long line of cars, waiting to be let forward. The young kid was wiping sweat off his brow and his clothing was soaked with sweat. I heard talk into his walkie talkie and heard him tell someone that he would give a dollar for a bottle of water.  I had just purchased a large bottle of ice cold water at the store so I handed it to him. He said no thanks. I told him I couldn’t get him any a/c, but I would like if he would take the water for free. He truly looked like he needed it more than me. I also told him that it hadn’t been opened yet.  He took the bottle as well as he smiled. He leaned a tiny bit closer to the automobile and I had to giggle. He said that he could guess the a/c coming out of the window as well as it felt truly good. I left my window open for the numerous hours that I sat there, so he could guess a bit of AC for at least a couple of hours.  The next morning, I was stuck in the same line as well as with the same road worker. I was halfway back in the line as well as he came running up to the car. He handed me a fancy gift card for a local diner. He said his family owned it, and he was hoping I went through again so he could thank me. He told me they have plenty of ac in the diner.

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I believe that school buses should come equipped with air conditioning units.  It is now normal for a car, so why not a school bus as well. There is air conditioning system in public transferation, and the boys should be just as important as the people on the public transportation.  Don’t children deserve to have some cool air on the buses? I remember how hot it would be when I drove school bus back in the day. I understand that most of the year is in the fall, winter, in addition to Spring, but there are still some mighty warm and humid afternoons during the beginning in addition to toward the end of school.  Even though we stay in the Northeast, that doesn’t mean that we are totally immune from the heat in addition to humidity. You put fifty children in a massive metal bus, that has a lot of windows for the sunshine to shine into, and you have a terrible situation. I know that some of the drivers don’t allow their children to put the windows down. They are very timid of hands going out the windows.  They don’t want trash thrown out of the windows. Some are just too lazy to put the windows back up when the kids on the bus don’t. They have an open window in addition to a fan, where the children have nothing. Air conditioning must be mandatory for the school buses in addition to the driver should be thrown in jail if it is not used, when they don’t want the windows to be open. They are putting the children in a awful situation that could be potentially life threatening.  They need to have air conditioning system on all school buses.

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