Silence is not always golden
When you own a house you become very familiar with the noises it makes.
The creaking stairs, shuttering sounds of the doors and windows, and the sounds the appliances make as they turn on and off. You become so intune with your home that you are immediately aware when something is wrong. This was the case last month when I awoke to the dead silence that filled the air. My house is never really quiet because there is always one or more appliance motor running. Total silence meant that something was probably wrong. I started walking around and checking things out. First, I headed to the kitchen. I opened the fridge and it was running ok, then I checked the freezer and hot water heater. All seemed normal there too. Then dread settled over me as I came to the realization that my HVAC system was not running. I was used to it cycling on and off and I hadn’t heard that the entire time I had been awake. That was the last thing I needed was a repair bill for this system as it normally costs well over a hundred dollars. I needed to have it working because the nights were getting really cold because it was late fall and I knew that soon it would be freezing. I called later that morning to set an appointment with my HVAC dealer. Thankfully they had one available and I only had to wait a few hours. The technician had it up and running in just under an hour and even though it cost me I was glad to have the system humming along again and making its normal noises.