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I am always amazed at how many people know this stuff deeply, I feel most people actually live in apartments with either central building heating or district he
by DanielHB 3y ago
I am always amazed at how many people know this stuff deeply, I feel most people actually live in apartments with either central building heating or district heating and never ever need to think about this stuff.
Especially considering buildings have less wall/roof area to lose heat from on a dwelling by dwelling basis, even a small-ish building with gas heating with average insulation would still be much cheaper to heat than a house by square meter.
- Tagbert 3y agoIn the US, housing is heavily biased to single-family houses. About 81 million detached single-family vs about 30 million multi-unit housing. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1042111/single-family-vs-multifamily-homes-usa/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1042111/single-family-vs...
- bob1029 3y agoIn the US, you have to be fairly diligent as a homeowner to not get taken for a ride by the various HVAC technicians. The more you know about your own system, the more you can save. Even if you don't intend to do any work yourself.
- kube-system 3y agoI know better and I still get taken for a ride. When it's 90F+ outside and the start capacitor fails on my AC compressor, I don't have much room for negotiation.
- sokoloff 3y agoGiven that you know what it is and know which end of a screwdriver to hold, you could reasonably have a start (or combined start/run cap) that matches your unit on hand and DIY replace it before calling anyone.