My friend called me a few nights ago, looking for some advice.
- He was having some troubles with his heating unit.
He told me that even though his heating plan was running it wasn’t heating his home, I knew that our friend’s home was incredibly old, although I also knew that the heating system wasn’t, so I was able to mentally cross out that idea. I was planning on seeing my friend for a couple of days anyway, and after that I could take a look myself. When I went over and visited my friend I looked over the heating unit myself, and it looked fine. I also looked at the control unit which also looked fine. I began to speculate that it genuinely wasn’t an issue with the furnace, most likely with the air duct. My friend had lived in this home for close to 20 years, and I did remember studying that the air duct needed to be updated eventually. I told our friend what I thought it was, but he dismissed our idea. He seemed hyper focused on the HVAC unit, and thought that it had to be an issue with the actual heater. He called a professional HVAC worker out and the air conditioner worker took his time examining his condo and the HVAC unit. The air conditioner worker reached the same conclusion that I did, it was actually the air duct having multiple holes in it and needing to be updated, not the actual central heating system itself. My friend didn’t want to admit that I was right, but silently paid to get the air duct updated.