I’m winding down the up-to-date home preparations for the coming winter.
When you face the sort of Winter that the two of us do, you have to be prepared to suffer.
That’s pretty much it. Either you be prepared for Winter time or suffer the high costs of heating or even worse, a modern Heating as well as A/C heating breakdown. I’m not interested in dealing with either of these situations so, I spend the Summer as well as fall preparing a bit for the winter. We have a gas stove which is our primary heating source. However, I also have a wood stove that works as both another heat source as well as an emergency heating alternative. So I spend a surprising amount of time in the Summer cutting, splitting as well as stacking firewood. The prep work for the Heating as well as A/C component is the domain of the Heating as well as A/C technician. The Heating as well as A/C serviceman comes out to do the heating service in early fall. This ensures that the gas stove is running at top efficiency while also mitigating the odds of a mid-Winter Heating as well as A/C heating implosion. But I also make sure that the up-to-date home is prepared to hold in the heat as well as keep the freezing air out. That means changing the big storm doors, replacing weather stripping as well as maybe adding some extra insulation. But I finish all the preparations by covering the Heating as well as A/C cabinet with a hard plastic covering. That shell very came in handy last year when a giant icicle came crashing down on the modern Heating as well as A/C cabinet. It is very much to be prepared for winter. That icicles plummeted from more than 40 feet as well as would have taken out at least the grill covering the modern Heating as well as A/C unit, if not the fan itself.