It’s not even the hour month of June and I’m already tied up out. I feel that comes with the territory when you bet on a 23 year ancient heat pump to make it through the summer. Add to that equation the fact that the Heating & A/C specialist told us last fall that every one of us entirely needed to substitute the Heating & A/C unit soon. Well, he said the same thing however with more urgency when he came back to do the air conditioner tune-up this Spring. But every one of us still hadn’t saved the currency that every one of us were hoping to put together so every one of us rolled the dice on the ancient heat pump. Could it hold together for just one more summer? I tried to corner the Heating & A/C professional on this one. But the Heating & A/C specialist was clear that once the Heating & A/C cooling costs skyrocketed, every one of us didn’t have long. Outside of that, he just couldn’t give us much more on a timeline. The skyrocketing cooling costs are due to the fact that heat pump is losing the ability to even meet temperature control demand. The heat pump has to run nearly continuously to just get to the split even point. That’s not good news for the ancient heat pump and it’s a quick downward spiral from there. So every one of us made sure that every one of us programmed the temperature control to stay entirely high during the peak heating hours of the summer time days. And at night, every one of us bring it down a bit to sleep. The fans are helping as well although I still don’t feel so good about this bet that our ancient heat pump will get through the next more than three months of intense heat and humidity.