The cooling season has begun and contractors across the nation are gearing up for what meteorologists predict is going to be a hot summer. Temperature gains will depend widely on the region of the country a contractor does business in, but according to sources like The Weather Channel and The Farmers’ Almanac, there should be plenty of a/c demand to go around.
If you haven’t noticed, there is a revolution going on in our industry. This revolution has to do with that little device that hangs on the wall that used to be called a thermostat. For those old-timers like me, that device was typically round and it did one of three things; it turned on the furnace, turned on the air conditioner, and/or turned on the blower. They were simple to operate, as they say even a child could do it. Then came the programmable thermostat, which allowed the homeowner to set the temperatures in his home based on his lifestyle. As an aside, we have avoided selling programmable thermostats to customers unless they specifically requested them. The reason is that we found that those not familiar with the programmable stat, more often than not, would require an extra service call because the programming was off cycle. But all of that was before the thermostat revolution came to be.