Blue Ox Heating & Air

I drive past a nice, middle class home every night in east Bloomington on the way home from work. I saw something this evening that really amused me. There is a Blue Ox Heating & Air van parked in the driveway every evening, so it is safe to assume that the husband is an HVAC technician, and highly skilled at that.

The occurrence that caught my eye was that the living roomed window was cracked open about 6 inches on this 25 degree evening. If the husband is a HVAC expert, why in Hades do they have the window open to cool the house or provide fresh air?

Maybe his wife is going through the change of life, and likes it cool by where she sits, while he has a wall unit that is at 75 degrees in his den. Or they cooked roast in the oven, and it burned a little, so they were cracking the window open to allow fresh air in.

Or they periodically get tired of stale-smelling winter air, and just want some fresh air to make the house smell clean and pure. Or she or he smokes in the house, and the partner wants that odor abated.

Or he is so tired of fixing other people's heating problems, that he has a broken digital thermostat that overheats the house, and he has not gotten around to fixing it, so this is the only way that she can make the house not be a sauna.

Regardless, I will watch tomorrow to see if that window is cracked open again. With all his expertise, there should be no legitimate long term reason to freeze out the house, run up the heating bill just to achieve some outdoor cooling or get some fresh air piped into the house.