I was excited when I first bought the house.
Although it was old and has not been inhabited for a few years now, it was properly maintained over the years. The realtor that helped me get it had done his due diligence and was sure that the owner was paying for regular maintenance of everything that mattered including plumbing, heating and cooling, and everything else that mattered. Nothing mattered to me at this point because I was excited about owning a home after renting for so long. Once we signed the papers, I quickly moved into the new house and settled. We organized a welcome party and I had a few friends over for a week. The first few weeks of the month were great until everyone moved on with their lives.It started with strange whistling sounds from the basement. I assumed that the win might have been blowing harder than normal. However, when the sounds started getting louder, especially past 1am in the night, I knew something else was up. Fortunately, I’m not the kind of person that gets scared easily. My cousin insisted that the house was haunted because it was too old. However, I summoned enough courage to check out the basement one of the evenings I came home early. It turns out that the heating and cooling unit of the house was an old boiler. This explains why sometimes there seemed to be cold spots all around the house. The boiler had since stopped being effective and some components were falling off. This is what caused the cranking sounds and it was worse at night since the heating system overworked to compensate for the cold. I had the HVAC tech check it out and he recommended getting a new HVAC unit.