I’d much rather be over prepared than caught with my pants down when severe winter weather hits.
This is the thought that goes around my head as I try to motivate to keep preparing for winter even when it’s not winter.
But that’s just sort of the deal around here. Our winters are long, cold and full of snow. That means it’s too late to deal with heating issues once the bottom falls out of the thermometer. So, I work through the summer and fall in order to be ready when the winter weather settles in for five or six months. We have a great gas furnace that efficiently heats our home and has been very reliable for us. Of course, I make sure to have the HVAC professionals come out to do the heating maintenance prior to even a hint of winter. If for some reason there was something amiss with the gas furnace, I would want time to deal with that and not have to rush and sort of HVAC repair. The gas furnace does a great job for us. But we also have a supplemental heating source which also serves as a backup to the gas furnace. And it’s the old school, natural source of heating. We have a wood stove that helps to heat our home and is there in case of a power outage as well. I even have a hard plastic shell that goes over the HVAC cabinet for the air conditioning. This keeps falling ice and the weight of snow off the delicate parts and fan of the HVAC cabinet.