I had an HVAC guy check out my heat pump this morning, due to an always-cold bedroom and a stupidly high electric bill (thanks deregulators!!). The good news: my heat pump is working fine. The bad news: my heat pump is working fine. <sigh> In order to resolve my problems I would need to do one or more of the following: a) install a second register in my bedroom, b) investigate the insulation in my bedroom walls and, if possible, force the HOA to up the insulation due to poor construction, c) get a new back door (which means getting the new one approved by the HOA), rip open the old one and figure out why it is freezing cold on the interior side, and, if possible, force the HOA to replace the door due to cheap construction, d) suck it up, get that 3M film stuff for my bedroom window, maybe blast the exterior of the building with that yellow foamy stuff in a can, save up for the 3 high heating bills every year and use my space heater. I'm most likely going with option D, because I don't like HOAs and I don't want to try to find the mechanical plan and all the rigamarole involved with option A.
More bad news: a couple of years ago I lent my steel design manual to the estimating dept. at work and now it's gone. I have a sneaking suspicion as to who has sticky fingers, but I would hate to have to show up on his doorstep and demand it back since he told me on the phone (and the response was a little too quick for my tastes) that he didn't have it, never saw it, never used it, never knew it existed. Office investigation #3 occurs this evening. If that doesn't work, I'm calling my old prof to see if he remembers how much I paid for it, and then check on the limitations on small claims court. Okay, maybe not, but it makes me feel better to think about it.
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