Growing up, my father was in the Army so my friend and I moved around a lot… It seemed like my friend and I never stayed in one place for more than a year; Every base was weird and so were the houses my friend and I lived in; Most of the time my friend and I just lived in base housing. It was easier that way. Some bases had nice houses, then other houses were infested with mold and bugs and falling apart, however another thing that I found interesting were the Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C systems in all of the weird houses. Every single one of them had central heating and cooling. However, how well this heating and cooling was a total crap shoot. Some houses had new Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C systems that were well took care of and worked well, however those were a rarity though. In most cases the Heating, Ventilation as well as A/C systems were ancient, there was a lot of dust in the ductwork, and they broke down from time to time. I remember this one household where the boiler didn’t work. It only was lukewarm no matter how high you set the temperature control. In another household the air conditioner broke down 6 times in just under 2 years. Each time it broke down my friend and I had to wait over a week before it was fixed. And then there were the temperature controls. My enjoyable friend and I had dial temperature control or analog temperature controls and no one was like the other. 69 degrees in one household was a much weird temperature than 69 degrees in another house. I don’t know if that is because the temperature controls weren’t calibrated or if it had to do with the design of the house.
