How to Lose $1,000 by Ignoring a $20 Fix

It always starts the same way.

You hear a noise.
Not a scary noise.
Just a weird one.

You tilt your head. You listen again. You decide it’s probs fine. 'Cause your house is still cold and you’re a busy lil bee with a million and one other things on your mind.

So you move on with your life.

Then the filter that costs like twenty bucks clogs itself with dust, dog hair, and whatever else has been floating around since forever. Airflow slows. Your system works harder. Your electric bill creeps up and up and up, but you assume all is fine. But we know you know what happens when you assume.

Next comes the room that never cools down. You tell guests it is “the warm room.” Like that was a design choice or something. LOL.

A few weeks later, your AC starts doing that thing where it runs forever but somehow accomplishes nada. You lower the thermostat. It doesn’t help. So you lower it again.

Eventually it stops working altogether. Usually on the hottest or coldest day of the year.

Now you’re on the phone, moaning about how it was working fine until today and wondering if there’s anything we can do.

Good news is, there is. Not-so-good news is it’ll no longer cost $20.

This is how homeowners accidentally spend thousands of dollars. Not because they’re Careless Karens. Not because they’re Slacker Sams. But because the problem didn’t feel urgent when it was small. Welcome to Procrastination Station, population: you.

A dirty filter. A weird noise. A tune-up you meant to schedule, but didn’t.

All very affordable. All very fixable. All very easy-peasy-squeezy to ignore.

Until they’re not.

The moral of this hilariously doomed story is not to panic over every sound your AC makes. It’s that itty-bitty problems don’t stay that way if you ignore them.

Schedule a check-up with Heritage Air before the small stuff becomes super duper expensive.

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