![]() ![]() The mini-split system is a hybrid of sorts. I went in a different direction, installing instead a mini-split system. No, I didn’t decide to hoist a 1,500 pound HVAC unit to the top of the roof. They say “necessity is the mother of invention”, but I will add that it is also the mother of imitation and, turning to youtube, I did a lot of that monkey see/monkey do kind of study. I simply didn’t have that kind of cheese lying around. I had quotes to replace my central HVAC unit up to $11,000. The decision to do this myself was driven mostly by thrift. So the work on my Vespa and Spartan brought me to a place where, at 65 years old, I had enough guile and know-how to install a new HVAC system in my rental house in Pittsburg. But for most of my adult life I worked with my head, not my hands. Oh, my background contains some home improvement and going way back to my childhood, I stripped a lot of wire while working in sibling servitude to my older brother. Prior to that I wasn’t very mechanical, having never so much as changed my car’s oil. As I mentioned many posts ago, I probably would not have had the nerve to take on the trailer restoration without first having worked on my 50+ year old Vespa. Perhaps that’s why they call a college education a degree. It builds one lesson on top of another, slowly adding to one’s expertise and skills. ![]()
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