Where I live, the heat is on. And I don’t mean that 2020 is kicking our butts, because that is true too. No, I mean our region is right in the midst of our toughest stretch of weather. The heat and humidity here are nothing to sneeze at. In fact, it’s a four month stretch that takes every bit of my ability to deal with. Without HVAC and the cooling comfort it provides, I’d be done for. Thankfully for us, we have modern HVAC and the mighty heat pump. Most of us take it for granted but, it really is an amazing machine. I can’t imaging how my grandparents got through the summer with an evaporative swamp cooler alone. All I remember is that all the adults would sit pretty still under a fan during the heat of the day. There wasn’t a lot of movement. But, my grandma was always fighting back the mold and mildew. Her house always had that clean bleach smell to it. While I love a clean house, I don’t have to beat back the mold and mildew thanks to modern HVAC. Just by the act of cooling the house, the HVAC is automatically balancing the humidity. When the HVAC kicks on, it starts the cooling process by removing warmer air from the inside and depositing it outside. That process also ends up removing an amount of moisture from the inside of the house as well. So by simply having the HVAC on to cool my house, I am also benefiting from have the moisture level reduced. No mold & mildew for us.