I spent two hours cleaning out my garage yesterday. Most of the time was spent on devising a better organization system for my tools and storage boxes. Good organization results in freed space that can be used for any number of things. My wife wants a place to keep her spare art supplies because her studio is already cramped as it is. She paints and sculpts clay pottery, and between the different glazes and the spare clay, she can use every bit of additional space that she can get. When I had finished clearing out a large section of the garage for her pottery supplies and tools, I decided I’d sweep and mop all of the exposed floor in the garage. This is when I noticed something about the central heating and cooling system. Like many others in my area, my air handler for my central HVAC system hangs from the ceiling in my hot garage. It isn’t advised to put an air handler exposed in an uninsulated attic, let alone in a garage space. Right now it gets so hot in here that condensation beads up on the outside metal surfaces of the air handler when it cycles during the afternoon hours. I called my heating and cooling supplier and their solution was to add a drip guard underneath. It looks like a massive cookie sheet with three-inch high walls that hangs below the air handler to catch any condensation forming on the outside of the machine. Once enough of the water gathers in the drip guard, it flows into the condensate line for the HVAC system where it’s deposited outdoors.