I started taking classes on the side to learn more about central air conditioning and furnaces
There are so many ways to build a furnace. The first furnace I built as a young boy was made from a hydronic heating system and electric furnace combined. It didn’t run very well, but it did work, and as a novice HVAC technician it was pretty well built. When I was a teenager, I built my own portable space heater out of scrap metal. Many of my friends who were interested in sports and girls and such, made fun of my interest in heating and cooling units. I wanted to be just like my grandpa who was a cooling expert for many years, and then moved on to learn about furnaces and heating systems, and then a few years after that he became an expert in air purifiers. I wanted to never stop learning about HVAC and I wanted to start young. At every science fair in our school I would bring in a mini air conditioner, smart thermostat, or oil furnace as my project and I would often get first place for my work. I carried this motivation into my adult life, and took a job cleaning air ducts. I enjoyed cleaning air ducts, but I just wanted more. I wanted to get my hands into a central air conditioner or hydronic heating system and get to fix it myself. I didn’t want to settle just being an air duct cleaner. I started taking classes on the side to learn more about central air conditioning and furnaces. I then entered the HVAC field and began fixing HVAC units at a heating and cooling company.