u/snaphappybre

Second home purchase. Big upgrade for us but has been a LOT to do. Did anyone feel like you should’ve been happier the day you got your keys and feeling lighter and excited the first few weeks at your new home? We’re only about a week and a couple days in and have gotten quite a bit done, but between finding a place for everything, noticing more things to change or upgrade, figuring out all new bills and changing addresses and needing to get my other house ready to rent, I feel more of a perpetual cloud of stress and exhaustion than I do relief. It’s only been a week and a couple days and I know logically we’ve chipped off more and more as we go, but I guess I feel a little bit of almost a letdown on the excitement front. But I know we’re also incredibly fortunate and are going to do so many awesome things here. I guess two feelings can exist at once!

We just got a new heat pump system done, originally the house had an electric furnace for the 3 bedrooms + a heat pump for the upstairs and downstairs main area minisplits. As far as I was aware they did all the tests to verify our electrical could handle what they were doing. Night 1 with the system it wouldn’t heat, didn’t blow a breaker but it wouldn’t turn on due to whatever they put on it to stop operating before it would overload. Had the company come back out and they did tests that determined it might be power grid limitations and to call the energy company. So we did, and they came out and said all they can do is verify they’re supplying the power we’re required to get which they are, check the feeding wire size (it’s smaller but they said that isn’t necessarily bad, but can be changed.), and possibly have an engineer come update the transformer. Apparently, 9 times out of 10 they don’t get called before installs then they get these kind of calls to troubleshoot after the fact. I’m trying not to worry or be frustrated that the hvac company wouldn’t suggest doing this legwork prior to install, because what if we needed to do a different type of heat pump to be able to run it in the cooler months or hotter months? Now, only time will tell how the systems going to work and it’s was really expensive. Anyone dealt with this?