Say What You Will About AI...

But Claude is my hero today. That may be just a bit premature, but I'm fairly confident and very excited about a productive session I had with him (it) this morning. As I've lamented here before, it has been a struggle finding an HVAC contractor to do the install for our house. Now, shame on me, it turns out I don't need an HVAC contractor. Because I am installing a mono-block heat pump. There are no refrigerant connections to be made, no lines running into the house, it's all contained in the heat pump, so no HVAC license is necessary. The only thing that connects to the heat pump is power and water. Now, you might want to go with an HVAC contractor if you wanted someone to perform Manual J calculations to properly size your air-to-water heat pump, but I've paid an engineering firm to do all that already. I just need a plumber! But how does a plumber know what to do? What size circulators, expansion tank, how much glycol? No plumber is going to take on that job! He will when you sit…