I recently went to a Halloween party.
It was at my best friend’s house. Her house is new and I went over a few hours earlier to help her set up. We put up black and orange streamers all around the house and we hung up decorative lights. My friend continued to clean and prep her home while I finished up the last touches of the decorations. We were finished just in time before the doorbell rang. Her first guest arrived, then shortly afterwards there were ten, twenty and even thirty people, all stuffed into her home. Everyone’s reactions were priceless as they walked in. Their jaws dropped at the magnificent decorations. As the party went on for a few hours, the house began to feel really warm and stuffy. My friend went to turn her air conditioning unit on through her new programmable thermostat. After a half hour later we both realized that the house wasn’t getting cool at all. She was starting to sweat herself, and she could see that her guests were complaining that they were warm. So I told my friend to keep entertaining her guests while I would go and call her HVAC provider. They came to the house about thirty minutes later to inspect the HVAC system. They said everything looked fine, until they went upstairs to check the registers. It turned out that when my friend was cleaning, she closed the vents to clean the dust off of the vent slits. It was a silly mistake that kept the house from being cool.