Last winter my family and I decided to try to save energy by buying a bunch of space heaters to heat our home.
This was a big change from us usually running our central heating system all winter long.
The space heaters actually did save us a whole ton on our electric bills. However, we had one pretty big issue with one of the space heaters. It started giving off this really murky kind of smell. Space heaters are not gas, so we knew we were not in any danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. But the smell was pretty bad, and we had to turn off the space heater in the one bedroom we were getting this from. I called my friend, who happens to be an expert in the HVAC field. He told me to bring the portable space heater over to him to have a look at the thing. I went over there with the portable space heater, my friend found out the space heater had overworked itself. This was quite unusual, but it happened! The answer to repair the space heater was to replace one of the heating grids inside of it. Normally, this would not be worth doing. It would be a lot cheaper to just go out and buy a brand new space heater. However, my friend had the part and was willing to do it as a favor. After my friend replaced the heating grid, I took the space heater home and plugged it back in. It was working like the other 7 we had throughout the house. I really owed a lot to my friend.