What do married couples argue about? Most people would say money, sex, and housework without even thinking twice. If the couple has kids, they might say the kids, or how to parent them. For my husband and I, add a fifth issue: air conditioning.
We renovated our bungalow and added a second floor to it five years ago. By the time we got around to replacing the central heating system, there wasn't much money left. We didn't want to tap any further into our home equity loan, so we decided to forgo the central air conditioning, even though we knew it would cost less if we had it done along with all the other work. We knew that second floors get hotter than ground floors, but our ground floor is always so cool (it's raised and always has cool air circulating underneath the hardwood floors), so how bad could it be?
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