I would think they just stopped making the pot long enough to add some color to the remaining tufa and then just continued on.

The reasoning doesn't make sense. The 3 ton condenser will provide about 35,000 BTU of cooling depending on which size coil is used. This would give you at least an 18% margin on the hottest days of the year. It seems the dealer does not trust is load calculation. The duct work reason makes even less sense. Increasing the condenser means the duct work would also need to increase in size. Is he claiming your duct work is too big to handle a 3 ton unit? If you got the 4 ton unit the condenser will operate in the low stage most of the time. You are paying for a 2-stage unit but will use it as a single stage AC. You are also paying for a bigger furnace that will also operate in the low stage most of the time. You could probably save yourself about $1000 by getting the proper sizes. What are your gas and electric rates? Unless you have below average electric rates you will find the furnace cheaper to operate for most temperatures. If you go with the Carrier I recommend getting the Infinity controller.

I find this very intesting and half confusing. I'm sure Merillat isn't top of the line cabinet brand but.. They say the sealers/topcoats have UV inhibitors in them. It also then states.. "Natural sunlight contains Ultra Violet (UV) light rays that may affect the appearance of your cabinets. Merillat has tested our wood species and finishes so that you may be able to determine the approximate effect that UV rays may have on the cabinetry in your home. The tests we use follow the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) standards for quartz ultra violet light (QUV). The actual results in your home will vary depending on these three factors: 1.Exposure to light (for example, direct from the south, east or west, or indirect from the north) 2.The portion of the cabinet that receives the light (top, base, etc.) 3.The wood itself. The finish does not change color, the wood itself will. UV inhibitors have been applied to all Merillat cabinetry. With varying exposure to UV rays, and over time, color variations will occur" What's up with #3? I thought the point of the UV inhibitors was so that it's protected and won't?

I appreciate everyone's advice! @hc mcdole Thank you for trying to comfort me. (Your plants are stunning!) The first several yellow leaves on my Philodendron didn't alarm me too much. The photo of my Philodendron looks decent but it lost a lot of leaves in about 2 months and that is when I wanted to find what was wrong. I lost a lot more than I posted pictures of but they all looked the same, either yellow leaves with brown spots, baby leaves half opened that turned brown on the unfurled part, and baby leaf buds that completely died a rusty color when they didn't even open. About 8 baby leaves died unopened that way. I've been reading a lot and looking on YouTube. I think it may have been a few possibilities. I lost another baby leaf bud today but also one is looking like it's opening as it should, so hopefully it's on the mend. I think it likes to get really dessert dry before watering, I may have watered it too soon. Or maybe it was still just adjusting from the nursery to my home. Getting bugs and fungus 3 weeks after having it made everything worse. The store did have gnats flying around but I wanted to get a plant so badly at the pretty store. It looked bushy and healthy. Now it's a little flatter and longer than it was. I love your story about your Peace Lilies! I've heard that they can take a lot. Because of my undying mold issues on the soil I've repotted my peace lily for the 3rd time in less than a month! It's either get rid of the mold or I have to get rid of the plant. I cleaned all the roots the second time and would you believe that root rot can start in just a couple weeks. It was most likely too much peat as gardengal48 said. It was too wet and probably still had mold spores from the other bad bag of soil I used the first time. When I pulled out the plant it already had several fully mushy roots in just a couple weeks. It smelled like the mold that keeps showing on the soil. I cleaned the roots and pruned off the brown ones. Sprayed some diluted neem oil on the whole plant. Then since a large part died from when I neglected it years ago in the hospital I went down 2 inches in pot size. I went to the Terrain garden center and the woman there said she really liked the Coast of Maine plant medium. I'm a little intimidated to do my own mix again right now so I went with that. It does have some nice stringy bark. (Thank you, @gardengal48) The peace lily looks pretty good so far in it's new smaller pot. It was a tight fit which I think it will do better in for now. When I bought it 4 years ago I was traveling for work so I bought a self watering pot which I heard you can do for peace lilies. It seemed ok in it, it would flower each summer but the spathes were small. This time I put it in a terra cotta. I have to say though the Coast of Maine bag had a moldy smell when I cut it open in my opinion but I didn't see any mold. I have some photos but my phone is taking a long time to upload them. We'll see what happens next. Thank you all again!