Keeping Your HVAC System In Great Condition

• Filters, Furnaces, And Fun: Oh, My!

  13 January 2019

  Ah, yes, appliance maintenance! It is always a tedious  thing when you own your own home and you want to make sure everything keeps running. However, no one ever said you had to do the maintenance yourself. It might be a little more expensive to have a contractor/technician come out to do the maintenance for you, but sometimes it is so worth the extra cost. For example, if you know that your air conditioner currently needs AC maintenance, you only have to make and pay for one service call when you have all of the following checked and maintained at the same time.

• 5 Tips to Maintain Your Furnace {Including the 1 That Most Homeowners Most Often Neglect}

  5 December 2018

  Maintaining a home's mechanical systems seems, at first glance, like a daunting task. It's actually quite easy to do. While you need to hire an experienced HVAC specialist when problems arise, routine maintenance tasks, like the ones below, can be completed by the average homeowner.  1. Read the Manual: While not specifically a maintenance task, reading the manual will give you a basic understanding of how your system operates. This is especially important if you are not familiar with HVAC systems or your specific furnace.

• Register Layout And Design For Beginners

  25 October 2018

  When designing a new home, you have to think about the ducting and registers. Specifically, you have to consider how they can affect not just the airflow throughout your home but also the look of your interior. That is, you want your registers to be relatively hidden so that they don't distract or take away from the style of your walls. There are really quite a lot of things to consider when it comes to your ducting and air registers.

• 4 Improvements And HVAC Heating Repairs For Better Furnace Efficiency

  24 September 2018

  Old and outdated heating systems can be inefficient, which is why you are considering improvements. You may want to consider updating insulation and improving ducts when doing repairs to ductwork or adding renewable energy when you need a furnace replacement. Sometimes the HVAC system needs furnace repairs before winter, and this is when you will want to consider some of these repairs and improvements for better furnace efficiency: 1. Repairing Ductwork and Improving Insulation of Old Commercial Buildings

• Controlling Humidity And Temperature In Your Home: What You Need To Know

  22 August 2018

  It is not the heat; it is the humidity. How many times have you heard people say that? Well, it is partially true. When the heat is a dry heat, people are able to adapt by sweating. As the sweat evaporates, the body is cooled. However, when it is too humid, the sweat cannot evaporate because the air is already too heavy with moisture. Then the body cannot cool itself properly, and people end up with heat exhaustion and heat stroke.