Pretty much anybody who has experience with HVAC maintenance will tell you that it is all about taking those important preventative measures. That is, even the most basic maintenance jobs — which are usually very affordable and easy — can have a lasting impact on your system in a number of ways. Most importantly, it can prevent serious damage to the expensive appliances that can be very hard to repair. Obviously, you never want to get to the point where you have to completely replace an expensive appliance because you neglected to maintain it.…
Your furnace is a key element to keeping comfortable in the winter, so it can be a real problem if it suddenly stops working. Luckily, you can identify most furnace problems yourself. Here are four of the most common furnace problems and how you can fix them:
1. Furnace isn’t effectively heating the house.
If your house is still cold even when you have the furnace turned all the way up, it may be a sign that you’re using the wrong furnace.…
The air conditioning that you use to keep your home cool during the summer months is often forgotten about during the cold winter months. If you have forgotten to do maintenance or winterization before you turned it off in fall, there may be some repairs, maintenance and damage that winter weather has caused and needs to be repaired. Here are some tips to help with the inspection and repairs that your AC is going to need before the summer heatwaves return.…
Imagine you have $500 that want to spend it on your HVAC system and you want to spend this money with goal of reducing your utility bills. Here are some simple upgrade you can make within this modest budget. After a couple years, it is very likely that you will earn most of this $500 back through your reduced utility bills.
$100 on Air Filters
The very first thing you should do it buy about $100 worth of air filters.…
Summer may be just about over, but it will be back again next year. When it does, you’ll want to be ready to make your home more energy efficient and reduce the wear and tear on your air conditioner. In addition to starting next summer with a tune-up for your air conditioner, here are three steps you can take to keep your home cooler.
Give Your Air Conditioner a Break…
Trying to maintain a comfortable temperature in your commercial building during the summer can be expensive. The fact that the door is opened and closed more frequently than that of a home, the vast difference in space, and the increased amount of people creating body heat all mean that the AC unit needs to work hard to keep things cool. It will be up to you to make sure that the system maintains high efficiency to keep the electric bills reasonable.…
If your furnace is on its last legs and you’ve known about it for a while, it’s time to plan for a replacement. Your faulty furnace isn’t going to last forever, which means at some point it’s going to malfunction permanently. You might have been thinking that it’s best to get as much use out of your furnace as possible before replacing it. While that might be a good idea for some things, like maybe your kitchen toaster, it’s definitely not the right move when it comes to your furnace.…
The summer heat in some places is not a joke. It is often assumed that if people once lived without air conditioning, they should be able to do it now if the air goes down. Unfortunately, the modern home that normally has air conditioning is not always set up to handle the excessive temperatures during an air conditioner outage. Your house may be filled with valuable collectibles that are vulnerable to the heat, for example, or you may have pets, plants, small children, or even health concerns that are a big issue if there is no air.…
Homeowners in every region in climate would love to have reduced utility bills. That is, even if you are only running your heat a few nights out of the year, you could probably benefit from investing in some HVAC maintenance. In fact, homes that don’t use their heat or AC very often are more vulnerable to certain problems. For instance, dust and mold buildup can definitely be more pronounced. If you don’t even have central AC hooked up to your duct system, and only use your heater for a couple months during the dead of winter, this means that there are at least 9 months out of the year that your system is laying dormant.…
If you are like most homeowners in America, you have an air conditioning system that keeps your house cool. There are many people who don’t understand how the system works, and then as the system begins to have problems they don’t recognize the warning signs until the system is completely out of commission. Luckily, there are warning signs that you should be looking for that can tell you that you need to service the system.…
