If you are having problems with your furnace, don’t count on that repair bill just yet: You may be able to skip the call to your service technician by trying a few furnace troubleshooting tips on your own.
Heat pumps offer efficient heating and cooling for homes in the South Bend area. The average life span of a heat-pump system varies a bit, depending on whom you ask. But you can usually expect your residential heat pump to last around 15 years or more — if it’s well maintained.
With summer fast approaching, it’s time to get ready for outdoor activities — and for keeping cool indoors. If your home is more than 10 years old, you might be wondering if your air conditioning system will make it through another season. But should you replace it now or hold out? Air conditioners, like any other mechanical systems, last only …
While many people think that energy bills are just something to put up with, there are a number of things your can do to create energy savings. Energy Star recently offered a few tips we thought were worth passing along:
Everyone wants to save a buck. Well, here’s a quick and easy way to make sure that you aren’t wasting any money on heating and cooling your home… are you ready? Here it is: change your HVAC air filter.
Ever hear the old one about “out of sight, out of mind?” Most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the inner workings of their A/C systems. That’s fine, until the A/C stops working. The aggravation of living without A/C can be avoided by scheduling an annual preventative maintenance checkup of your air conditioning system, before you need to …
Air filter replacement is an essential maintenance task for your health and home. Modern efficient home designs, with tighter construction, are resistant to fresh air flow which causes viruses and bacteria to live and prosper in your central air systems. Polluted indoor air quality became a recognized problem in the late 1980’s and since then, the Environmental Protection Agency has …
