Heating And Cooling Blog
Your Ailing Furnace: How To Decide Between Repair And Replacement
Appliances and fixture in your home breaking down from time to time is a part of life for a homeowner. Sometimes however, when your furnace is ailing, you have to make a tough decision about whether to opt for furnace repair or replacement.
Extend Furnace Life with These Tips
Replacing a furnace isn’t a task that’s easy, cheap or especially enjoyable. This means that for most homeowners, it is worthwhile to extend furnace life as much as practically possible.
Calculate Savings with Energy Star-Qualified Products and Pocket Cash
Every homeowner wants to save money, right? Understanding simple ways to do it, such as investing in Energy Star qualified products, is the first step to making your house more energy efficient. The Energy Star line of products adheres to strict guidelines to promote maximum efficiency and energy savings.
5 Energy-Saving Tips That Could Cut Your Heating Bill This Winter
One of the best ways to save on monthly expenses is by reducing the energy usage in your Dayton area home. Use these energy-saving tips and keep your hard-earned money in your pocket. The bonus is that all of these tips will reap energy-saving benefits in the summer, as well.
Make Sure You Routinely Change That Filter in Your Furnace
Your furnace requires filters to operate appropriately. Because the filter in your furnace is designed to catch debris and other materials that can clog and harm your furnace, it is important to replace it regularly.
Understand How Your Heat Pump’s Thermostat Works for Best Results
An air-source heat pump offers one of the cleanest, safest and efficient ways to heat your home, but understanding how the heat pump’s thermostat works can help you cut your wintertime heating bills even more. A heat pump harvests heat energy from the outside air and transfers it inside, so its operation is greatly affected […]
WiFi Thermostat: Here’s What You Can Do With Them
WiFi-operated HVAC thermostats are relatively new innovations. It may seem obvious that they can connect homeowners to their heating and cooling equipment from remote locations, but they offer many other advantages. Our weather here in the Dayton/Springfield area is typical of the Midwest, with severe, swift, unforeseen changes not uncommon. Thus, one benefit that could be […]
Why Your Heat Pump Has a Defrost Cycle
Homeowners accustomed to gas or oil furnaces, which generate their own heat though combustion, may find confusing the idea of a heating system that needs to be defrosted while it heats the home. But the heat pump defrost cycle is actually closely related to a heat pump’s operation, and is the same mechanism that gives […]
Forced Air Heating: A Reliable and Popular Way to Heat Your Home
Forced air heating or furnace refers to a system that heats a home by drawing air through ductwork, forcing it through a filter and furnace (or boiler or heat pump air handler), and then recirculating the air back into the home’s rooms through different ducts. While the terms forced air and central air are often used […]