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A proper heat load calculation is the key to customizing your Heating & Cooling Solution There is absolutely no other way to ensure your family’s comfort, heatlh, and safety. According to Energy Star, a Good Contractor WILL NOT: Size your equipment soley on square footage Assume your existing equipment was sized properly It IS the contractor’s job to [...]

Here are 6 quick tidbits about the services you should expect from a HVAC contractor when they are changing out a Heating and Air Conditioning system in your home. 1. Professional Design = Quality Installation The contractor should never size a new system based on the old system. The old system could have sized improperly [...]

Seventy percent of U.S. households are affected by allergies or asthma. Improving your indoor air quality is an important step in reducing allergic and asthmatic triggers. Reasons why you should reduce in-home allergens: • Reduce your allergy symptoms and feel much better. • Manage your allergy symptoms without medicine or with fewer medicines. • Reduce [...]

“Definition 1: (noun) A person who can see into the future; prophet.” Eh. I don’t think so. Let’s look for the acronym. “SEER: Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio.” That seems more logical! Definition of Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio: “The total heat removed from the conditioned space during the annual cooling season, expressed in Btu’s, divided by [...]

Many a homeowner wants to do a remodeling job on their homes: Put in a new carpet. Get a bay window for the master bedroom. Spruce up the bathrooms. Fix up the kitchen with new cabinets and equipment. There’s also the additions and conversions. Garage conversion. Turn the attic into a bedroom. Change a now-empty [...]

One of the things us homeowners tend to forget is the air filters for our HVAC systems.  Tell me honestly, have you changed your filter in the last month? If you have, you are very much aware of the benefits of doing so!   For instance: Keeps the air handler or furnace purring along. Keeps [...]

Many are the HVAC contractors who go by ‘rule of thumb’ in designing systems for their clients. “Rule of thumb” is defined by The American Heritage Dictionary as “a useful principle having wide application but not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable in every situation.” This is a rule which can help come up [...]

BACKGROUND. In 1987, the Montreal Protocol, an international environmental agreement, established requirements that began the worldwide phase-out of ozone-depleting CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons.) This Protocol is carried out in the United States as part of the Clean Air Act, which is implemented by the EPA. A TALE OF TWO REFRIGERANTS. A chemical compound known as R-22 has [...]