While everyone wants to stay cool during the warmer months of the year, having cold spots around your home isn’t ideal. If you’ve been having this problem, here are a few things that will make fixing cold spots easy:
How to Check Your HVAC Airflow and What It Means
HVAC airflow is among the most critical factors when it comes to home comfort and efficiency. When airflow’s not up to specs, cooling and heating performance declines, energy consumption rises and system components incur more wear and tear.
How Airflow Works in Your Home
It’s unfortunate that not many homeowners understand the significant effect that good airflow alone can have on home comfort. Airflow is critical to the performance and efficiency of your HVAC system. Read on to get a better understanding of how air typically moves through your home.
3 Winter HVAC Concerns and How to Avoid Them
Winter HVAC concerns need to be addressed as soon as they come up. Since prevention is always the first and best approach, an annual furnace tune-up and inspection should be scheduled with a qualified HVAC contractor for a complete system check-up as well as a list of manufacturer-recommended preventive maintenance procedures. By catching small problems […]
Problems With Frozen Evaporator Coils? Use These Troubleshooting Tips
If the inside unit of your split-system air conditioner freezes up, it’s no time to panic. You might be able to troubleshoot the issue yourself before calling in a service professional. However, you’ll want to act fast either way since frozen evaporator coils can damage your central air conditioner.
Heat Pump Maintenance Tasks to Complete This Spring
With spring here and the transition from heating season to cooling season, heat pump maintenance should not be neglected. If your heat pump is not properly maintained, it will waste energy and under-perform. This requires a mixture of homeowner maintenance steps and professional heat pump maintenance. Here’s what you can do.
Your Forced-Air System’s A Workhorse — Do You Know How It Does The Job?
A forced-air system is a real workhorse that faithfully plows along season after season to meet the changing heating and cooling needs of its homeowner. Savvy Dayton area homeowners understand that it pays to take good care of their systems with regular checkups from an HVAC professional, and intermittent spot-checks of the air filter and […]
Airflow And Refrigerant Charge: 2 Factors That Maintenance Should Take Care Of
The best time of the year for annual air conditioner maintenance is spring or early summer. But, if you skipped your tuneup this year, don’t worry; it’s not too late. You can still slash your cooling bills with correctly performed maintenance. Two tasks that should be checked every year are precision checks on airflow and […]
How A Zoning System Evens Your Heating Upstairs, Downstairs And All Around The House
A common problem faced by many homeowners is the inability to maintain an even temperature throughout the entire house. The upstairs is often warmer than the downstairs, and there are certain rooms that just never seem to get comfortable. Zoning systems give you enhanced control over the temperature in different parts of your house so […]
Filtration Systems Clean Up Indoor Air
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air is often significantly more polluted than outdoor air. In fact, the levels of pollution are often so high that the EPA has listed indoor air pollution among the top five biggest environmental risks to public health. With that in mind, residents of the Dayton area […]
