With longer and warmer days replacing the winter doldrums, spring is a great time to tackle certain projects and prep your home and garden for the outdoor season. Here’s a checklist to keep handy, at least until the items on it become second nature. Gutters and Downspouts – Clean your gutters and downspouts early in…
6 Ways to Upgrade Your Home
Do you have any remodeling projects on your personal radar? Maybe, for example, you’re planning to sell your home this year and want to put a brighter and shinier face on it. Or maybe you just need a change and finally have the budget to execute your plans to the fullest. Whatever your motivation might…
How Does A UV Air Purifier Work
No matter how much you love your home, it can still be making you sick. The good news is, you don’t need to just sit back and take it, especially with Optimum Air on hand to assist you with today’s latest indoor air quality solutions. One product we recommend is a UV (ultra violet) air…
Space Heater Safety Tips
Ways to improve your indoor comfort during the long, cold winter months. Well, just in case it’s not already on your list, let’s make it umpteen plus one: using a space heater or two to augment what your central heating system already provides. Sounds simple enough, right? You have room that’s not quite as warm…
Is it Time for a New Furnace?
Is it Time for a New Furnace? If your furnace is 10-15 years old, it’s already reached its average lifespan. If it’s even older and still working fine, consider yourself among the fortunate few. But here’s the thing: no matter how new or old it might be, it won’t last forever. So, is this the…
What to Do When the Power Goes Out.
Whether or not we’re headed for more and more severe weather remains to be seen. All we know for sure is that we’re susceptible to it, and need to take proper precautions to protect family, home, and belongings. At the same time, you don’t need an oncoming hurricane or other force of nature to alter…
4 Tips for Great Indoor Wood Fires
If you feel like you’re not yet master of your own wood fires place, here’s a crash course on how to advance your skill set by creating and sustaining longer-lasting fires with greater heat generation. Wood Stove vs. Fireplace It’s easier to get a fire started in a conventional fireplace, but easier to keep one…
How to Prevent Dry Skin this Winter
As the weather gradually turns cooler and the “Cool” setting gets shifted to “Heat” on your thermostat, those won’t be the only changes you start to notice. Little by little, your indoor air will begin to dry out and, with that, comes an inevitable set of consequences…dry, itchy skin in particular, not to mention bloody…
“Must” Home Maintenance Chores
You know the old expression: “If these walls could talk!” Quaint and wistful, don’t you think? But its core message is that walls really CAN’T talk Not to mention lights, furnaces, AC condensing units, windows, doors and other inanimate objects. Here at Optimum Air, we respectfully disagree. Oh, sure, they can’t actually speak any more…
How Your AC Evaporator Coils Can Freeze, and What Happens When They Do
Time for a little AC 101 – at least until we get to the meat of this blog. Your home air conditioning system consists of three main parts: the outside condensing unit, indoor air handler, and the air ducts that deliver cool, fresh air through your vents or registers. While companies like ours perform countless…