How to Prevent Home Heat Loss

Let’s say you’re as faithful as can be when it comes to keeping your heating system in sound working order.  You have it inspected by a professional once a year, every few years you have your ducts cleaned, and you have multiple zones and programmable thermostats so your heating system isn’t over-worked throughout the winter. … Read more

How to Prevent Problems with Your Furnace

Picture the last time you bought a new car…the brand-new kind. It’s like an instant love affair, right?  It’s perfect, it’s you all over, you think it’s always going to look and smell new, you’ll be the envy of every passerby and, by golly, you deserve to treat yourself to something special. It’s hard to … Read more

What is a Furnace Heat Exchanger, and What Does It Do?

A heat exchanger is part of your furnace and performs two key functions in keeping you and your home nice and warm, all winter long: It provides heat during furnace operation. It houses the combustion gases that are produced when your furnace burns fuel to keep them out of your family’s living spaces. Essentially, a … Read more

Why Does My Home Have Hot & Cold Spots?

As you’re reading this blog, are you sitting comfortably – all warm and cozy – in your favorite room, while elsewhere in your home you might need an extra sweater, slippers, and hand warmers to help prevent frost bite? Voila, hot and cold spots!  A common condition when you have an older heating system, especially … Read more

How to Prevent Home Heat Loss

Let’s say you’re as faithful as can be when it comes to keeping your heating system in sound working order.  You have it inspected by a professional once a year, every few years you have your ducts cleaned, and you have multiple zones and programmable thermostats so your heating system isn’t over-worked throughout the winter. … Read more