Quick, and no peeking: when did you purchase your furnace? Of, if you inherited it from the previous owners, when did they purchase it? No, this is not a trivia quiz. It’s a serious question to help you determine if its’ time to replace your furnace…or least consider the possibility. Since we’ve already brought up … Read more
Here’s the short answer: “Don’t even try unless you’re an HVAC professional in your own right.” You see, today there are numerous makes and models of home new furnace with similar options and comparable quality. Nine times out of ten, you can’t go wrong. Where you can go wrong is hiring the wrong heating and … Read more
Keeping your home heating system is a team effort – us and you working together for the good of your home and family. Home heating care begins with annual preventive maintenance, a specialty of the house here at Optimum Air. It’s a once-a-year opportunity to ensure your furnace is operating as efficiently and safely as … Read more
Between food, pets, and stinky shoes, your home might smell less like a daisy and more like…well, it might be better to use your imagination on that one. The good news is you can do much more than choose between odor tolerance or dousing the space with chemical-packed sprays. Here are 9 items you probably … Read more
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 to do when you want a little extra heat while you sleep or watch TV, but don’t want to turn up the thermostat? Or, how about when you feel like using your 3-season room in the 4th season but there’s no central heat? Simple: you use a space heater. When used properly, they can … Read more
There’s much you can do to help control your energy costs while keeping your home comfort systems in prime working order. Annual preventive maintenance is high on that list, as is regular filter cleaning, beefing up your insulation, and more. Well, “and more” includes replacing your thermostat, but not with just any ol’ model. Here … Read more
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
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 … Read more
Just like with most things in life, there’s the right and plenty of wrong ways to do everything. Here at Optimum, we trained and worked in the field for many long years to perfect the art of a furnace tune-up and inspection – not to pat ourselves on the back for a job well done, … Read more
