The hot summer months can leave you sweaty, sticky, and downright sluggish. Fortunately, an air conditioner will keep your home comfortable and keep you from getting burned out, literally. A properly working AC unit is a luxury we often take for granted; and, if your unit suddenly stops functioning, you’ll want to know how to perform some air conditioner troubleshooting steps … [Read more...] about Air conditioner troubleshooting: how to reset your unit
Air Conditioners & Fans
Preventive maintenance calendar: annual home maintenance
This is the second of two installments of creating an efficient home maintenance schedule. Check out the first post here. As a homeowner, you can prevent a large majority of tomorrow’s problems by maintaining your home today. Regular home maintenance can boost your property value, reduce stress, and reduce the amount of money you spend on minor and major home repairs. If … [Read more...] about Preventive maintenance calendar: annual home maintenance
Preventive maintenance calendar: monthly home maintenance
As a homeowner, you can prevent a majority of tomorrow’s problems by maintaining your home today. Regular home maintenance can boost your property value, reduce stress and reduce the amount of money you spend on minor and major home repairs. Whether this is your first home, or you need to start a new regimen of good home maintenance habits, it’s time to learn what to maintain … [Read more...] about Preventive maintenance calendar: monthly home maintenance
How to stay ahead of rising R-22 costs
Due to the growing environmental concerns worldwide, products that cause damage to the ozone layer are being reduced before being totally phased out. As we discussed before, one such product is R-22, a refrigerant that has been used in air conditioning and heating systems for over four decades. Its release via leaks adds to the depletion of the ozone layer. The Environmental … [Read more...] about How to stay ahead of rising R-22 costs
Reasons behind rising R-22 prices
As per the U.S. EPA website, the Montreal Protocol mandates that R-22 air conditioning refrigerant must be phased out across all developed countries. This slow phasing out of is already causing rising R-22 prices and many homeowners are feeling the pinch. So what are the exact reasons behind rising R-22 prices? Let’s start with why R-22 is facing total phase-out. In an HCFC … [Read more...] about Reasons behind rising R-22 prices
