In a climate like ours, getting central air conditioner sizing right is crucial for comfort and reasonable cooling bills. When a unit is too large or small, it won’t perform as well. Comfort diminishes, energy costs increase and the system won’t last as long.
Proper installation of a furnace filter means making certain it’s facing the right direction. The filter cleans airflow returning to the furnace from rooms throughout your entire house. In a typical residential HVAC system, well over 1,000 cubic feet per minute of air passes through that filter while the system is running. For proper filtration function, the filter must be oriented so the correct side faces toward the furnace unit, with the arrows pointing in the direction of return airflow.
Today’s furnaces have come a long way from the furnaces of yesteryear, providing remarkable improvements in overall comfort and energy efficiency. If you’re in the market for a new furnace, a condensing furnace offers one of the most efficient home comfort solutions you can buy.
When your air conditioner is running, warm air coming from your HVAC vents is a cause for concern. There are various reasons why this might happen: it may be a mix-up in your HVAC settings, a maintenance issue, or a serious problem within the cooling system. Here are some of the most common causes and what to do to restore the flow of comfortably-cool air.
These days we’re all looking up stuff constantly on the Internet to check it out before we go there, buy something or schedule a service. Online reviews are often helpful in making up our minds, but they can also be deceiving. Here’s why you should, by all means, have a look at them, but also realize how they may be skewed too far to the negative or positive.
When the weather gets cooler and you start switching from air conditioning to heat, it’s important to make sure your HVAC system runs properly. You might not realize that you’ve developed a few bad HVAC habits that are keeping your system from being able to run efficiently. Keep the following in mind, so that you can avoid doing them this fall.
Halloween is coming up! Time to get some pumpkins and carve Jack O’Lanterns! They’ll make your front porch look creepily festive – for about a week. Then they’ll start rotting, and you’ll be left with a soft, mushy, sorry mess. How can you get your pumpkins to last longer? Here are a few tips for Jack O’Lantern preservation.
Getting friends and family together to watch football is always such an awesome experience, but it’s also one that comes with a big responsibility for homeowners as it relates to their comfort level. Let’s take a look at some party comfort concerns and what you can do to make everyone happy.
A space heater is one option for heating a room in this mild climate in lieu of the furnace, but there are serious safety concerns associated with these heaters. Statistically, they’re the number one cause of injuries from house fires. They’re also responsible for carbon monoxide (CO) exposure and skin burns.
When was the last time you checked your programmable thermostat? If it’s been a while, right now’s a good time to perform some well-needed thermostat maintenance. Part of that maintenance includes checking the batteries and changing them as needed.
David Mathews is the owner of CCAC Air Conditioning and Heating. A Corpus Christi native... More »
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