If you read the post headline and thought, “Of course I don’t pay to heat and cool my attic! Hardly anybody goes up there during the year, so why would I have it heated or air conditioned?” It’s true that, unless you’ve converted the attic into a living space of some kind, there’s no reason …
Read MoreCentral heating and air is one of the best of all modern home conveniences. And it’s also one that we often take for granted, so much so that we infrequently notice one of the basic drawbacks of the standard central AC and heater: a homeowner doesn’t have much control over where the heated and cooled …
Read MoreYou might see the word heating in the title of this post and feel a laugh coming on. The temperatures outside are still hitting 100°F during the middle of the day! You’ve already got enough heat on your mind, and using your home air conditioning system as efficiently as possible so you can make it through this …
Read MoreSafety during the winter holiday season in Southern California presents a number of different challenges than it does in many other parts of the country. After all, “winter” is a relative term in the Inland Empire and the Desert Communities. We’ll experience some cooler days and perhaps cold nights, as well as some rain, and …
Read MoreHere’s a situation you don’t want to run into during one of our colder days: you turn on the heat to get the furnace warming up your home, and the furnace turns on for a moment… only to shut down because a circuit breaker has tripped. You reset the breaker, try the furnace again… and …
Read MoreSo you are in the market for a new air conditioning system for your home. What type of system should you choose? This is a difficult question to answer, and it has only become more difficult during the last ten years, when more and more models of AC have become available, many with very high …
Read MoreToday’s homes can have many different types of heating systems warming them: heat pumps, boilers, ductless mini splits, electric furnaces, and radiant in-floor heating. But the gas furnace is still the heating king, found in millions of home from the midnight sun regions of Alaska to the palm-dotted beaches of Florida—as well as here in …
Read MoreAs we come closer and closer to the summer (the official start is less than a month away now!) our residential air conditioners are going to do more and more work. You know what this means: higher electrical bills. But your bills may not need to be too high. If you take some of these …
Read MoreSpring has arrived and with it, your heater will see reduced use as you slowly shift to air conditioning season. That makes this an ideal time to consider installing a new heating system, especially if your existing system is old, inefficient or has suffered serious problems over the course of the winter. Here in Redlands, …
Read MoreHere in Yucaipa, our air conditioners tend to work harder than in many other areas of the country. They need to be powerful, of course, but they also need to be energy efficient in order to keep costs to a minimum during the hottest part of the year. If you haven’t already signed up for routine …
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