Repair or Replace?: 8 Tips to Consider
High Energy Bills: This is always the first selling point that most HVAC contractors will propose, and it really is something that should be considered. Older furnaces are often around 65% or less...
View Article4 Common Furnace Mistakes: Registers
In the past, many homeowners would close off vents in various rooms of the home in order to direct all of the heat to one area and to save money. Nowadays, many people are still doing this, but does...
View ArticleSunny Day Savings
As the credit card bills roll in from the gift giving season, many of us are scraping together funds to make ends meet, and saving money on the heating bill would be a great way to do so. You have...
View ArticleEnergy Audit 101
There are literally thousands of ways to improve the energy efficiency of your home, but finding a place to start can become overwhelming. Not many people are made of money, so before you start any...
View ArticlePotted Protectors: Using Plants to Improve Air Quality
When it comes to improving the air quality in your home, you have several choices. Air purifiers, furnace filters, UV lights, and air cleaners are all popular products that homeowners have been using...
View ArticleStart the Spring Off Right!
Spring signifies a new beginning for everything around us. The trees and flowers begin to bud, and we will soon start the yearly ritual of cleaning the home top to bottom. However, spring cleaning...
View ArticleEnergy Conscious Water Heating
When it comes to energy conscious home improvements, picking an effective place to spend your money is often the most difficult decision. Not all of us have money to blow on improvements that aren’t...
View ArticleSun Powered Air Conditioners
Are you still making excuses not to “go green” in your home? Of all the complaints we have heard about going green, cost has got to be number one on that list. However, we think that in the case of...
View ArticleWindow Air Conditioner Waste
Choosing a window air conditioning unit over a central air conditioning system can in some cases be a much more energy efficient option. However, many people do not use these systems properly and...
View ArticleDoes Energy Efficiency Really Matter?
My next door neighbor and I built our homes at the same time back in 1996, and our layouts are about the same. However, when it came to the heating and cooling equipment, he chose to go with the...
View ArticleWhat’s All this Talk about SEER Ratings?
SEER ratings seem to be the deciding factor these days when it comes to replacing the air conditioning system, but few actually understand the concept of this energy efficiency rating system. So, I’ve...
View ArticleHigh Efficiency Air Conditioners Offer Worthwhile Savings
I was surprised the other day by how many of the highest efficiency air conditioners HVAC contractors are keeping in stock. Usually they seem to stock a few of each size and model, and more often than...
View ArticleOutrageous Electric Bills!
The heat wave is over but some people are still hot under the collar. Why? They just got the electric bills. More than one couple is sitting there drinking their morning coffee and blaming each other...
View ArticleConserving Energy without Sacrificing Comfort
More and more Americans are becoming energy conscience from both a conservation and a cost standpoint. A generation ago our grandparents would have sacrificed comfort to save a few dollars, but...
View ArticleGoing Green and Eliminating Water Waste
If your home was built before 1990 and you haven’t replaced any of the original fixtures, odds are you are wasting tons of water with every flush of a toilet and turn of a dial. Old toilets and...
View ArticleCan You Afford to Go Green?
When energy efficient home improvements first exploded onto the home improvement scene, many of them were excessively expensive. Yes, they offered beefy long term savings but not many homeowners could...
View ArticleWi-Fi Thermostats Mobilize HVAC Control
Controlling the heating and cooling systems in your home has always been pretty basic. All you had to know was that the up arrow would increase the temperature and the down arrow would decrease the...
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Power Down Your Home While You are Away
No one likes to pay for something that they aren’t going to use. We opt out of extended warranties and rental car insurance for this very reason, yet every time we leave our homes empty we are left...
View ArticleAre Household Cleaning Products Polluting Your Indoor Air?
The average person spends 87% of their time indoors either at home or at another indoor location. What happens when that time is also spent breathing in toxic air? The EPA has found that the air...
View ArticleGo Green or Go Home
Four Seasons has made a conscious effort to go green this year. Helping the environment and the community have become very important to Four Seasons as supply and demand has become scarce. Today,...
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