What to Do When Your Furnace Trips a Circuit Breaker
Here’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 …
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Jul 16 2018
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Is a High-Efficiency Air Conditioner Automatically Your Best Option?
So 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 …
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Jul 16 2018
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Why Are Gas Furnaces So Common for Home Heating?
Today’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 …
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Jul 16 2018
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Ways to Increase Your Air Conditioning Efficiency
As 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 …
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Jul 16 2018
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3 Things to Consider Before Installing a New Heating System
Spring 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, …
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Jul 16 2018
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Is It Too Late for Air Conditioning Maintenance?
Here 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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How Air Conditioning Problems Get Worse without Repairs
When you notice a minor problem with your air conditioner during the summer, you may be tempted to simply ignore it and only schedule repairs if something worse occurs. Or you could simply wait until the next scheduled maintenance visit (usually in spring) to have a technician locate what’s wrong. This is a big mistake! …
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Jul 16 2018
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Best Ways to Get Started with Better Indoor Air Quality for Your Home
If you have concerns about the quality of the air in your home, you’re not alone. Numerous residential (as well as commercial) buildings today suffer from an excess of airborne contaminants circulating through the HVAC system. The heavy insulation that seals off buildings from outdoor temperatures tends to worse these problems, since it prohibits fresh …
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Jul 16 2018
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Does Heating Maintenance Really Do Any Good?
A few weeks ago, when it was still officially summer, we posted about the importance of getting heating maintenance scheduled during October. It’s still hot here in the Southern California deserts, and that means you have time to arrange for maintenance if you haven’t done so yet. You might think that this seems a bit extreme. Is this …
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Jul 16 2018
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Help, My Air Conditioning Isn’t Sending Out Cold Air!
This isn’t a situation you ever want to run into during a hot Southern California summer day: an air conditioning system that’s only sending out room-temperature air, rather than the crisp, cooled air you expect. The first thing to keep in mind when you run into an AC that isn’t doing its job is not …
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