Aeroseal Is the Best Way to Make Your Ducts Airtight Again
What is the best way to seal up leaky air ducts? There are a few options available: Do it yourself by using duct tape. (This actually won’t work! Please forget we even mentioned it.) Using a special resin-based mastic sealant. The mastic is applied along the leaks and breaks to create a flexible seal. Apply …
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Jul 16 2018
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Allergy Season Is Coming: Prepare with Indoor Air Quality Services
The drought in Southern California is expected to make allergy season worse this year, with a dramatic increase in the pollen count in the air. If your household has people in it who suffer from allergies and asthma, this may be a particularly difficult spring season for them. But there are ways that you can …
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Cold Spots in Your Home? The Ductwork May Be the Guilty Party!
The weather over the last month here in Southern California has taken some strange shifts, with colder temperatures than normal and stretches of heavy rain. The rain is great news for dealing with our drought problem, but the downpours have also brought cold weather. We’d guess that you have put your heating system, whether an …
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Jul 16 2018
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Don’t Pay to Heat and Cool Your Attic!
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 …
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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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Is Fall a Good Time to Schedule Your Duct Cleaning?
How long has it been since you’ve had the air ducts in your home cleaned? If your first thought upon hearing this question is, “I need to have my air ducts cleaned?”, you are definitely overdue for the job! In general, duct cleaning should be arranged every two to three years, depending on how much …
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Jul 16 2018
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Getting Ready for Allergy Season in Your House
When does it officially become “allergy season”? There’s no date for it like there’s a date for the start of spring or the beginning of daylight savings time; it depends on what part of the U.S. you live in and the changes in temperature from one season to another. However, the average range for allergy season …
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Jul 16 2018
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How to Prevent and Protect Yourself from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
We recently discussed the danger of cracked furnace heat exchangers and how this can lead to carbon monoxide (CO) entering your home and posing major health risks. Any use of natural gas in a home presents some risk of CO leaks, and it’s important that you take steps to prevent this from occurring and to …
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Ways an Air Purifier Cleans Household Air
Low indoor air quality is a problem that can affect us here in Southern California around the year. With our houses so well insulated against outside heat—a necessity considering our long hot seasons and heat spells during other parts of the year—too many contaminants from indoor sources start to build up without escape. Building materials, …
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Duct Sealing with Aeroseal
Leaks in air ducts are one of the major sources of energy efficiency loss in an HVAC system. Studies by the U.S. Department of Energy have shown that up to 30% of the heated/cooled air moving through a ventilation system can be lost to air leaks. That’s energy needlessly going to waste. If you have …
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