Posts in 2017

Mar 20 Protecting Your HVAC With Surge Protecti...

Your HVAC system, the cooling and heating units you use to condition the air in your home, are an investment. That whole system of ducts and compressors and fans and vents com...

Mar 17 HVAC Considerations When House Hunting

So you’re in the market for a new house? That’s an exciting place to be in, exciting but also potentially nerve-wracking. One of the most stressful things about bu...

Mar 15 Home Window Upgrades for Greater Efficie...

Air conditioning is more than just the air conditioner. And heating is more than just the heater. Controlling the air within your home is an involved process that is influence...

Mar 14 What’s With That Condensation?

This isn't an issue that’s all too unfamiliar to us Texans. Specifically us in central Texas. You wake up bright and early one morning and you notice a strange sight...

Mar 13 HVAC Tips For Cold Fronts

It might have seemed like we were diving head first into the warm season but today and this weekend’s weather just goes to show you can never let your guard down when it...

Mar 10 A Spring HVAC Checklist

Feel that in the air? Kinda feels a little bit like springtime doesn’t it? Of course, being in central Texas, we don’t really experience the seasons the way people...

Mar 08 Simple Ways to Save Energy

When people talk about cutting down on their energy usage they're usually looking for the big thing, the major change they can make that will make a huge impact on their e...

Mar 07 Exhaust Fans and Proper Home Ventilation

Today’s homes are wonders of human achievement. All of human’s history of architecture, material science, and design converge in the modern homes we enjoy today. O...

Mar 06 HVAC Tips For Pet Owners

We rely on our HVAC systems to keep us and all the occupants of our household comfortable. They provide cool air in the hot summers of Austin and heating in the winter. But fo...

Mar 02 Tips for Choosing the Right HVAC Contrac...

So much of how satisfactory your heating and air conditioning system relies on who you choose to install, maintain, and repair it. The fact of the matter is it doesn’t m...

Mar 01 Home Maintenance Tips to Prevent HVAC Br...

One of the most contradictory aspects of being a homeowner is the simultaneously stressful and fulfilling fact that the home is like an ecosystem of its own that will either t...

Feb 28 Energy Saving Tips For Mild Weather

When it comes to how you can change your habits regarding keeping cool or warm and using your HVAC system, there are a million-plus articles out there about the summer and the...

Feb 24 Finding and Removing Mold from Your Home

One of the least attractive words a homeowner can hear is mold. And for good reason. Mold is a big problem in both its scope and its potential negative ramifications. It's...

Feb 22 HVAC Options for Your New Home Addition

So you’re adding a new addition to your home. Congratulations! This can be a very exciting endeavor, despite the amount of work that goes into it. Among the many conside...

Feb 21 HVAC Add-Ons for Improved Indoor Comfort

People do fine with just enough, but oftentimes we crave more than contentedness. Oftentimes people wonder how much better than just enough they could get. This is true in man...

Feb 16 HVAC Air Filter Reminder Tips

This is a subject we’ve touched upon multiple times in this blog. That subject being the regular replacement of the air filters in your home. Your Austin heating and air...

Feb 16 Proof That The Nest Learning Thermostat...

To be honest, it’s hard to prove exactly how much energy programmable thermostats save you. Most thermostat makers claim they can save up an average of 20 percent on you...

Feb 14 AC Vent Location: Does It Matter?

The placement of the vents in your home makes a difference, believe it or not. It may be something you've never paid attention to before, or it may be something you've...

Feb 10 The Best Time to Buy an Air Conditioner

Like all things eventually, you’re air conditioner will run out of time. Air conditioners, when treated well and maintained properly, are loyal machines that will provid...

Feb 06 Heat Pump to Replace Furnace and Air Con...

Today we’re going to do another “versus” tip of the day in which we take a look at two different options for how you implement your HVAC solutions and the di...

Feb 03 Efficiency Standards for Heaters

The reason for the existence of standards is to make sure a minimum is upheld when it comes to the quality of the products we all use that affect both our lives and the genera...

Feb 02 Pest Proof Your HVAC System

There’s a reason we have a synonym for “annoy” called “pester.” Pests are a nuisance, no matter how you look at it. There’s no good outcome...

Feb 01 Questions to Ask When Replacing Your Air...

It probably won’t be today; it probably won’t be tomorrow, but someday in the future, you’ll need to replace your air conditioner. Like all things, it doesn&...

Jan 31 4 Common Air Conditioner and Furnace Mis...

Today let’s continue the trend that started off yesterday by looking at some aspects of home HVAC ownership that affect both the air conditioner and furnace. For most pe...

Jan 27 Replacing Your AC and Furnace Together

Air conditioners and furnaces are two parts of a whole in more ways than one. They’re the yin and yang of your Austin air conditioning and heating home comfort system. O...

Jan 26 Furnace Types

When it comes to home heating in Austin, furnaces remain far and above the most common form. This is true of the United States in general and has been for a while. Why is this...

Jan 24 All About Passive Solar Heating

There’s more than one way to skin a cat and there’s more than one way to heat a house. Some ways work better than others for different people and different regions...

Jan 23 Why is Your Heater Leaking?

comes to almost any household appliance, or really any appliance or machinery one can think of, water leaks aren’t something you want to see. From your refrigerator to y...

Jan 22 The Various Types of Space Heaters

Space heaters represent the ultimate marriage of convenience, energy efficiency, and comfort when it comes to heating in Austin in the winter. Think about how your ceiling fan...

Jan 18 3 Common Boiler Issues and Fixes

Boilers have a rich history about them. They have been used in many different applications to varying degrees of popularity for centuries. In the 20th century, they saw abunda...

Jan 17 2 A/C Options for a Boiler Heated Home

Houses come in many shapes in sizes, these days more than ever before. And the way people heat their homes varies just as much. Furnaces are the most common type of heating in...

Jan 16 Mini Split Heat Pumps versus Heat Pumps

We’ve talked before about the various features and functionalities of heat pumps on this blog. We’ve also touched upon the existence of ductless heat systems, name...

Jan 15 Why Is Your Furnace Loud?

The amenities of our modern lifestyles all ultimately come down to providing one of two things, convenience and/or comfort. Refrigerators and laundry machines are convenient,...

Jan 12 What Happens during a Heating Maintenanc...

To keep your HVAC system functioning at the top of its game, it needs some special attention every once and a while. That’s not to say that heaters and air conditioners...

Jan 11 Sealing Your Ducts for Better Heating

They’re the least visible but most far-reaching part of your HVAC system. They allow the conditioned air to reach every room in the house. They’re the ducts and al...

Jan 11 Common Furnace Problems & Troubleshootin...

In an ideal world, we’d never have to troubleshoot a problem with our furnaces. Furnaces can be found in most homes around the country, being the most common type o...

Jan 10 The Best HVAC Upgrades for Winter

When it comes to HVAC equipment and components you now have more options than ever. There are so many ways to heat and cool your home that sometimes deciding which way is righ...

Jan 09 Off Grid Home Heating in Austin

As our world gets more interconnected, as it becomes easier to communicate with vast numbers of people across the globe and trade resources from one city or country to another...

Jan 06 Solving Uneven Home Heating

comes to residential Austin heating and cooling, some problems that can arise are more common than others. One of the problems you’re more likely to encounter at some po...

Jan 05 Furnace Replacement - Frequently Asked Q...

One of the inevitable facts about owning a furnace is that it will one day have to be replaced. Luckily, these machines, when they come from a good brand a reputable installer...

Jan 03 The Ins and Outs of Space Heaters

months, we’ve talked a lot about heating the home but for the most part, we’ve focused primarily on the concept of centralized residential heating in Austin. Gener...

Jan 02 Boiler Maintenance Tips

While there’s no doubt that in most regions of the nation, including our own here when heating in Austin, the furnace is the most common type of central home heating sys...