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3 Ways To Ensure That Your Heating System Isn't Impacting Your Indoor Air Quality

Good indoor air quality is absolutely vital when trying to keep your family and yourself healthy. Here are three ways to ensure that your heating system isn't impacting your indoor air. Make Sure To Have Your Ducts Cleaned Periodically One of the most overlooked ways to keep your heating system from impacting your indoor air quality is having your ducts cleaned. In many cases, people go many years without even thinking about cleaning out their ducts, which is a problem as dust, allergens, and all kinds of other nasty stuff are going to be building up in those ducts.

Four Tips For Improving Indoor Air Quality

If you are someone who suffers from seasonal allergies, keeping the indoor air quality in your home at bay is essential. Here are four tips to help you do this: Vacuum Regularly: Vacuuming regularly is important since it removes the dirt and dust before it has time to start circulating through your HVAC system, which is how it makes its way into the air. This is what causes irritation for those with seasonal allergies.

Is A Cold House Good For You?

Your central heating unit is not working efficiently, and maybe you're thinking: "I think I'll just skip heating repair this time around. I can survive a cold house." Before you settle, read on and find out how a cold house will affect you: Pros Weight Loss Contrary to what you may have heard, cold weather causes you to lose weight. Sleeping in low temperatures increases brown fat, a good fat that helps to keep you warm by burning calories.

Hot-CHOO! Three Reasons Why Your Heating Is Suddenly Making You Sneeze

When you turn your heating on for the first time late in fall or early winter, you only expect to feel toasty-warm. You do not expect to suddenly cough, sneeze, and have congestion and a runny nose. What exactly is going on with the heating and air in your home? If this happens to you every year, and you are tired of it, you need to know the probable reasons why.

Why Wait? 4 Household Chores to Take Care of Before Winter Arrives

Now that summer is over, you need to really get busy. With all the things you need to do to get back into your hectic schedule, including kids going back to school, and you heading back to work, it can be easy to forget about home maintenance issues. Unfortunately, ignoring your home maintenance chores can leave your home susceptible to some serious problems. Don't delay your home maintenance any longer. Get your home ready for the long winter ahead by taking care of these four projects.

How To Replace An Old Toilet

Toilets break or stain, or are simply outdated and use too much water. The good news is that that old or broken toilet can be replaced fairly easily, even if you are a novice homeowner. See below for instructions on how to replace an old toilet with a new one. Here's What You'll Need: New toilet Pipe wrench New water line Flange Wax ring Level Caulk/caulk gun Razor blade Bucket Rags Instructions:

Four Common Air Conditioning Questions... Answered Concisely

Air conditioning is complicated. That should be no secret, being that HVAC technicians need to spend several years learning and training before becoming fully licensed to install and repair systems. As a homeowner, it is not uncommon for you to have questions about air conditioning. But the answers you find in guides written for HVAC experts may be tough to understand, leaving your head spinning. You're not an HVAC expert, and you don't strive to be -- but you do deserve answers that you understand.

How To Improve Your AC Air Quality

The quality of the air in your home largely depends on how well you maintain your AC system. That is, if you AC and air filters are not regularly cleaned or changed, you could end up with dusty air. Allergens like dust mites, dander and pollen can get recirculated into your home if you AC system is not doing its job. The air conditioner is responsible for much more than just blowing cold air into your rooms.

Five Reasons Your Furnace Is Blowing Cold Air

If you turned your furnace on this winter, you may have noticed that your furnace is blowing cold air. Obviously, this is a problem because you want the furnace on to make your home more comfortable in the chill of winter, especially at night. Here are five reasons your furnace might be blowing cold air instead: The Thermostat is Set to On: If you notice cold air coming from the vents, it might simply be because your thermostat is set to on instead of auto.

Tips For Preparing Your Furnace For The Summer

Many homeowners are familiar with the importance of having their furnace tuned up and serviced before the winter months, but they may overlook the need to prepare the furnace for the idleness of the summer months. Failing to prepare your furnace for these periods of time can result in the system experiences performance issues when you first activate it.   Have Your Furnace Cleaned After a long winter of heavy use, it is likely that a sizeable amount of residue has gathered in the furnace.