Negative Effects of Dirty Air Filters
The air filter is one of the key components of every HVAC system. It is designed for two purposes: to improve and maintain the air quality and to protect the entire system from potential malfunctions. That is why a clean air filter brings a twofold benefit: it keeps your environment healthy and your HVAC operational. However, the negative impact...
5 Signs That Your HVAC Is Malfunctioning
Air conditioning, ventilation, and heating systems are a necessary part of a modern man’s everyday life. Unfortunately, even with regular maintenance, HVAC systems tend to develop serious faults and defects. To the inexperienced and untrained eye, this could go completely unnoticed. A gradual and systematic failing of HVAC always ends in a sudden breakdown and, for the unlucky ones, this...
What’s That Smell?
If the air coming from your AC vent is smelly, you might have a serious problem on your hands. Household odors are pretty common, and they're not necessarily caused by uncleanliness. While some smells are merely irritating, others are hazardous. Air fresheners and candles are easy to use and affordable, but all of these products contain industrial chemicals which might...
Clogged Dryer Vents – Recipe For Disaster
Home appliances have been making our lives so much easier for so long. Without a washing machine, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, microwave, life seems impossible. But, ever thought what could happen if we don't take care of our appliances? Here's a set of dangerous scenarios caused by the negligence of just one appliance. We're talking about our dryers. Clogged dryer vents...
The Indoor Generation
Thanks to the power of the Internet, activities like “going outside” or “being a productive member of the community” are becoming increasingly optional parts of daily life. Americans spend 90% of their time indoors and an additional 6% in an enclosed vehicle. People are living through their mobile phones, including planning their social lives, paying bills, ordering a pizza,...
Seven Signs of a Good HVAC Technician
Have you ever experienced bad in-home HVAC service or any in-house service for that matter? It has happened to every one of us at least once. When you let the stranger into your home you have certain kinds of expectations, instead what you get is the absence of expertise, reliability, and disrespect. We can all agree that bad in-home...
Defective HVAC – Undetected Time Bomb
It is well-known fact that HVAC systems bring significant comfort on hot summer days or on long winter nights. However, most of the population remain unaware of the potential health risks that HVAC systems necessary impose. Leaving your HVAC unattained for a long period of time could be the main source of a general feeling of overall weakness and...
Top Five Reasons to Have Your Air Ducts Cleaned
You make sure your home stays clean, but are you doing the same for your HVAC system’s air ducts? Admit it or not, there are some places in your homes that don’t get cleaning time as they should. Contamination inside your homes is the last thing you want to have. Having professionals clean your air ducts is a sure way...
Protect Your Family from the Asbestos Pollution
The latest researches shows that, in the last couple of years, air pollution is more serious indoors than outdoors, even in the industrialized cities. Considering that people usually spend more time indoors, many are at risk of exposure to pollution, which leads to growing health problems. Health effects can be experienced right away, or in some cases, years later. One...
Brace Yourselves – Pollen Is Coming
Allergy season has gotten worse over the years, in fact, allergists have been warning us that this allergy season is predicted to be longer and more severe than allergies seasons in the past. In this article, we are going to be talking about pollen allergies, what is pollen and how to deal with them. Pollen is a fine powdery substance that...
