Heat Gain Adds to Your Cooling Load: How to Minimize It
When the sun is out, heat gain adds to your cooling load and undermines your air conditioning efforts. That’s why it’s important to minimize heat gain for the lowest cooling costs and best home comfort possible. Here’s how.
Dust Is Everywhere, Including Your Home: How Concerned Should You Be?
Dust is more than just that stuff you wipe off your bookshelves once in a while. It is actually something that can make you sick. Dust is a mix of particles, including paper fibers, skin cells, animal and human hairs, pollen, textiles and other substances.
Leaving Town? How the A/C Should Figure in Your Departure Planning
As you prepare for summer vacation, you may be wondering how to secure your home while you are gone. Don’t forget to include the A/C among your plans before you go.
Three Reasons You Might Want a Humidifier in L.A. in the Summer
Summer in Los Angeles does not just mean hot weather. In many parts of our county it also means dry air. This dryness affects your comfort and your home in several ways. Your A/C helps keep you cool, but provides little relief from this dryness. Humidifiers, on the other hand, can help.
Summertime Is Allergy Season in Los Angeles: How Air Cleaning Can Help
If you suffer from allergies, living in Los Angeles can be rough on the respiratory system. Our Mediterranean climate allows for long blooming seasons, which translate to an extended allergy season. Combined with pet dander, mold/mildew spores, and dust, your HVAC system can be inundated with allergens that recycle through a forced air system.
Calculate Appliance Savings With These Tips
If you are trying to cut down on your energy consumption to lower your bills, a good place to start would be to calculate appliance savings in your home. This will also help to see if buying new appliances is worth the investment and will save you money in the long run.
What to Do About R-22? Some Chilling News
R-22 refrigerant is on the way out. As early as 1974, scientists suspected that HCFCs, or hydrochlorofluorocarbons, of which R-22 is one, were bad for the environment. After Joseph Farman and his colleagues published findings in 1985 about the alarming decline of ozone levels, it became clear that R-22 and similar chemicals were playing a role […]
Ductless Mini Splits May Be the Answer for That Hard-to-Cool Room
A ductless mini split is an air-source heat pump (or A/C) with redesigned components which utilize minimal space. Ductless systems also offer homeowners nice extras and features, such as multi-zoned cooling and heating, unbeatable energy efficiency compared to typical heat pumps, and ductless mini splits cool and heat spaces where extending ductwork is impractical or […]
Finding the Right HVAC Contractor: Follow These Tips
When you’re in the market for a new HVAC contractor, you don’t want to choose just anyone. After all, your cooling and heating equipment are essential for your household’s comfort level, not to mention the costs involved when energy is being wasted by inefficient systems. With this in mind, here are several tips to follow […]