While everyone readily acknowledges the heating and air conditioning segments of an HVAC system, “ventilation” is often overlooked or forgotten. However, your home’s ductwork is an important aspect of your home’s air quality. By providing channels for the heated or cooled air to be transported into the different areas of your home, as well as…
While a warm, cozy home in the winter is ideal, oftentimes the increase of a few degrees on the thermostat can cripple your bank account. Thankfully, there are more than a few “lifehacks” to increase the heat in your home and reduce drafts this winter. Take the time now to see which of these you…
Furnace filters are often one of the most overlooked pieces of home maintenance; they’re not at all exciting like power tools, and far from eye-catching like crown molding. But that does not mean they are unworthy of your attention. The right furnace filter can save you money and improve your indoor air quality. Originally, these…
Winter indoor air quality is critical for your family’s health. Air quality is defined as a comparison of the total pollutant levels in a home or other building space to the ambient air volume. In other words, a home with good indoor air quality will have minimal pollutants, whereas a building with poor air quality…
Your HVAC system is as important to the health and comfort of your family as the air the system cycles. HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning, and just as those three terms cover a wide array of capacities and variables, the system requires an array of components to function at its most efficient…
The effectiveness of your HVAC system is important during every season of the year, but winter is one of the worst times to encounter a problem. While a summer outage in your cooling system can be mitigated with fans and iced lemonade, in the winter, there may not be enough blankets and sleeves to warm…
It’s not over yet! Technically, we are only five weeks into the winter season, so it’s helpful to talk about safety for the remainder of the season. There are so many things to look forward to during the winter months. Beautiful snowfalls. Holiday relaxation. Delicious food. But there are also many things to be careful…
Each year, more than 65,000 home fires occur due to heating equipment use. Portable electric space heaters are a convenient source of heat to supplement your central HVAC system. Unfortunately, they can pose significant fire and electrical hazard if not used properly and safely. The Electrical Safety Foundation International provides a list of points to…
Chestnuts roasting in the crackling flames of your cozy fireplace. There’s nothing that more captures the essence of the winter season than a beautiful fireplace that your family can enjoy on a cold night. Aside from the heating potential and electricity savings, there is just something about a blazing hearth that screams “Home.” There are definitely…
Sara Mosle is an educator, and she spent her first year as a public school teacher in Manhattan, specifically at P.S. 98. Even in this day and age, this facility did not have air conditioning. Because many NYC schools remain in session all the way through the end of June, she experienced first-hand the struggles…
