A frozen heat pump can leave you wondering what to do in order to maintain your comfort in your Kansas City area home. While in winter some visible frost is common on the outside coil, excessive amounts of ice in any season is an issue that will need to be checked out with a service call. Excessive icing can occur for a …
Got A High-Efficiency Furnace? Here’s How To Maintain The Outdoor Sidewall Vent Piping Termination
A high-efficiency furnace can save your family substantially on your heating bills, depending on where you live and what you pay for natural gas, propane or fuel oil. These furnaces also provide improved home comfort, with even and reliable heating. However, these furnaces use a different process for venting combustion gases and by-products.
5 Reasons Why Humidifiers Leak, And What To Do About It
Leaking humidifiers are a common problem for local homeowners here in the greater Kansas City area. If your home humidification system is older and hasn’t been maintained, leaks commonly occur.
Dealing With A Red-Tagged Furnace? Learn How To Explore Your Options
After learning that you have a “red-tagged” (intentionally disabled) furnace, the HVAC contractor or gas provider’s representative has probably told you that you have a safety issue that needs immediate attention.This issue often refers to a faulty heat exchanger, the heart of any gas furnace. In this case, you’ll either have to replace the heat exchanger or the entire furnace. Heat …
R-22 in the News
Click Here to Download PDF Article Recently the EPA has tightened the reins on the production of R-22 refrigerant. The reasoning behind this goes back to the 1980’s when world scientists’ discovered the rapid depletion of the earth’s Ozone layers caused by Chorine evaporating into the earth’s atmosphere. Many chemicals we use for everyday life contain Chorine including bleach, table …
Choosing Home Insulation? Look Carefully At The Differences Between Types
Choosing home insulation can be a challenge since it’s so important to select the right type. Even an energy-efficient furnace will have to work much harder if your home lacks good insulation. How do you know which is best for your home? What criteria needs to be met? Let’s look carefully at the main types of home insulation.
Get Familiar with Solar Terms Before You Upgrade
If you’re considering reducing your carbon footprint and/or cutting your electrical costs, switching to solar power might be a viable option. Solar power captures light from the sun and then converts it into energy. Before you consider making the change to solar power, it’s important to become familiar with common solar terms.
Decrease Water Heating Bills With 6 Tips For Improving Performance
If you’re like most homeowners, you would like nothing better than to find an effective way to decrease water heating bills in your Kansas City area home. You may already be keeping up with maintenance on your storage tank water heater, flushing the system of debris and getting it serviced regularly. But those bills are staying high for some reason.
Energy Tax Credits Are Back On: Additional Tax Savings When Upgrading HVAC Equipment
If your home has older HVAC equipment that does not meet current energy-efficiency standards, at some point you’re going to need to upgrade to higher-efficiency equipment. Legislation President Obama signed on Jan. 2, 2013 to avoid the “fiscal cliff” includes reinstatement of federal energy tax credits for residential energy-efficiency improvements that lapsed at the end of 2011. This makes many …