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What dangers could be lurking inside your home? And how can you keep your family safe? One of the biggest risks in modern homes is electricity. It can cause electrocution, of course, but it can also cause electrical fires. Are there electrical safety hazards putting your home and family at risk? What can you do about them? Get help from an electrician! Here’s what you should know.
Often, on our blog, we talk about changing the air filter of your furnace or your air conditioner. We remind you to do this job monthly when the system is in use. But what you might not know is that the air filter that is part of a furnace or AC unit is designed just to protect that system from grit and particles getting into its own workings — not to keep your air clean.
To improve indoor air quality, you need an air filter that is actually designed to clean the air of your home and make it better for you to breathe. We recommend a whole house air filtration system. How do those work? Do you really need one? Let’s consider.
It may seem like there’s a lot of positive information out there about heating with natural gas. If you’re wondering whether a gas or electric furnace is the right choice for you or if you should switch from one to the other, you’re going to need some solid intel. The fact is, an electric furnace has unique benefits, and it might be the best option for you. Let’s discuss it.
You might think of running a fan as something to do in the summer to keep the breeze moving against your skin in the hopes of carrying some of your body heat away with it. But keeping the air moving in your home can be a huge help in winter, too, when you are running the heat.
We’ve got some useful pointers for you. We’ll explain what running a fan in the winter accomplishes and its benefits. We’ll tell you how to set your ceiling fan for the winter months, how to spot a problem with your ceiling fan, and what to do about it.
Winter is well and truly underway. You’ve been using your heating system for a while now. Don’t forget that your furnace needs a little bit of love from time to time throughout the winter! While annual heating system maintenance must be done by a qualified professional, you should be doing regular air filter changes yourself. Here’s how!
Sometimes, people are concerned that natural gas heating systems are dangerous. But natural gas is such a fantastic fuel source—affordable and domestically-produced—that we don’t want anyone to be unnecessarily worried! Should you be anxious about your furnace?
At ServiceMax, we’ve been keeping our neighbors warm and safe since 1998. We’ve got the knowledge and experience to answer your pressing questions about heating system hazards. The bottom line is that gas furnaces can be perfectly safe. They do require some special care, though! Here’s how to avoid gas heating risks.
Groans and wails. Something going bump in the night. What’s lurking in your basement or hiding in a closet? It’s not ghosts or ghouls. It’s actually just your heating system. Why is your furnace making all that noise? Does it need to be repaired? What could be wrong? We’ll explain, so you don’t need to fear your furnace.
This is a very simple truth: your air conditioner should not smell like anything. AC odors are not normal, and if you ever detect any type of odor from your AC, that is a sign of a problem which most likely requires repair.
Why would an air conditioner start to smell? What might it smell like? What could be wrong? We’ve got some answers for you.
The air you breathe has a huge impact on your health and well-being. And if you’re like the vast majority of Americans, you spend almost all of your time indoors, breathing indoor air. Unfortunately, indoor air is almost always much more heavily saturated with contaminants than outdoor air.
Whether you’re concerned about allergens like pollen and dander or pathogens like viruses and bacteria, there’s an answer to your air quality problem: a UV air purifier. What does a UV air purifier do? How does it improve your indoor air quality? It’s really quite simple, but also impressive. We’ll tell you all about it.
Some of the components of your AC system are obvious and easy to understand. If we tell you that there’s a blower fan, and a motor which powers it, you will have already assumed as much. You also know that there’s refrigerant, which flows through coils throughout the system. But some air conditioner components are a little more mysterious.
The more you know about your AC system, the more empowered you will be to take good care of it and keep it running as well as possible for as long as possible. For this reason, we love to provide HVAC education to our customers.
Today, we’d like to tell you about your air conditioner’s thermal expansion valve, and how to know if it might require repair.
