Category: Heating

The big day has finally arrived. No, you’re not leaving for vacation. No new raise to share with your family. And it’s not quite time for the first day of the baseball season. Nope, it’s a day exciting in its Read More

Your heating system is one of the most important and costly pieces of equipment in your home. And yet regardless of its age or how well you take care of it, it won’t last forever. Older model furnaces, for example, Read More

Many people use the terms “furnace” and “boiler” interchangeably, but aside from that fact that both are used to heat your home, they are quite different. When you place a call to a heating and cooling service company, it’s important Read More

The home heating season, no matter how aware you are of its impending arrival, still has a way of sneaking up on you.  One day, you’re running the AC and loving every minute of it. The next morning, you wake Read More

We run into them all the time – new or existing customers who need a new furnace or boiler and tell us they heard from a “friend” who advised them to go smaller to save money both on heating costs Read More

What comes to mind first when thoughts go to heating your home for less? We ask our customers that all the time, and these are among the most frequent answers: Raise the thermostat, especially overnight Switch to programmable thermostats Replace Read More

Sometimes the easiest solution stays hidden for ages, just because you haven’t thought to look there. Here’s a great case in point: your home. More specifically, the air inside your home. On average, it’s twice as polluted as outdoor air Read More

Let’s say you’re visiting friends or family in one of the Great Plains states, like Nebraska.  It’s cold when you arrive from the New York area and, just to make conversation, you say “I hope your boiler’s in good working Read More

During the winter, is there a room or area of your home that’s always colder than the rest of your house? Let’s just say that’s not how your home or heating system was designed, assuming both were designed properly. So, Read More

There’s no statute of limitations on complaining about home energy costs. Nor are you ever too young to start. Newly marrieds complain, Gen X and Y’ers complain, people on fixed incomes complain, even people of substantial means. In light of Read More