Posts Categorized: Heating

Providing reliable heat to homes since the 1800s, radiators are durable units that can last many years. Yet as with most home mechanicals and major systems, they too can suffer corrosion, cracks, leaks, and other damage that requires repair. Depending on the type, age, and condition of the system, repairs can be simple fixes or… Read more »

So, let’s see, your home is no doubt equipped with a furnace or boiler, water heater, central AC system – and right there you have a lot of money invested and a lot of equipment to maintain to prevent untimely mishaps. But what if you were to combine two of those systems into one for… Read more »

If every room of your home feels perfectly comfortable no matter the season, consider yourself lucky. Perhaps your home is newer or contains separate heating and cooling zones sized perfectly and maintained faithfully. Yet, not all homes – or the people in them – have it so good. Take yours, for example. Are you experiencing… Read more »

A furnace that won’t heat up usually prompts a call to your friendly neighborhood home heating professional. But before you dial up the number, first do a little private investigating of your own.  You might just find the solution is readily at hand and save yourself some money in the process. Dirty filter – Remove… Read more »

Raise your hand if you remember the vintage Certs TV commercials that endlessly drove home the following: “Certs is a candy mint. Certs is a breath mint.  Certs is two, two, two mints in one.” Here’s a vintage TV commercial that might help freshen up your memory. Corny or not, this classic ad campaign and… Read more »

Long, cold winters cost more to heat your home than a more mild-mannered winter season. That assumes, of course, you don’t resort to the ways of pioneers and wrap yourselves in buffalo hides, deer-skin leggings, and other prairie-living attire so you can keep your thermostat down to about 55 degrees or so – just warm… Read more »