Surge Protectors, they are worth the investment
With today’s high efficiency boilers and furnaces that utilize expensive circuit boards surge protectors are an excellent way to protect your comfort systems investment. Routine scheduled service is the best way to keep your system operating at peak efficiency. Two times a year (spring and fall) are the best times to have a HVAC contractor [...]
Flood damaged Heaters are Potential Hazards
It seems these days we live in a unstable environment when it comes to issues like global warming, earthquakes, tornadoes and floods. When I was growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia in the quaint town of Ridley Park, Hurricane Gloria blew into town and caused a lot of damage. I remember helping my father [...]
Why Choose Radiant Floor Heating?
The best heating system a house can have is the one you don’t realize is there. No radiators clanking in the night. No vents whooshing like a jet preparing for takeoff. No dust-spewing ductwork to run up your allergists’ bills. Just an even blanket of heat, right where you want it. It’s truly invisible. But a [...]
gas fire places or wood fireplaces?
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack frost nipping at your nose. Its that time of year again when the smell of wood fires fill the night air and smoke billows from the chimney tops. That you can’t get from a gas stove but you can get a clean, efficient and ease of clicking a [...]
Are you ready for the iPod Thermostat?
If you own a smart phone you’re 1 of 33% of Americans lucky enough to be able to check your email, search the web and now control your home comfort system that is if you have a Wi-Fi signal you can grab onto. Meet the Nest Learning Thermostat co-founded by Tony Fadell, one of the creative minds that helped bring us the iPod and [...]
Can space heaters save you money?
Now that colder weather fast approaching so will the consumers piling into the the big box stores to purchase space heaters, They have all different kinds, electric floor models, electric table top models,wall mounted gas and of course kerosene units. The big question is can they save you money? if the heating system in your [...]
Safety Tips for this Autumn Season
As the days grow shorter and the leaves start to fall, here are some safety tips that hopefully you will follow as we set back our clocks: Replace the battery’s in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, fire departments recommend that you have at least one smoke alarm on every level and a carbon [...]
The IntelliCon Control can save you 20% on your heating bills
This is a remarkable control that can pay for itself in as little as 4 months. A microprocessor-based, fuel-saving control for hot water (hydronic) heating systems. The HW reduces fuel consumption, wear on parts, flue emissions and electrical usage, when installed on any new or existing gas or oil burner. The HW+ saves energy by [...]
2011 Tax Credits for High Efficiency Comfort Systems
Tax Credits for Homeowners Part of the tax extender bill passed by Congress in December 2010 made significant changes to tax incentives for federal taxpayers who install qualified energy efficient retrofits in their home, including higher efficiency heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment in their primary residences. An eligible taxpayer may claim up to $500 [...]
DIRECT ENERGY A NEW CHOICE FOR PHILADELPHIA ELECTRICITY CUSTOMERS
First thousand customers to enroll get free furnace tune-up to prepare their homes for winter Philadelphia, PA (November 17, 2010) As rate caps are lifted in South Eastern Pennsylvania starting January 1, 2011 – nearly 1.5 million residential electricity customers in the PECO service area will be able to pick which company supplies electricity to [...]
