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Heating maintenance
Here are some ideas and steps you can take to help you ensure your heater is working optimally. Proper heating maintenance will save you aggravation and money. Each fall, replace the furnaces filter. This is something as basic and necessary as changing the oil in your car. A clogged filter will make the furnace work harder, be less efficient and more expensive, and can also shorten the life of the unit. Unfortunately many homeowners do not do this simple maintenance nearly often enough. If you think you are not getting enough heat, particularly in certain rooms, make sure there is … Continue reading
Cutting home heating bills
As the cost of heating homes, and thus our heating bills, goes up this winter homeowners will be marketed to from companies that promise big home energy savings, cutting home heating bills. But beware, these savings could come at a huge price! The reality is that the “energy savings” may cost thousands and thousands of dollars and can many years just to pay for the improvements themselves. Energy savings that take up to 20 years to pay for themselves are hardly emery savings! As homeowners, with any energy improvement project, we need to really figure out how much money the … Continue reading