Here are a few questions to keep in mind if worried about your home's indoor air quality:

• Do you have symptoms that occur only when you are at home?
• Is anyone else in your family experiencing these symptoms?
• Are the symptoms season-specific or time-specific?
• Have changes recently been made to your house (i.e. remodel or flooding).

If your answer to these questions is yes, we recommend checking with a doctor and contacting us or another qualified IAQ tester to find the source of the problem.

Around 50% of a building's total energy consumption is used to power its HVAC systems, making it a great place to start when looking to save on energy costs. Our advanced Commercial HVAC systems use less energy to help you achieve an ideal level of comfort while gaining better control of your building's energy costs.

If you have unused areas in your building, or an area that is consistently too hot or too cold, installing a system with zoning capabilities will not only help solve these problems, but decrease your energy costs while doing it. A zoning system improves your building in four main areas: comfort, efficiency, control and performance. Comfort and control are improved by adjusting the climate per zone so that each area is comfortable, rather than having a “cold zone” turn the heat up, thereby causing a “warm zone” to be too hot.

The main goal of home performance contracting is to improve a home's comfort, safety, health, durability and energy efficiency. This is accomplished by using the principles of Building Science, looking at the house as a whole, and examining the relationships between all of your home's systems. We focus on all the systems within the building envelope, which include heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment as well as the habits of the home's occupants.

You’ll get longer life from your water heater and prevent breakdowns if you follow this simple guideline:

• Every three months, drain a gallon of water from the tank. Do it every month if you have hard water. This reduces the amount of sediment collecting in the bottom of the tank, which can make the burner or heating coils work harder.

Yes! In our area, comfort systems work hard; and just like anything that might be operating virtually non-stop for months on end, a little regular maintenance goes a long way. Think about the car you drive daily -  without the regular maintenance of a tune-up, you lose efficiency (Miles Per Gallon) and money (to replace those gallons used).

We have a service technician on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So you will always speak to a person, not a machine.

If you are calling to schedule a tune-up, we’ll put you on the schedule and confirm the date and time with you the next day during regular business hours.

Either find your owner’s manual to get it back to Fahrenheit, or call us to help you out. Some of the older models will read Celsius if you accidentally push two buttons by mistake.

That’s right. As of January 2010, cooling system manufacturers can no longer make equipment that uses R-22, commonly known as Freon. R-22 has been found to damage the Earth’s ozone layer, which is a key factor involved in global warming. By 2020, R-22 will no longer be produced. The coolant that has replaced R-22 is known as R-410A, which was developed by the Allied signal company in 1991. Several companies have since trademarked their own version of R-410A, including Carrier (Puron®), Honeywell (Genetron® AZ20) and Dupont (Suva® 410A).

Before you call or e-mail us, go through the troubleshooting steps below to make sure a service call is really needed. It will save you the cost and inconvenience of an unnecessary service visit, and will ensure our technicians are working where they are most needed.