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If You’ve Nursed Your Furnace Through The Heating Season, Now’s The Time To Buy

If you’re nursed a temperamental furnace through the heating season, you know how frustrating it is to have a heating system that doesn’t work properly. It may have been a serious aggravation, but your decision to delay the purchase of … Continue reading

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Plan Your Geothermal System Now — You’ll Be Ready To Dig As Soon As Spring Sets In

Have you grown weary of winter? Do you look forward to summer but the hot muggy weather not so much? Energy costs remain high, which is reflected each month in your electric and gas bills. Heating and cooling your home, … Continue reading

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Two Pressing Reasons To Have Those Ductwork Leaks Sealed: Energy Efficiency And Family Safety

Ductwork leaks could be seriously reducing the energy efficiency of your heating system, costing you a great deal of money each month in the form of wasted energy. Even worse, if your ducts are leaking, they could be putting you … Continue reading

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Degree Days: How They Figure In Energy-Use Calculations

Degree days offer a means of calculating the amount of heating and cooling required by your home on a given day, month or year. This information can then be used to make comparisons to the heating and cooling averages of … Continue reading

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Is A Heat Pump The Way To Go For My Cooling Needs?

Increasingly homeowners are considering whether a heat pump would be a good alternative to the traditional air conditioning-furnace system. While they can be more efficient than furnaces for heating in the winter, especially in a moderate climate, they also can … Continue reading

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