As you start using your air conditioner this spring, pay attention to how your AC performs as well as how it sounds. The performance and sound of your AC will let you know if you have any underlying issues to take care of before it gets hot outside. Here is a list of common issues:
#1 Your AC Is Running Short Cycles
When you turn on your air conditioner, it should run a complete cycle.
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Removing A Wood Stove Furnace And Replacing It With A Modern Furnace: How It's Done
Walk into the basement of any home older than a hundred years and you may still find a remnant of yesteryear. It is the wood stove furnace in the basement. These old stoves burned either chopped wood or coal, depending on the homeowner's personal preference, and they vented out of the chimney on the roof. The heat was more or less reliant upon conduction and the scientific principle that heat rises, although some of these antiquated heating methods also had ventilation shafts connected to them in a very rudimentary sort of way.
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Shading And Your AC Unit: What You Need To Know
Every homeowner is always looking for a way to save money, and it doesn't hurt if homeowners can find a way to conserve energy as well. Unfortunately, when the dead of summer hits, you will need your air conditioner. You want to be able to stay cool, save money, conserve energy, and count on your AC unit to keep working, but how in the world can all of that happen at once?
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Easy Ways To Save Money On Commercial Cooling Costs
Running a business is expensive. If you thought you might have an opportunity as a business owner to cut costs in a simple way that doesn't affect day-to-day business operations, wouldn't you jump at the chance? But the fact is that simple cost-cutting solutions already exist and are easily taken advantage of. In 2017, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that the energy used to power air conditioning equipment is the single largest use of electricity in the commercial sector and that 30% of that energy is actually wasted.
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