Gas Furnace Maintenance – Hire a Pro

Are you worried about gas furnace maintenance? This is something that you have to think about if you have one of these systems in your home. Although it is important that you learn a thing or two about your system, you also need to keep in mind that hiring a professional can be a very good idea. With professional help you never have to worry about your furnace breaking down and leaving you stranded. Instead, you can always get assistance when you need it.

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Things you didn’t know about your furnace

At a dinner this week in San Francisco, I found myself seated between Matt Golden, co-founder of energy efficiency retrofitter Recurve — the startup formerly known as Sustainable Spaces — and Cisco DeVries, co-founder of Renewable Funding, the Oakland outfit that pioneered municipal financing of residential solar arrays.

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Detoxifying your home: Don’t clean with poisons

When most people think of a clean home, they think of sparkling countertops, perfectly polished floors and neatly vacuumed carpets. But for Marti Matsch, director of communications at Eco-Cycle, it’s the quality of air circulating through the home that determines how clean it is.

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Chemical sensitivity: protecting yourself in the home

Chemical sensitivity — also termed toxic injury, environmental illness or sick building syndrome — refers to the repeated appearance of symptoms like headache, confusion, sleepiness, upset stomach, aching joints, or problems with ears, nose, and throat resulting from relatively low levels of exposure to chemicals. The good news is that the symptoms improve or disappear entirely when the triggering chemicals are removed.

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Mobile Home Furnaces–Select The Right One

Furnaces for use in mobile or manufactured homes are considerably different from standard home furnaces. It is necessary to choose and purchase the right heating system, which is suitable for use in your mobile home. You must get a system which is specifically designed for use in a mobile home. Air ducts are small and corners are tight. The result is that air does not flow quite as freely or easily as it does in a standard home.

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Quality of a Good Furnace Contractor

For the past 8 years I have renovated condominiums, built new homes and remodeled old ones. To date, we have worked on over 50 projects. If there is one piece of advice I would give to a homeowner looking to get a furnace repair or installation done, it would be find a good contractor and get at least 3 quotes from local contractors. This article will focus on choosing a contractor to install or repair a new furnace.

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What Are the Dangers of Oil Furnaces?

The most common danger of burning oil is the release of carbon monoxide into your home. A furnace functioning normally will produce by-products in the form of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor and carbon monoxide, but these gases are forced up the chimney and out of the house. Oil furnaces pose a threat when they are dirty or malfunctioning.

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States get tough on outdoor wood furnace smoke

When oil prices climbed, more people turned to wood to heat their homes, many using outdoor wood furnaces that to some are air-polluting nuisances.

From Vermont to Connecticut to Indiana, some neighbors have complained about smoke from these furnaces drifting into their yards and homes, in some cases triggering asthma attacks and lung problems. Several Vermont homeowners said the smoke has even set off smoke alarms in their own homes; at least two of those affected said they have had to move.

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Homefix: Keep the heat out of your house

There is still time to prepare your home for the hot summer months ahead. You can lower your energy consumption, and possibly your energy bills, by simply maintaining the furnace and air-conditioning filter on a regular basis.

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Is Your Furnace Ready For Winter?

I walked outside this morning and I could feel it in the air — the first signs of Fall. The air felt cooler than normal and the breeze was crisper. The fall colors were exciting to see. Halloween, is and the first snow fall are coming soon.

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