Video – Indoor Air Quality is Important to Your Family’s Health and Well Being
Air quality in your home is important to your family's health.
Air quality in your home is important to your family's health.
Keeping clean air circulating your home is very especially important due to more time spent at home. Contact HomeRx today for more information.
Do you live near a wildfire zone? If so, here are steps you can take to protect your indoor air quality and help keep your loved ones safe.
Change your HVAC filters regularly, as recommended, which is usually at least every three months. A good HEPA filter will catch the particles before they reach your lungs. There’s so much floating in the air our eyes can’t see, and changing your filter as recommended makes all the difference.
Close your blinds on sun-facing windows during the day to keep the sun from heating up your home and causing your AC to use more energy.
Turn on your ceiling fan when you're home while raising the temperature on your thermostat to save energy costs and keep your home feeling cool. Make sure that your fan is rotating counter clockwise to blow the air straight down and therefore feel cool.
It is no secret that your oven will toast your house up and cooking on a cold day is nice sometimes, but on a hot day it will warm your house up in an unnecessary way. Try to utilize the opportunity you might have to cook outside.
The central air conditioning system is a simple pleasure of everyday life. Your home should be a place where you can relax. On a hot day, cool air is essential to your relaxation. If you take good care of your air conditioner with annual inspections and monthly filter swaps, it should last 10 to 15 years.
The best time of year to have your AC serviced is spring, even if you reside in a locale with pretty warm weather all year long.
Indoor air quality is on everyone's mind but how do you know what equipment is right for your home?
A heat pump is a device that transfers heat from one place to another, from inside your home to outside or from outside to inside. In the winter a heat pump works like a heater, extracting heat energy from outside and transferring it inside. In the summer the process reverses and it will remove heat from your home and transfer it outside similar to an air conditioner.
There are a few things to check in your home in the case that your furnace is blowing cold air, such as your thermostat settings, air filter, and your home's ductwork. If you can't figure out the issue, give us a call at 503-479-5290 and we will inspect your furnace.
You turn on your heat pump, and you smell something burning. What should you do? Who should you call first, the fire department or your HVAC technician? First, assess what the smell most likely is, and you may not need to call anyone. Of course, if you’re still nervous because you just don’t know, turn off your heat pump and give one of our highly trained technicians a call to come out to diagnose the smell for you.
Upgrading your HVAC equipment to a higher efficiency system can help you save money on your monthly energy bills. Call us at 503-479-5290 today for more information.
Is your AC making scary noises? Call us today! We can help!
It's time to replace your old or broken AC unit in your home and you don't want anything to go wrong with the new one. Avoid the common mistakes people make when purchasing a new air conditioner and learn how to prevent them.
Just like a regular physical, a regularly scheduled maintenance appointment can help find and diagnose problems that would be otherwise invisible to you because the signs are not easily seen or heard. So often we notice problems only because we miss the benefit we lost when something stops working.