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Getting your chill on

In the cooling season the cold dense air needs a little more help to flow. So we turn the furnace up to high speed to get that air to flow.

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Heat Recovery Ventilator

A Heat recovery ventilator has a few jobs to do and does a good job at it as long as its being maintained and is set up properly. So what...

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Savings Down the Drain

it was able to heat the incoming water by about 7 degrees and that is pretty good considering this one was hooked up backwards.

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Air Conditioning basics

make sure the unit is powered for 24hrs before you use it for the first time. This will allow time for the oil to warm up before use.

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Attic Rain

What is attic rain? When humidity gets trapped or there is just too much inside the attic, it will build up as frost on the roof sheeting, a

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What's in the attic stays in the attic.

Vermiculite insulation was a popular material in the 1950's and continued with the energy crisis into the late 1970’s. In Canada, it was one

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Warm Weather and Wet Basements

Our basement floor is shiny: it’s covered in water It’s that dreaded first step onto the basement floor when you get that squishy feeling...

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A wireless what?? light switch??

It's amazing what Technology can do for us now. I was inspecting a house and my client was very disappointed with the location of the...