Detecting air leaks can be an easy or difficult process, depending on where the leak is located. The signs of warm air leaking from your house are sometimes physically felt, but they often go unnoticed as you crank your heat up higher and higher. Therefore, knowing how to inspect for air leakage is important for your personal comfort, as well as for the energy efficiency of your house.
Detecting and Preventing Air Leaks In Your Home
Topics: energy tips, home tips
There’s nothing funny about frozen pipes. Cold weather can be bad enough, but having water pipes freeze is something no homeowner needs. Every winter, thousands of homes suffer from frozen pipes that cost thousands of dollars of damage per building. That’s a terrible loss, but the really sad thing is that almost all repair costs of frozen pipes are preventable.
Topics: heating systems, home tips
Winter is coming just as it always does. Are you ready to fight back against the cold?
Topics: heating oil, energy tips, home tips
Being a homeowner means you always have to have one foot in the future. You're anticipating potential problems, needs, repairs and maintenance. With so much to think about, it can be easy to forget the less obvious systems in your home that need tending to. One of these systems is your oil heating system.
Topics: heating oil, home tips, oil tanks
Prep Your House For Fall: Fall Cleaning Tasks
With Fall right around the corner take a minute to review our list of cleaning tasks to prepare your home for the colder months ahead.
Topics: home tips
When it comes to indoor air conditions, people tend to concern themselves primarily with the quality of air during summer. However, indoor winter air quality is equally important.
Topics: air filteration, home tips
Transform Your Basement Into an Awesome Man Cave
Fall is quickly approaching which means colder weather, football, and more time inside. Do you want to create a space of your own to get the most out of the season — a space that truly showcases what you like and will be your retreat at the end of a long cold day? If so, you’re looking for a man cave.
Topics: home tips