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How to Choose the Best Thermostat for your Home
If at any point you’ve purchased new heating and cooling equipment, invested in routine service, or even regularly changed your air filters, you probably recognize the importance of an efficient, well-maintained HVAC system. It’s easy to forget the important role a thermostat plays in your system’s overall functionality and efficiency. If the primary expectation from […]
Common Air Conditioning Myths Uncovered
This spring we’ve been lucky to have a long period of HVAC system inactivity. However, cooling season has now arrived and you’re probably preparing your home for air conditioning (if you haven’t done so already). This is usually accompanied by best practices for saving money and shortcuts for reaching comfortable temperatures faster. In an effort […]
Importance of Plumbing in your Kitchen and Bathroom Renovations
Whether it’s for plumbing repairs or HVAC maintenance, our technicians visit a lot of homes throughout the course of a day. One thing that surprises us is how many of our customers are performing their own home remodeling. More often than not, it’s the bathroom or kitchen which makes sense due to how much use the space […]
What is a Home Energy Audit?
According to research from the Department of Energy the average home has enough air leakage to make up a two foot square hole in a wall—this is the equivalent of leaving a window open for a full 24 hours. We’re hearing about energy efficiency, consumption and the condition of our environment more with each day. […]
Ensuring Efficiency and Savings this Cooling Season
HVAC systems thrive on the downtime offered in between heating and cooling season. However, the optimal time to turn on the air conditioning is before you actually need to, and that time is now! Testing out your air conditioning is recommended before high temperatures arrive in Central Virginia. Whether your system works fine, or you’ve […]
Cooling Season is Around the Corner—What Homeowners Need to Know
We tend to not think about our cooling equipment until we kick it on those first few warm spring days. If you’ve been neglecting preventative maintenance and don’t have seasonal tune-ups performed, you’ll be lucky if your system works properly and efficiently as we inch closer towards cooling season! Maybe you brush off the idea […]
Common Household Plumbing Problems
A home’s plumbing system is a complex network of pipes, drains, valves, fittings and fixtures, all connected to provide water supply and wastewater removal. When you think of a problem occurring within the system, the worst usually comes to mind—a leaking water heater, a burst pipe or a sewage backup. We get many phone calls […]
Preventative Maintenance for HVAC Systems
Preventative maintenance is critical to the performance and longevity of every HVAC system. Just like cars require oil changes to run properly, HVAC systems need tuning up to operate efficiently. Regular service is important for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most significant is that routine maintenance detects problems before they become major, costly repairs. […]
Why is it Important to Prepare Plumbing Systems for Winter?
With the holidays behind us and temperatures feeling much more seasonal it’s time to admit that it’s finally winter in Central Virginia! Although by now you’re probably ready for colder temperatures, and maybe even the potential for some Richmond snowfall, it’s important not to forget some basic tasks that should be tended to around your […]
How to Retrieve Items that Disappear Down the Drain
It’s a common household tragedy—accidentally dropping something down the drain. One of the most frequent items to slip into a wet, mucky oblivion is jewelry. Whether it’s an engagement ring, wedding band, earring or other sentimental, valuable and oftentimes expensive piece of jewelry, the initial reaction is pure panic. Unfortunately, this mishap happens easier than […]