Replace Air Filters On Things That Have Air Filters!
Let’s Start With Your Furnace.
You might think a furnace has air filters to clean the air in your house. While that is true, the key reason is to keep dust out of the furnace.
A furnace and especially an air conditioner has lots of surfaces in there that exchange heat. That is to say, when air goes over a hot surface, it becomes warm. When air goes over a cold surface, it becomes cool. When a furnace filter is dirty it reduces air flow and lets dust get through into the furnace/AC. Dust is an insulator, and when the surfaces the air goes over are dusty and dirty, the efficiency goes down.
What is efficiency?
Think of it as how much benefit do I get for how much money. The furnace or air conditioner only costs you money when it is running – and it will have to run longer if the filter is dirty and/or the heat exchange surfaces inside it are dirty.
If the filter is completely plugged, it can damage an air conditioning system. So, change that air filter regularly!
Our dehumidifiers are the same.
Dehumidifiers are air conditioners that put the heat back into the same space rather than outside. They have lots of nooks and crannies for heat exchange.
Keeping the filter clean will keep it working well with high efficiency. We recommend once a year. We can do it when we come for annual maintenance on your system.
Our Aspen Air Purifier has filters in it.
The filter stack should be changed once per year. If you don’t do it, they will continue to clog, block air flow, and not work well.
Your Home Harvest’s Water
Your roof keeps the rain off of you and your family. It’s pitched and gathers all the rain and concentrates it in a small area. One inch of rain on an average 2,200 square foot roof amounts to 1,550 gallons of water! That’s 12,400 pounds of water! Management of that water is very important – you don’t want it in the soil around your foundation to put pressure on your walls, cause settling, and have your sump pump have to pump it all out. And you don’t want it washing out your landscaped areas or yard, or to fill your basement window wells with water either.
Another thing roofs are good at collecting is leaves! Leaves clog gutters and cause them to overflow. It doesn’t matter if your downspouts are extended away; the water never makes it there. And who cleans the gutters? How much time or money does that cost? And how do you know when they need cleaning? (When they area already clogged and overflowing!)
There is a simple, permanent solution. RainDrop GutterGuard! It is simply the best gutter guard in the world. We manufacture this product! Here is a link to a short video.
Interested in never cleaning your gutters again and not having these water problems from your gutters?
Give us a call. We can have it taken care of for you very soon!
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