While summer can be a great time to relax and unwind with your friends and loved ones, it can also be hot! You may start to feel uncomfortable with the temperature in your own home. Luckily, there are ways to stay cool without having to overuse energy and overpay for energy costs. Take a look at the following information for some helpful tips on how to trim energy costs during the hot summer months.
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Do you sweat a lot in your house because the air conditioner (AC) has stopped producing cold air? The most important part of a central air conditioning system is the evaporator coil, so you may want to hire a contractor to inspect it. Find out in this article what can cause cooling problems for an evaporator coil, as well as what kind of fees you may have to pay if a new system is needed.
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Did you recently purchase a new home and now face cooling costs far higher than you were anticipating? Your inspector should've checked that the air conditioning system was working during the buying process, though there are ways an underperforming system can slip through unnoticed. And there are other maintenance and functional problems that can create more work for your cooling system.
Here are three potential reasons your new home has higher cooling costs than other homes in the area.
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What if you could heat your home without using a fossil fuel? What if you did not have to draw electricity from the grid? What if you only needed one piece of machinery? You can achieve all of these objectives simply by using a heat pump in your home. If green heating is your goal, you have two main types of heat pumps to choose from: air-source and ground-source.
How Does a Heat Pump Work?
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If your air conditioner goes out on a hot day, the first thing you want to do is put a call in to an HVAC technician. However, it may take them a while to get to you. Therefore, you want to keep your house as cool as possible in the meantime. Use the tips in this article to keep cool when your AC isn't working.
Open and close windows during best times of the day: Many people make the mistake of keeping their windows open all day when they are trying to cool their house.
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