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HVAC and New Construction, Home Additions and Multi-Family Dwellings

HVAC is a fairly complicated concept, and homeowners who want to save money and live a more efficient lifestyle need to pay attention to their HVAC systems. However, if you are building a new home, adding an addition to your home or trying to heat and cool a multi-family dwelling, you have to pay even more attention to your HVAC system. This blog has tips and posts on HVAC in all of those scenarios as well as ideas on HVAC in other situations. Hi, my name is Mary, and as the person who balances the budget in our home, I have learned a lot about HVAC systems over the years. I know how to pick efficient designs, how to keep the bills low and how to make the most of your HVAC system. Please explore these posts for ideas and help.

Archive

Minimising the Environmental Impact of Your Home's Air Conditioning

Posted on May 8, 2020

The simple act of turning on your air conditioner can create an awkward contradiction. Operating an air conditioner contributes to increased greenhouse gas emissions, which plays a role in climate change, which can present itself as global warming, which makes you need to use your air conditioner even more to counteract an increase in outside temperature. Sure, offices, retail outlets, and indoor leisure spaces are all reliant on air conditioning, but residential air conditioning can also play a considerable part, especially when you consider the fact that only 26% of Australian households don't have any form of air conditioning. [Read More]

Criteria for hiring an HVAC repair company

Posted on October 17, 2019

In Australia, almost all commercial units and residential buildings use air conditioning systems. The systems provide a comfortable environment, especially during summer. However, when one of the units stops operating normally, it produces a lesser cooling effect and consumes a lot of energy.  When a breakage happens, it is often more cost-effective to repair the specific part other than purchasing an entirely new unit. You can do the repairs yourself, although you can quickly end up damaging the group further. [Read More]

Let Commercial Refrigeration Experts Keep Your Yogurt Business Growing

Posted on September 24, 2019

It's sad that all the commercial appliances, including your yogurt refrigerator or freezer, wear down with time or develop some problems along the way. Though you are careful to keep the freezer in your frozen yogurt business in good shape, it will malfunction at some point. Don't concentrate more on the problem your commercial fridge has developed but on how it would be fixed. Refrigerators are among the appliances that untrained or incompetent hands shouldn't handle when they are faulty. [Read More]

Here's How to Minimise Mould Infestation in Your Vacation Home Air Conditioning System

Posted on May 13, 2019

Vacation homeowners are no strangers to the persistent intrusion of foul-smelling, allergy-inducing mould into their living spaces. Although mould is pretty much ubiquitous, it especially thrives in the AC system of a vacation home since you are not always there to deal with the problem as it arises.  Even with the latest, more sophisticated AC system, mould can easily establish colonies inside the ductworks and thrive in the presence of moisture and food. [Read More]