Your central heating unit is already prepped for colder temperatures — you took care of that a few weeks back when you got it ready for fall. However, you’re not totally out of the woods yet! Now that winter is just over the horizon, it’s time to adjust your preparation just a bit for the […]

Figuring out how to efficiently heat your home is a tough task, and it’s made even harder as we transition to colder weather and tinker with the best way to adjust the heating schedule. Because of the way heating works, you aren’t afforded the freedom to customize your heating pattern the way you want – […]

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. The time spent with family and friends, feasting around a table together, creates some incredible memories, and you don’t want something as irritating as poor air quality getting in the way of it. Few things have the potential to ruin a promising Thanksgiving like yucky, contaminant-filled air, and we […]

Your furnace is always there in your home, silently purring as it keeps powering the air system that flows throughout your home. However, there comes a time when it – like all appliances – has to go. The problem is figuring out when you should pull the trigger, so to speak, and swap it out […]

Well, it’s here. The cold weather has returned after a long vacation, and it’s made its presence known. Maybe it will be around for a while, but seeing as how we’re in Florida, it will probably be gone before we know it. While it’s sticking around, though, we need to make sure our furnaces are […]

One of the more challenging aspects of fall is figuring out how to adjust your home’s comfort level while not breaking the bank. It’s time to start setting the thermostat higher, but that only leads to a more expensive energy bill each month. What can you do, then? It’s like you’re caught between a rock […]

Insulation plays a key part in keeping your home at a comfortable temperature level all throughout the year. Without it, the harsher weather outside would seep indoors and affect you and your family, so it’s imperative that you pay close attention to it. Eventually it – like everything else – will need replacing. But that’s […]

The transition to colder weather involves a lot of turning gears and moving parts, both literally and figuratively. You’ve got to mentally prepare yourself for colder weather – although that’s not always a given here in Cocoa – as well as switching to different equipment. No appliance might be more critical to staying comfortable in […]

It’s almost that time of year, when the summer begins calming down and cooler temperatures slowly creep into the air. The change in environment is definitely welcome here in Cocoa, but the less-than-fun part of that is we suddenly need to switch to using our home’s heating source more. Although we don’t need to heat […]

The struggle to figure out different ways to save money on energy bills is a creative exercise all its own. At the end of the day, we’re still presented with two choices: either suck it up and deal with the higher bills while still using the central AC and heating all the time – or […]