Add HVAC to your New Year's Resolution list.

Over the years, you’ve probably made more than a few New Year’s resolutions concerning your health, but have you ever made resolutions concerning the health of your home? Adding HVAC resolutions to your annual list can also put you on a better path, supporting not only the health of your heating and cooling system but the health of your family and finances as well.

Add these HVAC Resolutions to Your 2020 List & Reap the Benefits

• Schedule an Annual HVAC Checkup
  You schedule an annual checkup with your doctor to ensure your body is healthy. Like you, your heating and cooling system also requires regular care. Scheduling annual maintenance can keep it running efficiently, detect potentially larger problems before they result in unexpected repair costs, and lengthen your system’s lifespan.
• Change Your Filter
  Home air filters should be changed minimally every 3 months. This ensures clean, healthy air throughout your home keeps the components within your heating and cooling system clean, and helps your system run more efficiently, lowering your monthly energy bill.
• Adjust Thermostat Settings
  Lowering your thermostat a few degrees cooler in the winter months and raising it a few degrees in the summer month helps you use less energy, reducing heating and cooling costs, which make up the largest portion of your electric bill.
• Get Smart
  Smart programmable thermostats study your schedule, automatically adjusting temperatures so you’re not conditioning an empty home. This results in less energy use and savings of 20-30%, on average.
• Keep Your Ducts Clean
  Like other surfaces in your home that go untouched, your ductwork also requires regular cleaning to address the buildup of dust, mildew, mold, and other contaminants hidden within. This buildup can negatively impact indoor air quality in your home and decrease HVAC efficiency.
• Watch Out for Humidity Issues in Your Home
  Maintaining the humidity in your home at proper levels is a tricky balancing act. When humidity levels in your home are too high, mold and mildew can thrive, causing damage to the structure and contents of your home, as well as to the health of your family. You can also suffer the effects of low humidity, including frequent coughing, dry, itchy skin, and damage to furnishings and structural components. If last year you suffered these issues, talk to an HVAC service pro about the benefits of adding an automatic humidifier or dehumidifier to manage moisture levels and ensure a healthy, safe home.
• Be Proactive
  If you fear there is something wrong with your system, don’t delay HVAC service. Letting problems fester often leads to higher repair bills and the need for HVAC emergency repair.

Ensure a healthy, happy new year, supporting your own health and the health of your system. Schedule routine annual maintenance with your local air conditioning service company, H & H Heating & Air Conditioning, today.

This blog was originally posted on https://www.delcohvac.com/add-hvac-to-your-new-years-resolution-list/

HVAC Contractor's Guide for your New Heating System this New Year.

Will 2020 be the year you finally invest in a new heating unit for your house? If you’ve noticed the performance of your current system declining this past winter, it may be time to explore your heating system options for the new year. There are many different heating systems to choose from to replace your existing unit. This glut of choices can be overwhelming for some, but the myriad of system styles can help you find the system that is best suited to your home, lifestyle, and budget. Rest assured, no matter what option you choose, it will be much more efficient and technologically advanced than your ailing heater.

Tips for Choosing the Right System

With the guidance of your helpful local air conditioning contractors, you can learn more about the latest system styles and advancements, identify tax rebates and incentives for energy efficiency improvements to your home, and learn more about maintenance agreements and warranties to put your mind at ease. Talk to your local contractor about the benefits of today’s latest heating options:

• Heat Pumps
  Versatile and efficient, heat pumps offer heating and cooling for your home. As their name implies, they transfer heat as oppose to producing it, providing energy-efficient comfort and performance.
• Gas Furnaces
  Natural gas heating systems offer powerful heating, creating original heat through the combustion of gas. If natural gas is less expensive than electricity in your area, a gas furnace may be your most efficient and cost-effective heating option.
• Oil Furnaces
  Like gas furnaces, oil furnaces produce heat. However, these can take up more space and create more pollutants than gas heating options.

• Dual Fuel Furnace
  Dual fuel systems offer cooling and heating, combining the best of features of a heat pump and a gas furnace into one highly-efficient, multifunctional system.
• Electric Heating
  Like space heaters, electric furnaces use electricity to create heat through controlled resistance. However, they often cost more to operate than heat pumps and natural gas heating units.
• Boilers
  If your home currently has a boiler, replacing it with a high-efficiency condensing boiler is a wise investment. This new, extremely efficient technology adjusts based on outdoor conditions, offering Energy Star compliant performance and savings.
• Radiant Floor Heating
  If you’re tired of walking on chilly flooring and sitting on frigid furnishings, radiant floor heating may be just what you’ve been looking floor. These systems distribute heat more evenly throughout your home, using convection to warm the air and all surrounding surfaces. Clean and noiseless, they offer efficient warmth and excellent long-term savings.

Time for an upgrade? Learn more about our 100% no lemon, money-back guarantee, and amazing warranties on industry-leading HVAC equipment. Contact H & H Heating & Air Conditioning for a trustworthy, competitive quote today.

This blog was originally posted on https://www.delcohvac.com/hvac-contractors-guide-for-your-new-heating-system-this-new-year/

Unico Small Duct Systems Provide Efficient Cooling in Tight Spaces

Unico small duct high-velocity systems are a fantastic solution for cooling homes with little space for the addition of ductwork. They work well in many settings, from historic homes to apartments, condos, and tiny houses, operating much like a conventional heating and cooling units, yet providing more significant benefits.

How is a Unico Small Duct, High-Velocity AC System Different?

Unico small duct high-velocity (SDHV) systems are smaller, about one-third the size of conventional systems, allowing them to fit where other systems cannot. Rather than using large ductwork, they instead incorporate small, flexible tubing, which is easily fitted into existing wall cavities, above ceilings, or beneath floors, taking up minimal space.

SDHV systems also feature a small but mighty modular air handler that takes up minimal space in closets, attics, and crawlspaces. This makes them much easier to install in tight residences that don’t have the room to accommodate the large ductwork of conventional systems.

How Does The Performance Of An SDHV System Compare?

Despite their small size, SDHV systems deliver the same level of cooling as conventional systems three-times the size, offering several performance advantages:

• More efficient operation.
  Conventional, ducted systems suffer performance inefficiencies of 20-30% due to heat loss through leaks and poorly connected, uninsulated ducts. Like ductless systems, SDHV systems are much more efficient, with less surface area for energy loss and tight, insulated design. Professionally installed, they experience 0% air leakage.
• Even temperatures and draft-free airflow.
  Unlike conventional systems, which create drafts and uneven temperatures when distributing air, small duct systems provide draft-free, even temperatures. Using a principle called aspiration, they produce a light suction, which draws room air into the stream of conditioned, cooled air. This delivers draft-free cooling floor to ceiling, through all levels of your home, with no greater than a two-degree temperature difference throughout, ensuring comfort.
• Quiet operation.
  Designed for quiet operation and efficient performance, Unico supply tubing features a nylon inner core, with added insulation to absorb sound. Unico air handlers also feature closed-cell, sound-deadening insulation to isolate noise and vibration. During operation, SDHV systems are whisper quiet and nearly undetectable.
• Superior humidity control.
  Unico SDHV systems remove up to 30% more humidity from the room than conventional HVAC systems, allowing you to adjust your thermostat to save energy, yet enjoy the same level of comfort.

What Is The Cost Of A Unico Small Duct System?

Air conditioning companies can install Unico systems for about the same cost as conventional systems. Because system tubing and the modular air handler can be discreetly added to any home without the need for expensive soffit additions or extensive remodeling, build-out costs for incorporating SDHV system technology are little to nonexistent. Like conventional systems, they are specially designed and sized for each home.

Is a Unico small duct system for you? Get a competitive quote on an SDHV system from the HVAC installation service pros at H & H Heating & Air Conditioning today.

This blog was originally posted on https://www.delcohvac.com/unico-small-duct-systems-provide-efficient-cooling-in-tight-spaces/