Categories: Indoor Air Quality
You may think that you and your family are probably just the cleanest bunch of people there ever could be. You clean, you disinfect you sanitize and yet your family still gets sick. One thing you probably didn’t think about was the quality of the air that you are breathing in your house. How many different [...]
Categories: blog, Heating, Heating FAQ's, Winter
Many of us out there love being warm and cozy especially in the winter time. But many of us just may run to crank up the thermostat when the weather starts get a bit frigid and chilly. But we are here to tell you that isn’t the only solution to your cold weather problems. There are plenty [...]
Credit As Christmas time draws near, the desire to be choosen as a good boy or girl is at the front of every child’s mind. Every choice made by a youngster is played out perfectly to ensure they will be receiving presents on Christmas Eve from good ole St. Nick. However, no matter the good behavior [...]
Categories: blog
It was always a concern of passengers that flying on an airplane can make you ill because being held up in a small space for a long period of time can increase your chance of catching an infection. There are so many viral infections that can be spread by air and pollutants from the engine [...]
Categories: History
It’s incredible the everyday miracles we take for granted, for example, ice. The chemical properties of water are unlike that of almost every other liquid on the planet. Water is the only substance that exists naturally in all three states: solid, liquid, and gas. It is the only liquid that expands when frozen, making it [...]
Categories: Heating
For years wood was the main source of heat in America’s homes. Beginning in 1885, the nation started burning more coal than wood. Before 1885 the majority of homes used brick fireplaces and derivatives of the cast iron Franklin Stove (invented in 1742) to burn their wood and biomass. Credit Towards the end of the [...]
Categories: Fun, Uncategorized
In 1998, California first discovered “zombie bees” and today, they’ve been found flying around Kent, Washington. These “zombie bees” are due to a parasite that affects the bees and causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they just die. Credit In 2008 at San Francisco State University, biologist John Hafernik discovered [...]
Categories: blog
We’ve all heard them. Everyone has an idea of what to do to conserve energy, but is there any fact to these popular pieces of advice? We here at AAA decided to take a look at some of the most common of home energy tips and figure out if they actually hold up. #1. Closing [...]
Categories: Heating
With the cooler weather comes time to turn on your furnace. However, before you start warming your house there are a few things you should do to ready your furnace for the long winter months. It’s important to prepare your furnace before it gets too cold, especially to avoid the panic of having a dysfunctional [...]
Categories: Indoor Air Quality
An air conditioning unit is a large investment, so it’s only natural you want to keep up the proper maintenance to get the best life out of your system that you can. Think of your air conditioning unit like your car, a car needs a regular oil change and tune ups to work every day- [...]
