Smarter Air, Delivered
The window unit in the back bedroom has been running since breakfast. It is four in the afternoon in late July and the room still reads seventy-nine. Somebody has started pointing a fan at the bed. We know that room. We ran the running-cost math ourselves, because the number that decides this purchase is one … Read more
Winter is when a neglected air filter costs you the most. Cold air is already harder on your HVAC system than most homeowners realize, and a clogged filter forces that system to work overtime just to keep your home warm and your air clean. Our technicians service HVAC systems in two winters that barely resemble … Read more
We have stood in a Capitol Hill living room on a July afternoon and watched the indoor monitor read worse than the curb outside, windows wide open the whole time. That is the part the live map on this page will not tell you. The reading you came to check is here, current and broken … Read more
Walk into a Florida room at 2 p.m. in July, and the thermometer settles the argument. We have clocked these glass-walled rooms at 88, 91, even 95 degrees while the home’s central air, two rooms away, runs without a break and still loses ground. A room that the owner paid good money to add sits … Read more
Two summers back, we pulled an 18-year-old 10 SEER central AC out of a Modesto bungalow and put a single-zone ductless head in its place. The homeowner’s August bill dropped from $312 to $147. That $165 gap, month after summer month, is what every mini split buyer is really asking about. Mini splits sit at … Read more
$14,800 was the first quote a Visalia homeowner showed us last spring. We ran her load calculation, walked her ductwork, and priced the same job at $9,400 with equipment sized to her actual square footage. The $5,400 gap was the real story, and most homeowners never get to see it. National pricing data says heat … Read more
A 12,000 BTU mini split at 230V covers 450 to 600 square feet, runs on the circuit already in most residential panels, and needs no ductwork. That combination explains why contractors write it into specs so consistently. It’s not the most technically sophisticated system in the category. It fits the jobs that come up most … Read more
Last Tuesday a homeowner in Madera held a 20x25x5.25 MERV 13 air filter up to his phone camera and asked me if he was about to break his air conditioner. His Day and Night air handler went in during the 2011 remodel. The filter had been sitting in his garage for three days while he … Read more
The air filter in your HVAC system is the one virus defense most homeowners can directly control. Not a portable purifier sitting in the corner of one room. Not a ventilation upgrade that requires a contractor. The filter inside your system, swapped out in ten minutes, processing every cubic foot of recirculated air in your … Read more
Heat pumps confuse homeowners before the installation crew packs up. After fifteen years of service calls across California’s Central Valley and Florida, I’ve watched homeowners run on expensive electric resistance backup all winter because no one explained how the system works. This page does what most contractors don’t. My name is Kerrie Dean Tarampi. I’m … Read more