September 19th, 2016
Furnaces are the most common type of heating system in homes. If you’re thinking of installing a new heater for your house this fall to prep for the winter, you’re most likely debating about getting a furnace.
But what type of furnace? The two major choices today are the gas furnace and the electric furnace. Putting these two heating types up against each other, which one wins?
September 12th, 2016
Last week, we encouraged readers to sign up for our Air Creations Comfort Plan to take care of their heating maintenance for the fall (and their air conditioning maintenance in spring). There are many reasons to invest in a plan like this: it keeps your heater energy efficient, extends its service life, and prevents numerous repair issues.
You may still have some questions about heating maintenance, and we’d like to address a few of the more common. If you have additional questions, call our offices and we’ll be glad to help you out.
September 5th, 2016
September doesn’t officially turn into fall until the 22nd. But as soon as Labor Day is over, the summer is essentially over as well and everyone starts to shift into autumn mode. It’s time to plan for colder weather, even though the colder weather hasn’t arrived yet.
August 29th, 2016
August 22nd, 2016
One of the aspects of air conditioning technology that often confuses homeowners is that ice isn’t a normal part of AC operation. It’s easy to understand why people unfamiliar with air conditioning systems might think that ice appearing on parts of the AC is not a serious problem. After all, the air conditioner sends out air that feels crisp and cold, as if it were blown over ice… why shouldn’t ice be expected?
The truth is that the appearance of ice—usually along the indoor evaporator coil—indicates something is wrong with the air conditioner. For reasons we’ll look at in the next section, the evaporator coil is staying colder than it should, which causes the moisture that condenses along it to freeze. This starts a vicious cycle, since ice on the coil makes it harder for the refrigerant inside it to absorb heat and raise its temperature, and this leads to even more ice. A fully iced-over coil means an AC that provides no cooling at all.
Don’t scrape the ice off to try to fix this! Not only do you risk damaging the coil, but you won’t address the actual root problem. Instead, give our technicians a call for repairs.
Contact Air Creations, Inc. in Westfield, NJ for your air conditioning repairs. “We Do It Right!”
August 15th, 2016
Try to imagine if your house’s lighting worked this way: you come home at night, step into the house, flip on a light switch… and every light in the house comes on. That’s not an efficient way of lighting a home, is it? Of course, that’s not how lighting is set up for houses—or any building. But central air conditioning and heating is often set up exactly this way! You switch on your furnace, air conditioner, or heat pump, and conditioned air travels to all the vents throughout the house, regardless of whether the individual rooms need to be cooled or heated.
August 8th, 2016
No heating and cooling system will last forever. If your current heater and AC are more than 15 years old, or if you’ve needed to schedule repairs for them a couple time a year, then you should start to consider options for having them replaced. This coming fall is a good time to arrange for a replacement, since it takes advantage of a lull between the hot and cool weather.
August 1st, 2016
Poor indoor air quality is unfortunately a common occurrence today. The problem is that homes have such strong insulation on them to keep their HVAC systems energy efficient that many pollutants remain trapped indoors without fresh air to sweep them away.
July 25th, 2016
This is a confusion people often have regarding their air conditioning systems. They think that because the AC sends out air that feels like it was blown over ice, ice must be a normal product of how the system operates. This does make some sense—until you understand that an air conditioner works through a process of heat exchange, meaning that it uses refrigerant (a special blend of chemicals) to remove heat from indoors and release it outdoors. Not only does this process not use ice, but it also shouldn’t create any ice.
In other words, if you see ice on your air conditioner, something is wrong.
July 18th, 2016
When an air conditioning system starts to run into problems delivering cool conditions in a home—or it stops working entirely—calling for repairs is the normal step to take. But sometimes repairs are not the most effective route; there will come a time when it’s better to replace the AC entirely rather than to keep doing fix after fix.
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