Your home is one of your biggest investments. It represents a real estate investment as well as a little something for your future. Managing retirement is considerably easier when you own your home and don’t have to pay rent, but too often major repairs leave homeowners struggling. The culprit? Lack of maintenance. Too many people […]
4 Ways Ventilation Matters in Keeping a Comfortable Home
Did you know heat rises? Or that homes are built so tightly now that the air has nowhere to go? Think about boiling water or taking a hot bath without the exhaust fan running. Where does all that hot air go? What about the moisture in the air? The truth is that it collects in […]
3 Steps for Better Home Ventilation
Natural ventilation — the type of airflow that happens because of the cracks and small openings in a home — used to be how people maintained indoor air quality. Today, many people, especially in the hot arid climates of Nevada and Arizona, rely on central air conditioning, continually circulating air through the system and leaving […]
3 Ways Controlling Moisture in Your Home Helps Control Temperature
Humidity may be low in the Southwest, but that doesn’t mean that moisture isn’t an issue. In fact, moisture can be a major issue even in very arid areas. In less humid climates like Arizona and Nevada, moisture in the home typically comes from the concrete pads the homes sit on. Usually, it is an […]
3 Steps to More Efficient Air Conditioning
Are you tired of paying high air conditioning costs? Do you want to find a way to cut how much you spend on cooling? Who doesn’t? Let’s face it, the Southwest is hot and the summers here border on brutal. Even in the mountains of Nevada and Arizona, temperatures can still go as high as […]
4 Ways to Reduce the Need for Air Conditioning
Even if you live in the mountains, summers are usually unbearably hot in the Southwest. Temperatures are normally well over 80 degrees in the mountains and the mercury goes even higher in the valleys, with temperatures often topping 100 degrees. Rather than rely on your air conditioner to do all the work (and pay the […]