AmBient Heating and Cooling does HVAC maintenance near me in Alpharetta, Braselton, Buford, Cumming, and Dawsonville. The company makes sure that homes are comfortable all year, saves energy, and pays less for their utility bills.
Now I feel like a proper home owner; we had to pay for a heating service at short notice as after a power on and off our boiler didn't come back. The solution was to replace its control board, so /something/ on here is broken. Technician reckoned a relay was the culprit. Don't think I have the energy to try and figure it out, but probably a cheap part that's not too hard to replace. Annoying when it's quicker to just replace the whole thing.
People who know #HVAC: is this level of dust on a blower wheel something I should be concerned about, and does it need anything more than blowing some compressed air and then vacuuming?
Big tax credits for these in Biden's big climate action law, the Inflation Reduction Act and more rolling out. Plus 25 states have their own incentives, so check yours.
No gas leaks, no oil deliveries, and
"magically efficient" - uses just a third or a quarter of the energy
Imagine what that does for your bills - and greenhouse gas emissions 🌳
Remember all that awful wildfire smoke? And how it was so bad that you could smell it indoors? Well, the wildfires are coming back. And we need changes to how indoor air is regulated so that we can protect our most vulnerable people from it.
The Ontario Society of Professional Engineers is looking to get the word out about the Clean Indoor Air Act. Click on the link to learn more and reach out to your MPP.
Huh, looks like I should be air sealing my heating/air conditioning return while it's open. Maybe I'll add that to the list.... Mine looks like the first photo. (Edit: looks like this is far more complex than I thought, because you have to make sure you are getting enough air back into your system... right now, it's relying on sucking air through the unvented spaces in the walls and outside 🤨 ) https://basc.pnnl.gov/resource-guides/air-handler-closet-retrofit#edit-group-training#HVAC
Residential #HVAC engineering question: Is it typical for a household HVAC system in a hot, humid climate (Florida) to be "closed" in the thermodynamic/ volumetric sense? As in, no air exchange with the outside, air is simple recirculated, cooled, heated, and de-humidified as necessary? That is how my household's current system has been described to me, and my CO2 readings corroborate that. But that seems like a major indoor air quality #IAQ hazard.
I wrote about a #problem with a #furnace in my #house. It was an #adventure, but the short version is my #HVAC contractor said it would be a $1500 #repair, as they would need to #replace the control board. I'd replaced a burnt relay, but it hadn't fixed the problem.
Well, after fiddling and prodding, I fixed it, and it #works perfectly.
#HVAC peeps, thoughts? The contractor I chose (top local, highly regarded) did not tell me about the $1K CA rebate on #HeatPump conversions. (Unlike US tax credit, the CA $$ goes to contractor, not property owner. Ahem.) After receiving their estimate, I asked for the CA $$ and they said "Oh, we thought that was out of funds. We'll ck. By golly you're right & we will take that off yr bill." Work starts Wed. Now I wonder if they're honest. @ai6yr@cremevax@PaulWermer@ev_rider_j@Atlantis
As a Mechanical Engineer, it is surprisingly satisfying to design a ventilation system that doesn't need any ventilation equipment.
This is part of a natural ventilation system, with weatherproof security louvres backed with automatic Fire and Smoke Dampers.
The louvres allow outside air to come in during the summer to keep the space cool. During the winter the fire dampers are closed to stop too much cold air coming in and causing a condensation problem.
If the fire alarm goes off, the fire dampers automatically shut to stop fire escaping from the building.
Finally signed our #HVAC contract for a #heatpump! After changing our plans multiple times, we ended up with a way more reasonable price, with 5 heads total on 3 floors. Work will probably start this week? Excited!
Studying home #HVAC -replacement options and #IRA incentive$ in #California. Does anyone truly current (swidt) on #CAenergy initiatives think #HOMES and #HEEHRA rebates on #energyefficiency residential upgrades won't be available in 2024? (I am aware of – thx Mastodonians – the up to $2,000 federal tax credits already available for qualified heat pumps.) Boosts appreciated.
Had another 1h30 meeting with our #HVAC people to make sure we had the right plan to be comfortable everywhere in the house, and run everything through (oh retrofits...).
Final plan will be six heads (down from seven) - two upstairs, three on the main floor and one in the basement - with the proper boxes so we can add an additional one upstairs if it's not enough.
We could go with less if we had a more open concept, but old houses were not big on open spaces 😅
@homeassistant Happy Anniversary! So glad to see you in Fedi. ❤️🎆🎉
Have been looking forward to (more than) a bit of free time to hook up our various #IAQ#HVAC sensors to #HomeAssistant. So much potential for safer homes.
It makes some sense to me why medical facilities are hesitant to upgrade indoor air quality - though the direct costs of upgrade are quite low, acknowledgment of the problem could lead to spiraling costs, and even liability. This is obviously not OK, but it makes sense.
Could someone explain to me why health insurers, who are presumably way LESS ambivalent about the health costs side of the equation, are not pressuring facilities to improve and reduce the insane levels of nosocomial infection we have due to foot-dragging?
This is actually a serious question - there has to be a reason, or we would already be hearing of this approach for IAQ advocates, etc., right?
HVAC Hacks: Unexpected Ways To Maximize Energy Efficiency (hvacprofessionalsblog.blogspot.com)
AmBient Heating and Cooling does HVAC maintenance near me in Alpharetta, Braselton, Buford, Cumming, and Dawsonville. The company makes sure that homes are comfortable all year, saves energy, and pays less for their utility bills.