Indianapolis Heating and Cooling Blog
HVAC Acronyms and Other Topics With Girls Pint Out
Last week, I had the privilege to host an event at Laurel Hall for a fun and engaging group of women in the organization Girls Pint Out. If you’re unfamiliar, it is a national craft beer organization for women, whose mission is to build a community of women who love craft beer and who are an...
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The Best Thermostat Replacement for Your Home
Read on to find out more about the best thermostat replacement in your home. Smart thermostats app activation up to 4,500/day $100 rebate available from some Indianapolis area utilities Thermostats can alert phone when issues arise with heating/cooling system There’s been a lot of buzz the last few years about smart thermostats. So, what is...
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Indianapolis HVAC FAQ: Horizontal Furnace or Horizontal Air Conditioner
What is an Horizontal Furnace or Horizontal Air Conditioner? The term horizontal flow is used to describe the airflow of a given furnace or air handler. The term is only used to describe the airflow of the indoor system. In a horizontal flow furnace application, the air conditioner evaporator coil rest next to the furnace or air handler. In...
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Indianapolis HVAC FAQ: Downflow Furnace or Downflow Air Conditioner
What is an Downflow Furnace or Downflow Air Conditioner? The term downflow is used to describe the airflow of a given furnace or air handler. The term is only used to describe the airflow of the indoor system. In a downflow furnace application, the air conditioner evaporator coil will sit below the furnace. In most applications, the furnace air...
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Indianapolis HVAC FAQ: Upflow Furnace or Upflow Air Conditioner
What is an Upflow Furnace or Upflow Air Conditioner? The term upflow is used to describe the airflow of a given furnace or air handler. The term is only used to describe the airflow of the indoor system. In an upflow furnace application, the air conditioner evaporator coil will sit above the furnace. In most...
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Overcome Fear as a Homeowner
Fear is a topic you probably don’t expect to hear about from your heating and cooling guy. And not to worry, our technicians aren’t walking into your home to give a treatise on Soren Kierkegaard. I’m talking about it though, because at their core many homeowners reach out to us with an underlying state of...
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Air Duct Cleaning Services and Indoor Air Quality and Health
We get questioned periodically about air duct cleaning services and indoor air quality – does it work? Is it a scam? How much should it cost? Good questions, all. Air duct cleaning services, like other HVAC services, has unfortunately had it’s share of scammers and expose’s about those scams. All of those bad actors...
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Why A Process Matters When Replacing Furnace
Read on for some personal thoughts on why a process matters when replacing a furnace. My Industry Creates This Problem Every day we get calls from home owners asking how expensive it is to replace their furnace. Every day I attempt to explain to them that it’s not quite that simple. As a consumer it...
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Radiant Floor Heating Systems – Options, Pricing and Process for your Home
It’s early on a freezing cold morning, you climb out of bed, and make your way to the bathroom. As you confidently step on to the tile floor of the bathroom, you barely remember last winter, hopping from rug to rug to avoid the cold tile. No doubt, radiant floor heating systems can make your life...
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My Heat Pump Is Smoking, What Do I Do?
Updated December 2023 With heat pump efficiency increases, large rebates from the government, and more customers wanting quiet outdoor systems, Homesense is having more calls for new heat pump installations. We are getting more questions from home owners who’ve never dealt with one before. We’ve discussed a few questions already this fall about these systems...
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