Blog: Heating

Do you close air vents in unused rooms to lower utility bills? Well—surprise—doing so may actually raise your utility bills—and make you less comfortable at home.

Here’s a common issue we hear from homeowners with furnaces: “Why does my gas furnace turn on with a loud BANG?” There are two possible causes of the noise.

You should only use "Emergency Heat" when your heat pump isn’t working properly. To know why, you need to understand what the Emergency Heat setting does. And to do that, you need to know how a heat pump works—especially in freezing weather.

It’s a tough call. Do you give your current furnace a few more years or do you give it the Old Yeller treatment and upgrade to a new one?

When it comes to cold weather, we depend on furnaces, heat pumps, and fireplaces to battle against the frigid Minnesota weather. But maybe you’ve heard rumors that a ceiling fan can also help keep you warm.

As cooler temperature make their way to the Twin Cities, families are beginning to fire up their furnaces. And the last thing you want is a broken down furnace, right?

Well a question I’m often asked is when is the best time of year to replace this equipment so I can get the best deal?

As I write this we are beginning the recovery of another frozen house.  This is what we call a house that has lost heat and has frozen and broken water pipes and hot water heat lines.  This has been a record year for calls regarding homes that have lost heat which has resulted in frozen pipes breaking and causing damage in the home.

If you live in a home in Minnesota and it is a split level home, you have probably experienced the difference in the temperature from floor to floor of your home.  It almost feels like you are heating the upstairs and air conditioning between the lower levels due to the temperature differences.  While this can happen with traditional multilevel homes, it is more common with split level homes due to the open area of the stairwell.