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Heat Pumps 101: Answering 8 Common Questions about Heat Pumps

Buying a heat pump or cooling system for your home, it turns out, is not like buying shoes at the Army and Navy shoe sale. While there seems to be a large variety of options out there – heat pump, mini-split, air-source heat pump –, getting the right solution for your home is more like…
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Why Spring is Perfect for a Natural Gas Installation

With all the hoopla over heat pumps this winter, and your cooling options for summer, you’ve probably already turned your attention to the better weather.  I know that we have!  With the focus on electric heating for inside your home, you may have a natural gas service to your home and now also have less…
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How to Avoid a Plumbing Emergency

How will you know when your water heater bursts, your sewer backs up, or something has chewed through a pipe to cause a flood?  Most times, we find out by stepping off the last basement step into a pool of water.  By then the water has moved through your lowest level and started seeping into real property…
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Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Why is it that when faced with the expense of an annual safety check and furnace or boiler service that we’re so reluctant to spend that money?  Is it because we can’t see or measure the results?  Categorizing those few hundred dollars into ‘discretionary spending‘ rather than “necessity spending” may seem like a perfectly justifiable…
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Drain Cleaning

If you’re a homeowner, right now drain cleaning for your storm sewer is probably the furthest thing from your mind.  In fact, you’re probably really enjoying your garden right now.  Maybe you’ve spent a weekend raking out the winter and it’s looking pretty fresh.   Now take a moment to consider what’s going on beneath…
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Heat Pump Tips – Six things to know before you buy

Contact Us Heat pump, heat pump, heat pump!  “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!”  It’s the new star of the show, what everyone’s talking about… It seems like every municipality and government body is jumping on this band wagon and with grants and free stuff and with good reason.  There are many incentives and advantages to getting a…
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