With wet winter weather rolling into the Bay Area, homeowners are going to be spending a lot more time indoors. While relaxing at home and being cozy are both high priority for an enjoyable winter, making sure your home’s indoor air quality (IAQ) is safe and healthy should be first on the list. If your home’s air quality is lacking, you could be exposing your family to carbon monoxide. At Hassler, we’re here to help.
East Bay area homeowners are going to be spending a lot more time indoors in the coming months. At Hassler Heating, we want our customers to have a winter that’s cozy and warm, especially as the holidays approach. If you find yourself turning on your furnace and finding the filters are dirty or clogged, it’s time to take a closer look at the causes. Replacing furnace filters isn’t a big job, but it’s an avoidable nuisance that can end up affecting the efficiency of your unit. Here are some of the most common causes:
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There’s no getting around the fact that the weather here in Berkeley, Oakland and Albany areas has yet to take a turn towards the cold that winter can sometimes bring. Fall is certainly here, however, and temperatures are dropping slightly with each passing week. Now is the perfect time of year to have your home’s performance evaluated, and Hassler is here to help with our $100 off deal on a home energy assessment.
Living in Oakland, CA during the hottest stretch of the summer can be uncomfortable. Many homeowners turn straight to their ACs, which help to create conditioned air that keeps us cool on even the hottest days of the year. While plenty of Oakland residents focus on getting their air conditioning units in good working order, the importance of maintaining good indoor air quality.
Myths about home performance proliferate quickly in today’s fast-paced communities, and the East Bay area is no exception. You may have heard some of the following statements from friends, family or coworkers, or on social media. We want to clear things up and share the truth!
Myth #1: New homes are always energy efficient.
False.
Anyone who lives in Oakland, CA knows that the city can get more than just a little hot when the summer months hit. Since it’s more inland than San Francisco, Oakland usually enjoys hotter temperatures overall. Summers are dry and warm, while winters are mild and damp — a Mediterranean climate if there ever was one. For many residents, Oakland summers would be quite difficult to deal with if it wasn’t for central air conditioning.
If there’s one thing that just about every homeowner in Moraga, CA can agree upon, it’s that no one wants to spend more than they should on their monthly energy bill. Many go months or even years paying off inflated energy bills without even knowing about it. After all, symptoms of issues related to home performance aren’t always extremely noticeable, especially if you don’t know what to look for.
For Californians living in Concord, San Rafael and Oakland areas, there’s seldom been a more important time than now to be focusing on saving water. The drought is in full swing, and remedying the problem can only be done if every California resident is on board with limiting the amount of water they utilize each week. There are plenty of things that you can do to save water (we’ll get into that in a moment), but it’s important to also focus on saving energy. This is where tankless water heaters come in.
The warm weather of summer will soon be here, which means east bay area and Marin residents will be relying more and more each day on the functionality of their AC units. It’s no secret that an AC which gets a lot of usage can have a relatively strong impact on your energy bills, and if left to progress, costs can rise sharply.
