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Oil-to-Gas Conversion in Washington, DC
Want to make an oil-to-gas conversion in your Washington, DC home? How about install a zoned boiler system? Talk to the Hensons! They recently called Michael Bonsby Heating & Air Conditioning wanting to get their home off oil and install a zoned boiler heating system.
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Mitsubishi Heat Pump Installation in Silver Spring, Maryland
Have you been thinking about installing a Mitsubishi ductless heat pump in your home? Talk to Don and Mabel! They just installed a brand new split system heat pump in their Silver Spring, Maryland home. So how do they feel about it?
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How to Improve Indoor Air Quality During the Winter
The easiest way to improve the indoor air quality in your home is to throw open the windows for some breezy cross ventilation. Unfortunately, this isn’t so easy to do in the winter! Indoor air quality is notoriously bad in the MD-DC area, and it’s 10 times worse when it gets cold out! While modern homes are being constructed with special care taken to improve ventilation as well as efficiency, many homes built within the last 20 years were built as tightly as possible to maximize furnace efficiency. The result? Homes with dirty, pollutant-filled air, locked in for months at a time.
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How Often Should You Change Your Furnace Filters?
It’s that time of year again – the time to flip your furnace on to prepare for the long winter ahead. Like summer, winter is a time when your HVAC system is going to be moving large amounts of air through your ducts and into your home. Compound this with the amount of time you’re going to be spending inside your home over the next few months and you’ve got a perfect recipe for painfully (and potentially dangerously) bad indoor air quality!
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Time to Switch Your Heat Pumps to Heat Mode!
Can you believe November is already almost over? By now you’ve probably had a heat pump inspection and you’re getting ready to turn your heat pump on (if you haven’t already!). In the winter, heat pumps operate basically like reverse air conditioners, pulling heat from the outside air and moving it into your home. This allows heat pumps to run much more efficiently than furnaces and other fuel burning heat pumps, provided you use them properly!
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Furnace & Heater Safety Tips
We’ve been lucky this fall – the weather’s been pretty mild for the past couple weeks. But whether we’re ready for it or not, winter is coming and thousands of families throughout the Maryland and Washington, DC area will be firing up their furnaces or heating systems. And while furnaces are crucial this time of year, they are also the number one cause of home fires during the winter. So if you’re planning on turning on your furnace over the next couple of weeks, make sure you read these furnace safety tips first!
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Healthy Home System
If you’ve been paying attention to our blog over the past couple months, you know the EPA estimates indoor air quality (IAQ) in most homes is five to ten times worse than outdoor air quality – and in some cases is over 100 times worse! The problem is as homes get tighter together and more efficient, they also lose considerable amounts of breathability and ventilation, meaning viruses, bacteria and other airborne contaminants multiply within your home and can’t escape. Recent advancements in home efficiency have inadvertently made the problem worse. As a result? Incidents of asthma have increased by 61% since 1982!
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It’s not too late to cash in on the 2011 tax credits!
If you’re thinking of upgrading any part of your home’s HVAC system to be more efficient, you’d better do so fast! There’s still time to cash in on the 2011 energy tax credits, so get them while you can!
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Green HVAC Design from Michael Bonsby Heating & Air Conditioning!
This is a really exciting time for us at Michael Bonsby Heating & Air Conditioning – we’re working with Southern Exposure Homes on the first passive house in Arlington! A Passive House is a house designed to be almost 100% energy efficient. They are very well insulated, almost completely airtight and primarily heated via passive solar gain and internal gains from people, electrical equipment, etc. This minimizes energy losses and helps cut heating costs by an astonishing 90% while maintaining extremely high indoor air quality (remember that most tight homes tend to have poor IAQ – the Passive House doesn’t!).
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