When your furnace or boiler comes on for the winter, or you switch your heat pump into heating mode, you can expect a rise utility bills. That’s the nature of the beast—but the beast doesn’t need to be as fierce or bite as hard as it does. You’re probably paying more for your winter heating in Marlton, NJ than necessary.
Getting a grip on those beastly bills isn’t as tough as it might seem. In some cases, you’ll need to upgrade older equipment. In others, some basic steps will help lower costs. Below is our advice for making the cost of winter heating cost less.
Any heating system installed in a home is supposed to keep up with cold weather, no matter how far the outdoor thermometer drops. That is the baseline expectation for this type of equipment, and professional installers look for units to match the heat requirements for a house and which can deal with the coldest days and nights.
When you’re looking around for a new heating option for your house before winter arrives, one of the key bits of information you’ll want to know about a heater is its energy efficiency. Residential heating systems have higher efficiency than ever before, and the standards for a heater to receive the ENERGY STAR label have increased.
The best time to have a new air conditioning system installed is during the lulls between the extreme weather seasons. In spring and fall, you need to rely on the AC, and it’s easier to schedule the service with professionals because they have fewer emergency heating and cooling calls. So if you’re considering replacing your home’s old central air conditioner, right now is an excellent time to call our technicians to schedule it.
How well does your AC do the job of cooling down your home? Even if your answer is, “It gets the job done,” it could probably do even better. There are ways to improve your air conditioning system’s performance over this summer as well as the summers afterwards. Below we’ve put together ideas for boosting cooling in your home, from basic tips to bigger solutions. 
When you look over the options for heating and cooling systems to have installed in your house, you’ll see something called a dual fuel system, a.k.a. a hybrid system. Part of it is self-explanatory: it uses two types of fuel. But what types of fuel? And what does it do with these fuels? And, most importantly, is it something that you need for your house?
It’s frustrating to have your furnace running during the winter, and yet still fell the nip of the cold around your home. If this a new experience—the furnace has always done the heating job you need before—then you may need 
It’s October, and maybe you’re having spooky thoughts about parts of your house during the evenings. If you have a gas furnace in the basement, you might be a bit startled at the sounds it makes as it comes on if you’re wandering in the depths of the house at night. But is that gas furnace an actual danger? Not just a noise in the night, but something that could turn into a combustion hazard or allow for the leak of toxic gases?
The question in the title is another way of asking if it’s time for you to have a new boiler installed in your house. For any residential heating system, the day will come—usually during the spring when it’s about to shut down—when the heater should be replaced by professionals.
