Using a standard air conditioning system isn’t the only way to provide comfort for your house during hot weather. If you are interested in finding an alternative residential cooling system for that will help you rely far less on the AC, then you should consider putting in a whole house fan. What these installations do is draw warm air up through your house, which then pulls in cooler air from the outside so you receive natural cross breezes through open windows. Right now, we are offering a spring special: 10% off the installation of a new whole-house fan. We recommend and install the QuietCool model.
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Special on Whole House Fan Installation—And Why This Is a Good Idea
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016Have You Singed Up for Our Maintenance Program Yet?
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016March is an unusual month when it comes to heating and cooling a home, especially in a place like Northern California, where temperatures often swing back and forth between warm days and cold rainy days. This is probably the ideal time of the year to think about making changes to your HVAC system, such as putting in a new air conditioner or heater. It’s also the time to arrange for the annual maintenance service that will see that your air conditioning system is prepared for the coming summer.
Air Conditioning Upgrades and Replacements to Consider
Monday, March 21st, 2016Last week we looked into making the decision to replace or upgrade your air conditioning system during the spring. If you think that now is a good time to put in a new AC or add upgrades to your current one, we’ve put together some suggestions to consider. Call our technicians to schedule an appointment, and we’ll help you receive the finest air conditioning performance for the coming spring and summer weather.
Some Heating Issues to Watch for at the End of Winter
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Receives the Carrier President’s Award
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016We’re thrilled to announce that we are recipients of the 2016 President’s Award from Carrier Corp. The award will be presented at a ceremony in the middle of March.
Carrier Authorized Factory Dealer
Finding an HVAC Contractor: Certification, Licensing, and On-Going Training
Monday, January 4th, 2016Duct Sealing and Winter Warmth in Your Home
Monday, December 7th, 2015Preparations for winter are now underway, and we’ve offered some advice on how you can help keep warm in your home this coming season while also saving money. (Remember, if you haven’t scheduled a regular maintenance tune-up and inspection for your heating system, now is definitely the time to do it!)
Today we’d like to focus on a part of your home that can lose heat that you may not have considered: the ductwork of the ventilation system.
Is It Time to Have a New Furnace Installed?
Monday, October 19th, 2015It’s October, and although we’re still experiencing warmer weather (mixed with rain), the cooling-off period is not far away. Before we know it, winter will arrive and settle in for its regular stay. Now is a good time to consider making any necessary major changes to the heating system that serves your home. You don’t want to try to arrange for the installation of a new furnace during the coldest period of winter, after all!
If you have a furnace in your home that has served for more than 15 or 20 years, it may be time to retire it and have a new furnace installed. The job isn’t as difficult as you imagine, especially when you call on experienced HVAC professionals like the ones at Purl’s Sheet Metal.
Some questions to ask about your current furnace
To help you think about whether your furnace is ready for replacement, ask yourself a few of these questions:
- How old is the furnace? Check when the furnace was installed. Most gas furnaces have a life expectancy between 15 and 20 years, and electric furnaces a bit longer than this. If you have a system that is over 20 years old, then it’s probably time to have it replaced—even if it shows no outward signs of failing or performance issues. It’s better to get ahead of the problem. And with 20 years of service, the furnace has already returned your original investment in it a few times over.
- Have winter energy bills been rising? Take a look over your energy bills for the past few winters and see if there is a pattern of increasing costs. If you cannot account for a noticeable rise because of greater use of the system, then the issue is probably a furnace that is declining. If the furnace has received regular maintenance and still shows this loss of efficiency, then it is too old to continue to work effectively.
- How often does the furnace need repair work? A furnace should need few repairs during its first few years of service (provided it has routine inspections and tune-ups). After that, it might need a repair every few years. When it needs repairs once or twice a year, or if the repair total to keep it running annually exceeds $500, then you are spending too much on fixing it and should instead put the money toward a replacement.
Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning offers heating replacement in Fresno, CA and throughout the Central Valley.
Is It Time to Schedule Dryer Vent Cleaning
Monday, August 31st, 2015We’ve previously written about the reasons dryer vent cleaning is an important job to schedule for your home. Here, near the end of the summer season, we’d like to provide a friendly reminder about taking care of a task that so often slips people’s minds.
Godzilla (El Niño) May Be Coming! Time to Install Rain Gutters for Your Home
Monday, August 24th, 2015You may have heard news about the possible upcoming El Niño event, one so enormous that NASA climatologist Bill Patzert dubbed it “the Godzilla El Niño”: a destructive force that rises from the sea and smashes onto shore. This could be the largest El Niño since record-keeping started in 1950, far more powerful than the 1997–98 one responsible for extensive flooding and mudslides in California.