Purl's Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning Blog: Posts Tagged ‘Fresno’

Why We Recommend Dryer Vent Cleaning

Monday, December 16th, 2019

purl-s-hvac-service-and-repair-purls-madera-dryer-ventYou probably don’t often think of your clothing dryer as a source of potential danger in your house. Unfortunately, fires due to clothes dryers are among the leading causes of residential fires. According to the National Fire Protection Association, nearly 17,000 dryer fires occur each year, leading to 51 deaths, 380 injuries, and a reported $236 million in property loss.

What causes these fires? Why would something as seemingly innocent as the clothes dryer turn into a major fire hazard?

The answer: clogged dryer vents.

Fortunately, there’s a basic solution to this problem, which is to call us to schedule dryer vent cleaning.

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Not Too Late for Heating Maintenance With Our USA Club

Monday, December 2nd, 2019

cold-sweater-manIt’s amazing that December has already arrived and the year 2019 is almost over. We know you’re probably ferociously busy with your seasonal plans and preparations for the new year. But we want to make sure you’ve gotten your annual heating maintenance already taken care of. It’s something we recommend all our clients schedule for their heating systems during the fall.

If you’ve already had our technicians perform heating maintenance in Fresno, CA for your house, great. If you haven’t, you don’t need to panic that it’s too late. It’s not too late—and it’s still technically fall! It’s always better to have heating maintenance done every year, no matter how late into the season, rather than skip it. The consequences of missing maintenance can be steep:

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Benefits of UV Light Installation

Monday, November 18th, 2019

UV-air-purifier-lightWinter is a time of low temperatures, but also a time filled with joy and celebrations. Unfortunately, something that comes along with the cold temperatures and more people gathering in homes is the rapid spread of illnesses. Yes, it’s cold and flu season once more.

Aside from medical precautions against getting sick this winter, you have other methods to make your house a healthier one. We recommend a basic indoor air quality improvement that can make a big difference for household health—installing a UV light to your HVAC system. These UV air purifiers provide multiple benefits to your home.

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Cold Weather Ahead! Sign Up for Our Ultimate Service Agreement

Monday, October 21st, 2019

Furnace-standardOne of the most important jobs we do as an HVAC company in Fresno, CA is help customers prepare for extreme weather. In the fall, we inspect and tune-up residential furnaces and other heating systems so they’re ready for the arrival of winter weather. Although we’re always glad to help customers when they have faulty heating systems, we’re even more glad to help them avoid those problems and hassles in the first place. Nobody wants their cozy indoor comfort interrupted during a chilly winter day, after all.

If you’re not currently signed up for our Ultimate Service Agreement, now is the right time to join. This agreement provides you with two annual maintenance tune-ups and inspections for your home—and we’ll start with the one for your heating system.

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Sign Up for Our Ultimate Service Agreement for Heating Maintenance

Monday, October 7th, 2019

USA LogoThe cold weather will be here before you know it. Or before you can prepare for it. We don’t want you to get caught with a non-working furnace or a heating repair in Fresno, CA during the first cold days of the season. We also don’t want you to pay too much to run your heater or end up stuck with an expensive replacement bill when the heater fails years too soon.

Thankfully, we have a plan to help you avoid these problems. It’s our HVAC maintenance plan, the Ultimate Service Agreement. When you sign up for this agreement, you’ll have both your heater and your air conditioner covered for inspections and tune-ups each year.

(If you’ve already signed up for the Ultimate Service Agreement, then we’ll soon be touch with you to arrange for fall maintenance. That’s one of the perks of the program: we call you so you won’t forget.)

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Sign Up for Our Ultimate Service Agreement for Heating Maintenance

Monday, October 7th, 2019

USA-LogoThe cold weather will be here before you know it. Or before you can prepare for it. We don’t want you to get caught with a non-working furnace or a heating repair in Fresno, CA during the first cold days of the season. We also don’t want you to pay too much to run your heater or end up stuck with an expensive replacement bill when the heater fails years too soon.

Thankfully, we have a plan to help you avoid these problems. It’s our HVAC maintenance plan, the Ultimate Service Agreement. When you sign up for this agreement, you’ll have both your heater and your air conditioner covered for inspections and tune-ups each year.

(If you’ve already signed up for the Ultimate Service Agreement, then we’ll soon be touch with you to arrange for fall maintenance. That’s one of the perks of the program: we call you so you won’t forget.)

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Don’t Push Your AC Over Its Limits!

Thursday, October 3rd, 2019

hand-setting-thermostatYou want to avoid HVAC repair in Fresno, CA as much as possible. Even though fall has now officially arrived, the Central Valley is still experiencing blistering hot days that can reach the 90s. Your home’s air conditioning system has hard work ahead, and if you aren’t cautious about running it, you may drive it into the ground and cause an expensive repair or replacement.

Your air conditioner has limits. For example, the AC can’t lower the temperature in your house to the point where water would freeze. (Not that you would want to.) To help you know how best to keep your cooling system running in good shape at the end of the season, we’re going to look at your central air conditioner’s cooling limits.

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Do You Need New Rain Gutters?

Thursday, September 19th, 2019

heavy-rainSummer is almost over. Fall is around the corner. The rainiest part of the year is right ahead.

Now is an excellent time to take a look at the rain gutters of your house and ask yourself if you need to have a new rain gutter installation in Fresno, CA. If you do, then the early fall is the ideal time to call us to arrange for the service. We offer custom continuous rain gutter design and have since we started in business more than 65 years ago. Our trucks are equipped so our experts can cut and size rain gutters to fit your house on the spot.

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Dirty Sock Syndrome: The Smelly AC Problem

Monday, August 26th, 2019

girl-pinches-noseOf all the troubles you might encounter with your air conditioning system, dirty sock syndrome is the one that triggers the most immediate reaction. It’s right there in the name—it sounds like something you absolutely don’t want in your house!

But what is dirty sock syndrome, and is it actually a significant air conditioning repair problem?

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Electrical Troubles in an Air Conditioning System

Monday, July 29th, 2019

electrical-panel-repairsAir conditioners are complicated electrical devices. The combination of an intricate electrical system and the use of chemical refrigerant makes it tricky for a non-professional to be able to diagnose what’s wrong with an air conditioner, let alone understand how to fix it.

Electrical issues are the most common type of malfunction that can bring an air conditioning system to a halt and cut off cooling to a house. Below we’ve listed the electrical malfunctions our technicians often see when they come to repair a customer’s faulty air conditioner.

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