This issue happens more often than not with older furnaces, and it could be a sign you are ready to upgrade your Dover home’s heating and cooling system with a new model. At the 10-year mark, furnaces start to lose efficiency and begin breaking down more frequently.
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Our team at Messina Plumbing, Electric & HVAC could help you save big bucks on your monthly utility bill by performing a furnace replacement.
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Living in Deleware means getting used to living with hard water—or does it?
Water softeners help reduce water hardness by removing nuisance minerals. While they are generally reliable, they can sometimes develop issues that affect their performance.
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Maintenance increases your equipment’s efficiency. It also gives one of our Messina Plumbing, Electric & HVAC specialists a chance to find and correct minor issues. Doing so protects you from unexpected repair costs in the future.
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These days, when our hot water goes out on us, it is more than an inconvenience. Our lifestyles depend on hot water in our daily routines. In fact, we are so dependent upon it, water heating ranks second to only space heating for highest energy consumption in the United States.
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Your air conditioner (AC) can do several things––keep your Deleware home’s indoor air cooler than outdoor temperatures, help to keep indoor airborne allergens at bay, and help keep your home’s humidity low. But one thing it can’t do is kill mold.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as many as 60 million Americans have allergic rhinitis part-time or year-round.
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Today’s air conditioner (AC) is based on a prototype invented in 1902 by Willis Carrier, an engineer from Buffalo, New York. Unlike earlier forms of cooling, Carrier’s model controlled the temperature by removing heat and humidity from the air. Below are some air conditioning basics.
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It’s a hot day outdoors, and you are inside your Lewes home waiting for your air conditioning (AC) system to kick into full gear. But instead of cool air coming out of your vents, all you feel is hot air! Why is my AC blowing hot air?
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) says air conditioning can account for 35 to 40 percent of your utility bill here in Delaware. At Messina Plumbing, Electric & HVAC, we take energy efficiency seriously.
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