Central air conditioning has a lot to recommend it. It’s relatively cheap, easy to use, and can cover quite a lot of ground with a moderately sized system. For all its advantages, though, central air conditioning does have a couple of drawbacks. For one thing, it often relies on a single thermostat to control it. This limits its accuracy to the readings to a single area of the house, which means that other areas might get too much or too little cooling. Second, it can only cool all of the house—or none of it. There is no way for the system to modulate its output to only serve different parts of the house. Fortunately, there’s a solution to both of these problems in the form of zone control. Read on to find out more about zone control, and how it can improve your air conditioner efficiency.
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How Zone Control Can Improve Your Air Conditioner Efficiency
Monday, May 25th, 2015When Is It Time to Replace Your Air Conditioning System?
Monday, April 20th, 2015In an ideal world, an air conditioner would last forever and you’d never have to worry about it after installation. Unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in. Timely repairs and regular maintenance can extend the life of an air conditioner, but sooner or later it will fail permanently. You probably don’t want to wait until that happens, which means you need to keep an eye out for the signs that your air conditioner is dying. Read on for an explanation of some of the more obvious signs that it’s time to replace your air conditioning system.
How Does a Heat Pump Heat?
Friday, February 27th, 2015Heat pumps are rising in popularity as people come to realize the extent of the benefits they provide. Their construction and method of operation allows them to provide a heat output equal to that of more traditional furnace and boiler systems, but with only a fraction of the cost. They’re both energy efficient and safe. How do heat pumps actually accomplish this feat? Read on to learn about the inner workings of heat pumps, and how they can provide such substantial advantages.
Heat Pump Anatomy
A heat pump is actually very similar to an air conditioner in terms of construction. There are two units, one installed inside the house and one outside. These units are connected by a conduit that allows them to share power, refrigerant, and any other resources necessary for operation. The most important part of this infrastructure is the refrigerant line, which is what makes it possible for the heat pump to actually move heat from one location to the other.
Heat Pump Operation
A heat pump is constructed similar to an air conditioner because it actually operates very much like an air conditioner. However, while an air conditioner will leech heat from the air inside the home and vent it outside, the heat pump does the opposite. When the thermostat calls for heat, the outside part of the heat pump begins to evaporate refrigerant using a coil inside the casing. This process makes the refrigerant gas into a heat sink, drawing the heat from the surrounding air and into the coil. The refrigerant gas, now holding the heat from outside, then travels down the refrigerant line and into the inside unit, where it is condensed back into liquid. This releases the heat to warm the air being circulated through the house.
Heat Pump Benefits
The way in which heat pumps heat makes them extremely energy efficient, because they don’t rely on any sort of fuel combustion to operate. All a heat pump needs to warm a home is thermal energy from the surrounding air and electricity to run on. Not only is this more efficient than heating systems like furnaces and boilers, but it is safer as well. Combustion systems produce a number of extremely toxic gases, which need to be vented outside of the home to prevent injury or death. Heat pumps don’t need these extra safety measures, because they don’t produce any toxic byproducts.
If you’d like to know more about heat pumps, call Roznovak. We provide heat pumps throughout Taylor, TX.
Ways that a Humidifier can Improve Your Health
Friday, February 20th, 2015When people hear about humidity, it’s often discussed as a bad thing. If there is high humidity during the day, it can feel as though you’re slogging through a swamp every time you go outside.
Humidity can make you feel sweaty, sticky, and just gross in general. So, why in the world would you actually want a device that increases the humidity in your house? Well, it turns out that a little bit of humidity is actually very good for your health. Let’s take a look at how your body interacts with the humidity in the air, and how a humidifier can improve your health.
Humidity and You
Humidity, determined by the level of moisture in the air, serves a number of important roles for both plants and animals. However, there must be a balance for humidity to be beneficial to life. If humidity is too high, it makes it harder for your body to cool itself by sweating. This is why you feel like you just got out of a pool during humid days; your body is sweating more than usual to try and correct the balance.
If humidity is too low, however, it can have much more negative effects on your body. Most of the human body is liquid, and contains a number of protective membranes that need to be moist to work properly. If the air around you is too dry, the membranes in your sinuses dry out. This causes them to crack and bleed, as well as drastically reducing their ability to protect you from infection. In areas with consistently low humidity, like deserts, people tend to get sick far more often because their bodies’ defenses are weakened. Low humidity can also be caused by using forced air heating systems too much, like during the winter season.
Humidifiers
Humidifiers are devices that emit water vapor to increase the humidity in the air. They are used to correct the balance of humidity in your home, by compensating for both natural and artificially low humidity levels. If you find yourself suffering from extremely dry air, we highly recommend that you consult a professional about purchasing a humidifier. If you do use a humidifier, however, be sure to keep it clean and well-maintained. Remember that humidity that is too high can cause a whole host of other problems.
If you think you may need a humidifier in your home, call Roznovak. We provide humidifiers throughout the Taylor, TX area.
3 Benefits of Scheduling Heating Maintenance
Friday, October 3rd, 2014Leaving the heating system alone until it starts manifesting problems is a very common attitude among homeowners. It can also cost you thousands of dollars a year. Preventative maintenance is always cheaper than repairing or replacing a broken part. Cost isn’t the only factor to consider, either.
Read on to discover 3 benefits of scheduling heating maintenance.
Reliability
Not all problems with your heating system will give you warning before causing the entire unit to break down. If you wait for some sort of sign before calling your HVAC technician, you may get blindsided with a broken system and an expensive repair bill. This could be especially bad in winter, when going without heat for even one day is a very uncomfortable thought.
Scheduling regular heating maintenance gives you the advantage of addressing minor issues before they become big, expensive problems. You can also have the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your heating system has a clean bill of health.
Savings
As mentioned above, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Little problems that can be easily fixed at first can grow into very expensive problems in short order. This is especially true of parts that the rest of the system relies on. Broken motor? The whole system is useless. Malfunctioning thermostat? Even if the rest of the system is perfectly fine, it won’t work. On top of all that, many manufacturer warranties require that you conduct regular maintenance in order for them to remain valid. If you neglect your heating maintenance and something goes wrong, you may end up paying entirely out of pocket.
Efficiency
There are some occasions where your heating system will display symptoms of a problem before breaking down entirely. That doesn’t mean that you can just ignore those symptoms, however. Even if the problem does not intensify, which is unlikely, you will experience a drop in efficiency from the unit. This can cause your utility bill to go up, as the unit has to work harder to do its job. Proper maintenance saves you from those high utility bills because of a malfunctioning unit.
If you haven’t had your heating unit checked this year, call Roznovak. We’re experts in heating maintenance in Taylor, TX.
