Evaluating the best air conditioning systems for your home or office depends on two things: the level of air conditioning that you need in relation the square footage of your structure and the characteristics that you desire in an air conditioner. Because installing a central air conditioning system is expensive, some people try to cut corners and install a lower tonnage air conditioner than their space requires, which results in an over worked air conditioner and an insufficient level of cooling.
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Three years ago, the central air conditioning in my 2,300 sq ft house stopped working in the middle of July in Atlanta. Needless to say, I was on the phone with a heating and cooling company within 15 minutes. But for the next three days, as heating and cooling companies came and went, my jaw kept dropping and dropping.
Read this post »We often think of poor air quality as being visible to the naked eye, and sometimes it is. We’ve all seen pictures of smoggy cities and dusty factories where the workers wear masks. But poor quality can also be like a ghost: just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean that it’s not there.
Read this post »Facing hot weather without air conditioning can amount to more than embarrassing sweat patterns on your clothes; it can lead to heat strokes, dehydration and even death. Around late July or early August, we typically turn on the nightly news and hear about precautions that we should take to avoid these things. But how often do we take them seriously?
Read this post »The concept of sustainable design plays a large role in the goal of the green movement: to make the human world compatible with the natural word. When most of us think of sustainable design, we think of solar panels and recyclable building materials—large scale elements that seem to typify green living. Yet, there are a host of smaller elements that are just as indispensable to going absolutely “green”, and one of them is eco friendly air conditioners.
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