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Should You Get a Heat Recovery Ventilatior?

Should You Get a Heat Recovery Ventilatior?

While tight windows and doors lower heating costs, they contribute stale indoor air. Installing a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) solves the problems associated with tightly sealed homes and lower indoor

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Finding the Right Balance Between Heating and Humidity

Finding the Right Balance Between Heating and Humidity

The amount of humidity in the air fluctuates with the seasons. Winter air is always drier because cold air holds less moisture than warm air, and running your heating system

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How Can a Humidifier Help During Wintertime?

How Can a Humidifier Help During Wintertime?

Winter brings more than bitter, freezing winds and icy roads. The cold weather, along with your home’s heating system, reduces indoor humidity levels and leaves air uncomfortably dry. Adding humidifiers

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How to Determine if Your Home Has a Humidity Problem

How to Determine if Your Home Has a Humidity Problem

With the growing movement toward more energy-efficient homes, a whole new issue has cropped up for homeowners: Tightly sealed, energy efficient houses often develop a humidity problem. While some humidity

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Use These Tips to Properly Ventilate Your Bathroom

Use These Tips to Properly Ventilate Your Bathroom

Sufficient bathroom ventilation is critical for holding off odors and mildew. The Middletown area’s humidity makes it difficult at times, but maintaining good air quality in your bathroom is possible.

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Too Much Humidity in Your Southeast New York Home? Give the A/C a Break

When outdoor humidity levels are high, does it seem as though your air conditioner can’t keep up? If the A/C is working fine but doesn’t remove enough moisture from the

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Stop Seasonal Allergies with These Home Hay Fever-Proofing Tips

Spring in New York is a beautiful time of year.  The trees are budding and green is appearing everywhere and…achoo!  Yes, seasonal allergies are also in full-force.  It seems no

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Time to Replace Your Air Conditioner? Understand When to Purchase a New Unit

With each passing day we move one step away from winter and inch our way closer to summer.  As temperatures warm here in Middletown, there are a few considerations when

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Include Your A/C’s Coils on That Spring Cleaning Checklist

Yes, we’re still shoveling snow here in New York, but early-spring isn’t too soon to prepare for the summer months’ record high temperatures and soaring humidity levels by performing some

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