Friday, June 5, 2009

Your House as a System - It's Alive!


A house is sort of like the human body. It’s made up of multiple components that together create an ultimate living environment.

Take your water heater, home cooling and heating systems, for example. These are your most obvious “comfort keepers.” But even with the most modern and energy efficient of equipment, you still have other things to consider before you can realize maximum indoor comfort and energy savings.

Here are two examples that help illustrate the point:

· Your high-efficiency furnace won't run at peak performance without adequate weather-stripping around windows and doors. Same goes for the insulation in your walls and attic.

· High-efficiency windows won't solve your home's condensation problems if they weren’t properly sealed or insulated. Home condensation also depends on fine tuning the humidifier in your furnace, and the proper venting of bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans.

The fact is, we keep making changes to our homes. We install new furnaces, cooling systems, exhaust fans, and the air ducts these systems require to move warm or cool air from one point to another. The cleaner your ducts, the smoother the air flow. Later, we buy new and improved washers and dryers, dishwashers, computers, extra bathrooms, and even hot tubs and aquariums. These produce moisture and heat that most houses are not designed to remove.

The point is, all these increasingly common household conveniences interact with each other, and sometimes in ways that can cause serious problems. Mold and moisture damage, carbon monoxide poisoning, large energy losses, long-term health effects, and malfunctioning equipment are just a few examples of what can go wrong.

That’s why the professionals at Rapid Service take a holistic approach to providing for your family’s year-round indoor comfort. Recommending a new or replacement heating or cooling system isn’t just about the system itself. It’s about your home, everything in it, and how you and your family occupy your time indoors.

So with a change of seasons just around the corner, perhaps this is the perfect time to determine just how efficient your home “system” is running. To that end, we invite you to contact Rapid Service for:

· A thorough inspection of your heating or cooling system; or,

· A replacement heating or cooling system; or,

· A replacement water heater.

Visit our website at rapidservicellc.com for a $25 coupon that can be used toward any repair work or new installation.

Rapid Service “Around the House,” we’re at the top of our game.