Lead Times Are Back. Plan Your Summer in March.
Equipment availability tightened again this spring. What we're seeing from distributors and how far ahead you should really be thinking.
Read the article →From the desk of John C. Maine
I write these myself. No marketing department, no ghostwriter. Mostly it's what happened in the trade this year and what it means at your house — the refrigerant rules, the tariffs, the tax credit nobody warned you about, and the two weeks each spring when replacing a system costs less.
Equipment availability tightened again this spring. What we're seeing from distributors and how far ahead you should really be thinking.
Read the article →Eleven degrees, four days, and a lot of people who'd been told heat pumps 'don't work up here.' Here's what our service data actually showed.
Read the article →Congress let the $2,000 heat pump credit lapse at the end of December. I ran the numbers on what a valley homeowner actually lost.
Read the article →On what an emergency call actually feels like from the other side of the door — and the promise we make about it.
Read the article →R-410A is on the way out, R-454B is in, and R-22 systems are now genuinely uneconomical to repair. Plain talk about what's in your condenser.
Read the article →Regional electric and gas rates keep climbing. Here's where the savings actually live, ranked by what they returned in real homes we measured.
Read the article →I'm going to show you where the money actually went, line by line, because you deserve better than 'costs went up.'
Read the article →Three weeks of unhealthy air last August. Filtration, fresh-air intakes, and the honest limits of what a whole-home system can do.
Read the article →Three days over 105°. We ran 214 calls. I want to tell you honestly what we could and couldn't do.
Read the article →There are about fourteen days each spring and fall when replacing a system costs less, installs faster, and doesn't wreck your week. Almost nobody books them.
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