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.
Furnace cleaning and maintenance costs $149–$275. Here is what a NATE-certified technician checks before winter in Albany, Corvallis and the Willamette Valley.
Read the article →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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