In The House

Sometimes we unknowingly cause our furnaces to work harder or even worse, stop working altogether. In this episode, we discuss things you should avoid doing or start doing to help your furnace do its job and keep you comfortable when it's cold outside.

Do you have a furnace? Then this podcast is for you. We are talking about everything you need to maintain your furnace and keep it running for as long as possible!

Have you ever seen the sting operations on the news, talking about contractors misleading customers just to sell them a new system? If you have ever worried about that happening to you? In this episode we give you suggestions on how to avoid being taken advantage of.

Does your furnace turn off before it reaches the desired temperature? We'll tell you some signs to look for to know if your furnace is possibly overheating. 

There are different views on getting your furnace regularly serviced or tuned-up. It’s common to hear professionals say it's not important. But the manual for your system actually tells you to get it regularly serviced. Here ‘In The House’, we tend to think that the people who made the system probably have good advice to give.

While smoke detectors need a change in batteries every once in a while they also eventually go bad. In this episode of In The House we talk about how long they should last and also some signs that they’ve expired.

Furnaces should last 10, 15, 20 years, so why are you having problems only a couple years after it's installed? In this episode of In the House we talk about how you can know if your furnace is being installed correctly.

As magical as icicles may seem they can be a sign of a more serious issue. In this episode we discuss how icicles are formed and the possible damage they could be doing to your home. Tune in to learn how to avoid and fix this problem. 

In this episode we're joined with Jeff Holt of Holt's Water Conditioning to talk about reverse osmosis systems.

Hard or soft water looks the same to all of us. So what's the big deal? Can something so microscopic really be that bad? In this podcast we talk about what hard water is and the damage it can cause.