I am like most contractors and techs. I've heard about HEPA for a long time, but I never looked into how it could be integrated into an A/C IAQ strategy until now. First, here's what HEPA is: HEPA (High-Efficiency Particle Arrestance) is an ASME, U.S. DOE standard that specifies a capture rate of 99.97% of […]

Bert recently made a video about his top residential A/C maintenance service tips. He showed some pretty good practices in there, so we’re going to revisit them in this article. Maintenance procedures are vital to any HVAC business, especially those specializing in residential A/C. When we do maintenances, the customers see our faces, and when […]

I've been reading a book called Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything, and it got me interested once again in the history of air conditioning and refrigeration. Like many things, the people who are credited with “inventing” are the ones dogged enough to make an idea commercially successful, not the idealists forever tucked away in the […]