I constantly get this question from homeowners in the greater Lexington, KY, area, and the answer is almost always, “Yes!” Almost — but more about that later. Are you in Central Kentucky? Call us at 859-687-0553 – we’d love to chat with you about your furnace needs. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF RUNNING MY FURNACE FAN? Better circulation of heated…
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CAN MY HOME BE SEALED TOO TIGHTLY? There is a catchy phrase right now that is growing in popularity among top builders: “Build it tight and vent it right!” We really need to change the conventional wisdom of ventilating houses. Vented crawlspaces are a very bad thing. Most good builders have switched to sealed, insulated,…
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Sophomoric humor aside, houses that “breathe” through air leaks really do suck — they suck air from all the wrong places. We call this uncontrolled or unintentional ventilation, also known as infiltration. THE DANGERS OF UNCONTROLLED VENTILATION Uncontrolled ventilation simply means that your house is “breathing” from the worst possible places, such as your attic…
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If you have read anything I have ever written, you know by now that I preach about the “domino effect” that’s created when we make one upgrade to a home without accounting for how it affects other systems. Case in point: I recently visited a client in the Lexington area who said they had a case of…
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Here at the Clark household we recently had a debate about running the kitchen exhaust fan while cooking. Chef Haley (my wife) hates the sound of the fan so she prefers not to run it. But the smell of the gas range burning has me concerned about carbon monoxide poisoning. We have a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm…
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