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What's Your Indoor Air Quality? Leave a comment Read more »

What’s Your Indoor Air Quality?

How clean is the air in your home? If you want to know, how can you check? Many homeowners go for years, if ever, without knowing the quality of the air in their homes. Surprisingly, the air in your home is at least twice more…


Product Spotlight: Heater Thermostats Leave a comment Read more »

Product Spotlight: Heater Thermostats

Metro Heating & Cooling prides itself on reliable service and response to customers. Since 1976 we’ve been on the edge of home heating and air conditioning repair, and one of the ways we’ve kept customers so satisfied is that we’ve kept up to speed on…


Top three questions about furnaces, Part 3: What do those blinking lights in the viewport of my heater mean? Leave a comment Read more »

Top three questions about furnaces, Part 3: What do those blinking lights in the viewport of my heater mean?

Yes, isn’t it mysterious how so much of our own homes are a mystery to us. Some might say, “I don’t care how it works as long as it works. I just need that hot and cold air coming through the vents and I’m a…


Top three questions about furnaces, Part Two: What are the pipes coming out of the tip of the furnace? Leave a comment Read more »

Top three questions about furnaces, Part Two: What are the pipes coming out of the tip of the furnace?

Like so many engines or powered machines that have been invented in the past two hundred years, the system heating your home operates with the same principles in mind: an internal combustion engine that uses a certain kind of fuel to generate power to make…


Top three questions about furnaces: what's that water trickling sound when the furnace is on? Leave a comment Read more »

Top three questions about furnaces: what’s that water trickling sound when the furnace is on?

In those quiet moments when you’re alone in the house and all you can hear is the heater running, warming the air around you, there’s an attentiveness to every detail of what that amazing machine does to heat a home. Sometimes parts of it can…


What do furnace ratings mean? Leave a comment Read more »

What do furnace ratings mean?

Energy efficiency. That’s the big phrase for the past ten years as concerns rise over environmental issues and the cost of our energy. In an ideal world, every bit of energy our heaters create would be passed to the interior of our house, moved directly…


What's the big deal with Variable Speed Furnaces? Leave a comment Read more »

What’s the big deal with Variable Speed Furnaces?

First to know why Variable Speed Furnaces are so wonderful, there has to be a proper introduction, which means presenting the other options: Single-stage furnace. These are the oldest kind of heaters (other than fire and coal) and are obviously so because they are basically…


Tips for a Healthier Home, Part 2: Duct Cleaning Leave a comment Read more »

Tips for a Healthier Home, Part 2: Duct Cleaning

One of the most miss understood things in the heating and air conditioning system is the duct work. Very few people know how to design a duct system properly, and its critical. Its critical because number one, if it doesn’t work properly it can cause…


What to do if your house has "cold spots" Leave a comment Read more »

What to do if your house has “cold spots”

Are you finding that your home has rooms that are colder than others, or even certain parts of rooms where these “cold spots” are felt? Other than ghosts being your problem, which would require another set of technicians to solve, there could be a variety…


Tips for a Healthier Home, Part 1: The best way to get rid of Allergies Leave a comment Read more »

Tips for a Healthier Home, Part 1: The best way to get rid of Allergies

If you or anyone in your home suffers from asthma or allergies, a Guardian Air Purification System is a great project. It simply installs in your home air conditioning system and eliminates allergies, mold, mildew, bacteria, and also eliminates househole odors. For more information, visit…


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