Heating and cooling systems are an integral part of your home. Whether you're maintaining a heating or cooling system, or replacing one, you can talk about it on Hometalk. There are HVAC professionals in the Hometalk community who will jump into conversations about anything related to heating and cooling, just to be helpful. There are also homeowners and renters who have dealt with all kinds of heating and cooling issues. From ventilation or boiler issues to thermostats & air conditioners, start talking about heating and cooling on Hometalk.
Home Maintenance & Repairs: How best to insulate attic?
I am about to put on a new roof, and I am putting in a subfloor in the attic to use it for storage ( for now). I would like to insulate the attic, but am unsure of the "best" way to do
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: Air Conditioner Maintenance?
I live in a pretty old apartment with an air conditioner that's probably been here since the 70's. I'm not sure what kind of maintenance it has received, if any. Is it necessary to do regular maintenance like changing coolant or something?
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Thanks Woodbridge Environmental Tiptophouse.com! I'll try that.
Home Maintenance & Repairs: Please help?
What can I do to get rid of this? We are under a reno/restoration of a 1956 cottage that has never been touched.
This is where the 'heat' comes out, there is one in every room.
Thank you in advance!
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Thank you so much! No water leaks or stains and all appear to be wrapped, however Kurt is ...»
Home Maintenance & Repairs: Replacing a defective bathroom vent
For starters, I'm not very good at home repairs, and finding this website is a Godsend to me. Things look simple to do, but for some reason, they don't wind up simple when I start doing
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a great option for replacement without replacing is to install an inline fan such as from fan ...»
Home Maintenance & Repairs: Not all of the vents in my house seem to be working properly, and my thermostat sometimes is set higher, then what the
house temperature reads. Examples: Thermostat gets turned to 68 and 5 hours later, it says it is 63 in here. I can feel heat coming out of some vents, but not others, or else it felels
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Oh that's such good news. Time, instead of money, spent is always a good result to a problem.
Home Maintenance & Repairs: Water coming from under my furnace and some under the moto of funace;
Please help me and help me to find the right people or company to fix it before my furnace breaks please.
Thanks Janet McMillan
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Thank you everyone.
Heating & Cooling: Need Suggestions for a Large Space Heating Issue
Our HVAC system (LONG story) has issues, our slumlord put in a less than adequate condensing unit to save money and as a result the 20 ton air handler and the 5 ton condenser are not
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I would depending upon your lease chase the landlord down to get it fixed correctly. If your ...»
Home Maintenance & Repairs: Use Screws Or Hammer Nails Back Into Joists?
Looks like the majority of the nails holding my duct work to the joists are popping out causing a slight sag in the duct work. should I simply hammer the nails back into place or replace them with screws? Looking down the line, it appears most are at least a quarter inch out of the joists.
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I'll pick up some sheet metal screws later today at the hardware store. I'll nail the nails ...»
Home Maintenance & Repairs: Constant dust in the house, and I know it is comeing from forced hot air vent and the AC. How would one go about trying
to get rid of it and a financial leash? I do change the filter's regulary, but would it be worth attempting to save the money to have duct work properly cleaned out? Or should I just
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Something I forgot to mention is that dust is 70% dead skin cells. If you have a pet then you ...»
Pellet stoves
Since we have no access to free/cheap firewood we are considering a pellet stove for use in our unfinished basement. Any suggestions for a reputable brand or company to buy from or what features may make it easier for us to use?
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Bernice H- Woodbrige did really ...»
Depending upon your states energy star program your monthly savings should be more then it would cost you to finance the project combined with the new energy bills. In other words done correctly with the rebate programs, your combined finance loan with the new utility bills should be less then what your currently paying now for your energy use without doing any of the work. Paybacks can be as little as 7 years. This is what folks in my area have been experiencing with the work I do.