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The heating side of your heat pump has not run since March, and that is the problem. Everywhere else, winter prep protects equipment from cold. Here it verifies parts that have gone slack from disuse. A South Florida heat pump sits in cooling mode eight to ten months while the reversing valve and backup strips … Read more
Most of what you will read about preparing a filter for winter was written for a gas furnace in Ohio. Follow it in Tamarac and it costs you money. The heaviest filters our technicians pull all year come out of South Florida homes in January and February, not August. Here the equipment is different, the … Read more
A heat pump in South Florida lives a harder life than one almost anywhere else in the country. It runs close to 12 months a year, it breathes salt air the whole time, and both of those facts shape the answer to how long a heat pump lasts. For most systems, the honest number is … Read more
In a Tamarac townhome with no existing ductwork, mini splits are almost always the right answer. In a 1990s Hialeah ranch with central air still running clean, usually not. Whether ductless is worth it for your home depends on the layout you’re working with and on what you’d otherwise install or replace. The typical mini … Read more
We have pulled hundreds of air filters from South Florida HVAC systems. What we find, more often than not, is a filter that looks right but fits wrong. A gap as small as a quarter inch along the frame edge lets unfiltered air bypass the media entirely. Dust, allergens, and mold spores travel straight into … Read more
No. A 20x25x5 MERV 8 filter does not remove wildfire smoke odors from a home. It catches the larger dust and debris a whole-house filter is built to catch, and that is the end of the job. The reason sits in basic chemistry. Smoke odor comes from gases, not particles, and pleated filters at any … Read more
On June 7, 2023, New York City recorded the worst air quality of any major city in the world. The AQI topped 400. By the end of that single day, asthma-related emergency department visits had climbed 82 percent statewide across New York. Our team tracks what wildfire smoke does to indoor air quality during events … Read more
Last month we walked into a Tamarac home with three HEPA-labeled air purifiers running in separate rooms. Two of them were undersized by more than half the square footage they were supposed to cover. The filter grades were legitimate. The unit selection was the problem, and the homeowner had no way to know the difference … Read more
We quote oil furnace replacements across South Florida’s coastal communities every week. Most homeowners come in expecting a price conversation. What they get is a system conversation, because in this climate, the decision about what replaces an aging oil furnace matters as much as the cost of the replacement itself. Complete oil furnace replacement runs … Read more
June is when we get the calls. A homeowner in Tamarac ran the system all night and woke up to 84 degrees inside. Our technician arrived the next morning, pulled the evaporator coil, and found it packed solid with two years of buildup. That service call cost $340. The tune-up that would have caught it … Read more