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Space heater placed too close to curtains in a living room during winter, highlighting fire risk.

Why Space Heaters Pose a Serious Fire Risk in Winter

When cold weather settles in, many homeowners reach for space heaters as a fast way to warm themselves up in drafty rooms. Space heaters...

Ceiling fan in a modern living room helping reduce heating costs

How a Ceiling Fan Can Help Reduce Heating Costs

“Wait a minute,” you might be thinking. “A ceiling fan? In the winter? Wouldn’t that just make the room colder?” It’s an understandable question...

Girl sitting comfortably in a room using smart methods to reduce home heating costs

How to Reduce Your Home Heating Costs

As temperatures drop like so many leaves from a maple tree, most homeowners brace themselves for higher energy bills. Heating your home can account...

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Furnace Repair vs. Replacement: How to Decide

When your furnace starts showing signs of trouble, it’s natural to wonder whether a single repair will solve the problem, or if it’s finally...

Girl in shawl feeling cold at home, highlighting need for heating system tune-up

Why Early Fall Is the Smartest Time for a Heating System Tune-Up

When the days are still warm and your air conditioner is doing most of the work, your furnace or heating system is probably the...

Interior of a garage workshop with tools and workbench.

How to Keep Your Garage Workshop Warm This Winter

Most New Jersey homeowners find their garages uncomfortably cold during the winter months. After all, garages just aren’t built to stay warm inside when...

Technician inspecting a home heating system.

Do I Really Need Annual Heating System Maintenance?

For many of us, staying comfortable this time of year can me a challenge. Shivering as you head out the door in the morning,...

Family enjoying warmth under a cozy blanket near the home heating system.

8 Signs Your Heating System is Wasting Energy

As winter descends and the temperature drops, heating systems become essential lifelines, providing warmth and comfort. However, when these systems operate inefficiently, they can...

Technician inspecting a home heating system before winter.

Why Fall Is The Best Time for Heating System Maintenance

Timing is everything. Whether it’s delivering the punchline of a joke, hitting a home run, or leaving the house 5 minutes early to avoid...

What's that Foul Furnace Odor?

What’s that Foul Furnace Odor?

In general, your furnace should be seen and – other than regular cycling on and Foul Furnace Odor off – not heard. And most...

Girl wearing a shawl, drinking tea indoors during an annual furnace inspection

Is An Annual Furnace Inspection Really Necessary?

Many things in life require regular check-ups and maintenance, from dental visits to annual physicals to your car’s routine oil changes. Your home’s furnace...

How to Prevent Static Electrical Shock

Why Your Heating System is Blowing Cold Air

You’re inside your home, beginning to shiver heating system as the temperature outside dips lower and lower. Hey, it’s winter, nothing unusual about that....

Home heating system showing signs of failure with pipes and thermostat issues.

Is Your Heating System Failing? Here’s How to Tell.

Spoiler alert: your heating system won’t last forever. In fact, if you live in your home long enough, your system is certain to fail....

Common Furnace Warning Signs

Common Furnace Warning Signs

When it comes to home heating problems, there are plenty furnance warning of people who live in the land of “denial”. As in, it...

The Benefits of Converting from Oil to Gas Heat

The Benefits of Converting from Oil to Gas Heat

If you have oil heat then, from one year to the next, you can’t count on paying about the same as the year before....

Furnace Fuel Efficiency – How Much is Enough?

Furnace Fuel Efficiency – How Much is Enough?

Let’s say your furnace is on its last legs. It’s been a long, comfortable ride, but repair bills are mounting and, sooner or later,...

How to Prevent Heat Loss

How to Prevent Heat Loss

In some homes, heat so easily escapes outdoors that its occupants are tempted to jump out a window after it. Kind of a drastic...

What is the Heat Exchanger in My Furnace?

What is the Heat Exchanger in My Furnace?

  The heart and soul of your furnace is the heat exchanger. It’s the largest component and the one most often ignored. The job...

How to Select a Heating Company

How to Select a Heating Company

Selecting a home heating company when you suddenly lose heat is easy…you look for someone who can come out right away and accepts your...

How to Cut Home Heating Costs

How to Cut Home Heating Costs

Summer turning to winter in New Jersey is a mixed blessing, utility cost wise. While you’re thrilled to see your electricity go down once...

Baby sleeping comfortably with home heating

4 Benefits of Heating System Maintenance

What are some things you’re positive will fail – or erode in some other fashion – without routine maintenance? Your car, for sure, or...

Home heating problems

Common Home Heating Problems

Even if you love winter in Central New Jersey, you wouldn’t care Troubleshooting for at quite as much with a finnicky furnace on your...

Girl climbing with heating system maintenance concept

Preventative Maintenance for Your Heating System

Have you ever thought of your Heating System the way you might a long-distance runner? Well, despite the fact the former is mechanical while...