Anthony's Home Services Blogs

Discover expert tips, maintenance guides, and practical advice to keep your HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems running safely and efficiently — all from the pros who care about your comfort.

Read all articles

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...

8 Ways to Maintain Fireplace Safety

8 Ways to Maintain Fireplace Safety

No other source of heat offers the kind of special warmth and ambiance you get from a wood-burning fireplace. It can instantly make your...

Space Heater Do’s and Don’ts

Space Heater Do’s and Don’ts

While there are numerous opportunities to use a space heater, ultimately there’s just one reason: to generate heat. Maybe you need more in one...

Thanksgiving Safety Tips

Thanksgiving Safety Tips

What tickles your funny bone, especially during the holiday season? Cherished memories of things that didn’t quite go according to plan? You know the...

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....

How to Protect Your Plumbing

How to Protect Your Plumbing

Your home plumbing systems and fixtures – how easy it is to take them for granted. Of course, bliss can turn into horror when...

7 Ways to Improve Your Shower Experience

7 Ways to Improve Your Shower Experience

If the way you approach taking a shower has changed from “Ah, can’t wait” to “Can’t wait to get this over with,” clearly something...

Clean, dry basement with proper ventilation and no visible mold, showing a healthy and moisture-free space.

How to Keep Your Basement Mold-Free!

You open the door to your basement and as you head downstairs, it hits you – that quintessential moldy, basement-y smell. You might be...

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...

The Benefits of Hydro Jetting a Sewer Pipe

The Benefits of Hydro Jetting a Sewer Pipe

There are blocked drain problems and then BLOCKED drain problems – you know, the really big kind. The kind you most likely can’t handle...

The Truth About So-Called Flushable Wipes

The Truth About So-Called Flushable Wipes

Talk about advertising claims that, technically speaking, are true but only in a limited sense. You know, the kind of semi-false claims meant more...

Bathroom Cleaning Shortcuts

Bathroom Cleaning Shortcuts

What’s not to enjoy about having a clean house? It looks, smells, and feels better, and you’re ready just about any time for company...

How to Plan a Kitchen Remodel

How to Plan a Kitchen Remodel

Home renovation projects come in all shapes and sizes. You can update your kitchen remodel , for example, with a new faucet, a throw...

How to Prevent a Soggy Lawn

How to Prevent a Soggy Lawn

They say too much of a good thing is not so good. When it comes Soggy Lawns to rain, we couldn’t agree more. Sure,...

Summer Home To-Dos

Summer Home To-Dos

Ah, summer…the time to enjoy outdoor music, pool parties, spontaneous road trips, and ice cream for dinner. But before the dog days of summer...

How to Stay Safe in the Shower

How to Stay Safe in the Shower

You read a lot these days about bathroom safety for seniors and small children. There are two sides to that coin. Side one: Seniors...

The Benefits of Home Water Filtration

The Benefits of Home Water Filtration

Here’s one of life’s little ironies: nothing is more essential to our bodies than water, and yet most people don’t treat water quality as...

Benefits of a Wall-Mounted AC System

Benefits of a Wall-Mounted AC System

Poor ductless air systems. How do they make it through a Wall Mounted AC day without wondering who and what they are? You’d have...

Central AC Tune-Up Services

Why You Need a Central AC Tune-Up

Here’s our advice: after you purchase your next new car, don’t have the oil changed. Instead, Central AC just wait for the engine to...

How to Choose a Shower Curtain

How to Choose a Shower Curtain

On an average daily basis, how much time do you spend perfect bathroom thinking about either your current shower curtain, or what the next...

Water Heater Warning Signs

Water Heater Warning Signs

Imagine friends coming over for a visit and, out of nowhere, one of them asks: “So, how’s your water heater?” Here’s how you WOULDN’T...

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...

Things to Clean and Heating After Being Sick

Things to Clean and Heating After Being Sick

Cold and flu season can seem to drag on for months on end. No escape, heating cooling no respite. That’s not quite the reality,...

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, filled with sparkling lights, Christmas tree family gatherings, and excited children with their eyes all aglow....

How to Clean Your Showerhead

How to Clean Your Showerhead

Leave it alone long enough, and your showerhead can clog up from Showerhead Cleaning excess amount of lime, manganese, calcium, and other mineral deposits....

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...

Thanksgiving Drain Cleaning Tips

Thanksgiving Drain Cleaning Tips

  All set for Thanksgiving? Here at Anthony’s Plumbing, Heating & Air, we hope it’s your best ever. As you know, the day after...

Girl eating healthy snacks in winter

Healthy Winter Habits

Spending more time indoors during the winter is a recipe for inertia. And inertia, in itself a bad habit, leads to even more bad...

Halloween Trivia & Fun Facts

Before you know it, little ghosts and goblins will be knocking on your door, bags in hand, arms stretched out, chanting those three famous...

Girl drinking water from glass with water filter

Do I Need a Water Filter?

Every time you pour a glass of water, boil a pound of pasta, or wash your kid in the tub, you want to BELIEVE...

Common Fall Allergies and One Great Solution

Common Fall Allergies and One Great Solution

Autumn can be a brutal time of year for allergies sufferers. Here’s just some of what might be keeping you down. Hay Fever Ragweed,...

How to Clean Bath Toys

How to Clean Bath Toys

When bathing your kids in the tub, you’re thinking about getting the kids clean and then later the tub and surrounding floor. Well, the...

Home water softener benefits

The Benefits of a Home Water Softener

Hard water can make a mess of things in your home. Home water Once you see any signs of it, you’ll want to take...

Simple bathroom remodeling ideas

Simple Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

“Where to start, where to start?!” And thus launches many a bathroom upgrade, from simple to total makeover. Well, one of the best places...

Reduce your water bill

How to Reduce Your Water Bill

There’s nothing seasonal about water conservation; it’s a year-round pursuit. And while you’re no doubt doing your part, perhaps you’d like conserve more and...

The Benefit of a Back-up Sump Pump

The Benefit of a Back-up Sump Pump

Has water ever invaded your basement around the same time you lost power? If so, you already know why a sump pump alone can’t...

How to Improve Home Water Quality

How to Improve Home Water Quality

What do volatile organic compounds, lead, and pesticides have in common? Long-term home water quality exposure to these substances – even at extremely low...

The Benefits of a Tub to Shower Conversion

The Benefits of a Tub to Shower Conversion

A recent study reveals that, given the choice, Americans prefer Shower Conversion over bathtubs. That trend seems to reflect busier lifestyles that allow for...

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...

Improve your home’s indoor air quality

How to Improve Your Home’s Indoor Air Quality

Does your home seem unusually dusty? Are you constantly Indoor Air battling the sniffles? Is static electricity a persistent problem? If so, these are...

Problems homeowners face during home remodeling

Problems to Expect When Remodeling Your Home

Owning a home can be full of surprises, both good and bad. Discovering a box full of antique, collectible coins in the attic? Very...