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Air Conditioning and Your Child’s Play Time

These days our children tend to play inside more and more. While this often protects them from unsafe neighborhoods, bugs and other dangers, you should be particular about your child’s play space at home. One critical aspect of this preparation, which we will discuss here, is that of air conditioning. Your child should play in [...]

Increased Efficiency in Modern Portable AC Systems

It used to be that the only useful portable air conditioners we’re really portable. It’s nice to take your window unit with you when you move to another apartment, but it is a hassle to install each time. With a traditional window air conditioner, you have to worry about it dripping water and there [...]

Magnetic Air Conditioners

No, they’re not exactly the same magnets that plenty of parents use to proudly display their children’s elementary school artwork on the refrigerator door. But magnets could help to bring about something of a revolution in refrigeration – which, in turn, could one day result in the use of Air Conditioners powered by magnetic energy.As [...]

Humidity and Air Conditioning

Does humidity have any effect on your air conditioning system? After all, once you are out of the heat and into an air-conditioned space, humidity’s effects pretty much cease…don’t they?Not quite. In addition to adding an air of oppression to the atmosphere, which can sometimes be intense, elevated humidity levels also make machines work harder. [...]

Cooling a Tiny House

If you’ve been thinking about downsizing to a smaller living space, the Tiny House movement may have caught your attention. Many of the scaled-down living spaces are extremely efficient when it comes to using space, and some are also transportable when placed on trailers.As small as some of the tiny houses are – no more [...]

Installing a Mini-Split on an Interior Wall

Choosing a mini-split system to cool just one area or zone of a structure is often seen as a cost-saving measure for many homeowners and business operators. One study of a Pacific Northwest power company’s customers indicated that people could save up to 50% off their heating bills with a Ductless Mini Split Air Conditioning [...]

Sprucing Up AC Units for Spring

It’s getting to be that time of year again when air conditioner units are about to be started up for the season. This requires a series of maintenance steps, which are outlined below, courtesy of FamilyHandyman.com:First, locate the shutoff box near the exterior of the unit and turn off the power. If this box does [...]

A 3D-Printed AC Unit

While perhaps it could have been predicted decades ago that air conditioning units would evolve beyond basic Window AC to include Multi-Zone systems, among others, it’s likely that not many people could have envisioned an AC unit that could be created by a gizmo known as a 3D printer.And yet, that’s exactly what has occurred, [...]

AC Theft Becomes Federal Case

Depending on market values of certain building supplies, such as copper pipe, many construction sites turn out to be the target of thieves looking to make a quick buck by pilfering items and then selling them for scrap value.In fact, a couple of years ago, copper reportedly became such a prized commodity that thieves were [...]

Are Your AC Coils Frosted?

And no, that’s not an attempt to start an argument. A central air conditioning unit’s coils can become covered in ice when a couple of things happen: The temperature of the refrigerant dips below the freezing point, and the humidity on the atmosphere freezes onto the surface of the coils.Much like a frozen fuel line [...]