Where Does Your Energy Go?
Today is that infamous first day of the year when I go out to get in my truck to go to work and my clean blue truck is covered in yellow pollen. The official signal of the beginning of Spring in Atlanta. No matter what the calendar says, Spring is here. Not only is the pollen falling, the azaleas are blooming and our yards are beginning to show off all their colors. This is also the time of...
Read MoreDry Charge R22 Units
At this point in the conversation about R-22 (the refrigerant used in most residential and small commercial air conditioning units), I wouldn’t be giving you a complete picture without discussing Dry Charge R-22 units. You may ask, what are these? or why do I care? Truthfully, you may not need to know or care, but with the predictions in the air conditioning market this year, many will...
Read MoreWhat’s Going on with Freon – Part 3 – What should I do?
So the question remains, based on the unstable R-22 market, the fact that it is indeed going away and that there is no telling at this point how expensive this precious gas will become – as a consumer, what does this mean to me?? I thought that after the EPA allowed production to begin back again in January, the markets would settle out and the price would come back down to a relatively...
Read MoreWhat’s going on with Freon – Part 2 – Today’s market
A good question to possibly ask is, “why does this matter now?”. R-22 is available now, and we have until 2020 before the production stops. I guess the good news is that our industry has done a pretty job of changing over to R-410A and moving away from R-22. As a result, the demand for R-22 has actually been less than anticipated in the allocation plans. In 1986, producers of...
Read MoreWhat’s Going on with R-22 – History
This will be the first of a 3 part blog series on R-22 or what most people refer to as Freon. Freon is actually a brand name for a family of chemicals. It’s just like when you call a tissue a Kleenex. Freon is a DuPont name for what we in the HVAC industry call refrigerant. There are a number of different refrigerants for numerous applications. The one that we want to pay particular...
Read MoreDecatur Home Energy Makeover – Day 1
As we began our work yesterday on the City of Decatur Home Energy Makeover project, it became very obvious why our homeowner is paying so much to heat and cool her home. If you recall, she has approximately 70% duct leakage. Duct leakage is one of the most under-emphasized components when looking at the energy usage in a house. This is especially the case when your house is heating and...
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