Heating and cooling, explained
Notes from 67 counties of service calls — what fails in Pennsylvania houses, why it fails, and what is worth doing about it.
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Why so many Pennsylvania furnaces fail on the first cold night
Every year the first hard freeze produces a wave of no-heat calls. It is not coincidence, and most of those failures were detectable weeks earlier.
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Boiler or furnace? Making sense of the heating system in an older Pennsylvania home
Pennsylvania has one of the oldest housing stocks in the country, which means a lot of people live with heating systems nobody has ever explained to them.
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Heat pumps in Pennsylvania winters: what actually happens when it gets cold
Heat pumps are going into Pennsylvania homes in real numbers. Here is what is normal behaviour, what is a genuine fault, and what the cold really does to them.
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What a real furnace tune-up includes, and what to look for on the invoice
Maintenance is sold hard and delivered inconsistently. Here is what should happen during a heating service, so you can tell whether you got one.
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