Is your basement a sore spot in your home? Mold growth and musty odors in an otherwise efficient and comfortable home can be detrimental to indoor air quality and home structure. Additionally, there’s the potential for basement water from cracks in the basement walls and foundation, a burst pipe [...]
Keeping an eye on water usage in your home saves money, reduces the burden on plumbing and septic systems and helps you detect and fix smaller problems before they become expensive repairs. If conserving water is important to you, keep reading for simple tips to help you save water this summer and [...]
While homeowners insurance claims for fire damage have declined—probably because of the decrease in cigarette smoking—claims for home water damage have soared. Travelers Insurance Company recently reported that home water damage is now ten times more likely than fire damage. What’s more, the average water damage claim now exceeds [...]
Problems with your plumbing can really take the fun out of summer, but you can save yourself the stress by doing a few things every season to protect your home’s plumbing. The following are the best tips for keeping your plumbing in great shape during the hottest season of the [...]
The work we can perform on your Lehigh Valley home’s central air conditioner can go by many names: preventive maintenance, pre-season tune-up, annual service, or routine inspection; but whatever you call it, we just want you to call us to do it. At Edwin Stipe, Inc. we want long-term [...]
With the temperatures of the summer season about to hit their peak, now is an excellent time to troubleshoot your central air conditioning unit for minor things before anything major goes wrong. Here are a few suggestions for getting this task accomplished: Check the Filters – This task is quite [...]
In the last two hundred years or so, air pollution has taken a turn for the worst, slowly destroying the environment with noxious toxins. The Industrial Revolution was the catalyst that doomed the world to be covered in smoke. Silver chimneys began to rise from the ground and produced an [...]
Requirements before Your New Air Conditioning or Heat Pump Installation or Upgrade As of January 1, 2015, the regulations regarding packaged heat pumps and air conditioning units became stricter. The governing body that rates energy efficiency made the move to increase the minimum Seasonal Energy Efficiency Rating (SEER) from 13 [...]
If you've been told it's time for a system upgrade, well, then it's also time to get familiar with SEER before you replace your air conditioning unit. The Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio, or SEER, is the best way to evaluate and compare new air conditioning systems. If your system [...]
Eastern Pennsylvania’s winters are hard enough on body and soul without the added strain of frozen pipes. Many plumbers in Easton, PA are scrambling throughout the season to keep up with emergency calls, many of which could be avoided with proper precautions. If, even after taking some preventive steps, you [...]
