Omaha’s Home Service Blog: Plumbing, HVAC, and Electrical Tips & Insights from the Experts
Uneven Air Distribution from Your Heating or Cooling System
It’s a common in-home occurrence all year long: some areas of your home are warmer or cooler than others. To compensate for the less comfortable areas, you adjust the thermostat accordingly and, in the process, jack up your energy costs. Those may be facts of life, but they’re not ones you need to live with. [...]
What Does an Electrician Do
How are you at pop quizzes? Ready to try one now? Great! Open a Word Doc on your computer or grab a pad of paper and pen and, in 60 seconds, jot down every service you can think of that an electrician routinely performs. We’ll sit back and wait while you complete your assignment… Okay, [...]
How to Heat Your Home for Less
There’s one sure way to keep warm during the winter: just spike the thermostat whenever you start to feel cold. That assumes, of course, that you don’t mind paying sky-high utility bills. For people who do mind, they sometimes wrack their brains trying to come up with new and creative ways to keep warm without [...]
How to Choose the Right Space Heater
Do you have that one room or area of your home that is knee-knocking cold while the rest of the house is perfectly comfortable? Or, perhaps you prefer your home at a pleasant 68 degrees F, while another member of your household enjoys a cozier 72. No doubt about it: you can please some of [...]
Winter Electrical Safety Tips
Winter is that time of year when home fires are the most likely. It makes sense, too, when you consider how much more time we spend indoors. We also light more candles, use our fireplaces more, and consume more electricity, too. All of which means an added degree of caution is needed to help protect [...]
How to Prevent Home Water Damage
If you’ve ever had water damage in your home, it’s an experience you’re not likely to forget. On the other hand, as time elapses, most people tend to forget what caused the water damage in the first place. What sticks in the memory is the mess that followed the water leak or intrusion, the amount [...]
How to Choose a Heating & Cooling Company
How much value do you place on the professionals you’ve engaged and built relationships with: doctor, dentist, lawyer, accountant, financial planner, and so on. Well, it’s to your advantage to partner with a professional heating and cooling company you value just as much. Sure, there are plenty to choose from here in Omaha and neighboring [...]
Benefits of a Whole-House Humidifier
If your furnace is robbing your home of much needed moisture, it’s likely you and other family members are experiencing one or more of the following symptoms of “dry house syndrome”: Bloody noses Dry skin Dry throat Itchy, watery eyes Static electrical shock Frizzy, unmanageable hair Added problems with allergies and asthma Overly dry air [...]
Tips for Frozen Pipe Prevention
If you live in fear of frozen water pipes and all the problems they can cause, don’t let it get the best of you. After all, worrying about outside temperatures and what effect they might have on your pipes is no solution. But here’s what is: protecting your pipes from freezing in the first place. [...]
Things You Never Knew About Toilets.
Did you ever look at a toilet and think: “I bet you and your fellow toilets, past and present, have all kinds of interesting stories to tell, so how about sharing one or two with me.” We doubt it, plus that would be just a wee bit weird. Nevertheless, there are numerous documented “fun facts” [...]
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