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Boy has it been a busy year for GreenHomes America!
Young’s Air Conditioning of Los Banos, California came on board before the start of the New Year. Young’s is a family business with strong roots in Los Banos and a reputation as the area’s leading...
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Homeowners save money making home more efficient
Nothing new here! But here is a news report featuring our very own A. Johnson Heating Cooling and Plumbing on an energy assessment in a home in eastern New York. Video Link:...
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Have a Heart
Maybe you have a great HVAC company that services your equipment. It’s not always the easiest thing to do, and kudos if you’ve found a good one. With a good provider I like service agreements...
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Energy Tax Credits for 2013: Available again!
One good result from the end of the year fiscal cliff hanger is an extension of the residential energy tax credit. If you haven’t used it in the past, all the way back to 2006, there is a $500 tax...
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Welcome Gundlach’s! New to GreenHomes but 100 years in Business!
It is an honor and a pleasure to welcome our latest partner Gundlach’s Plumbing & Sheet Metal to the GreenHomes America network where we can truly help fulfill their statement, “today’s...
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Ice Dams and Chainsaws or You May be Right, They May be Crazy….
Don’t try this at home! Chain saws and snow blowers don’t belong on roofs, and I would suggest you don’t either, especially in the winter. These guys are clearly…ahem, professionals. One obvious down...
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Do you need a Dehumidifier?
As we look to improve our homes and the air in it, taking control of the airways are very important. Come wintertime, we often struggle with comfort in more ways that just staying warm. Sometimes it...
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BAM! Home Performance on Steroids
If you could reduce your energy bills by more than 50% would you? In Syracuse, New York, our office has been working on ways to excel at making your home more energy efficient. Call it Home...
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Mandatory Common Sense
We often preach “reduce first” as the sensable approach for homeowners who are looking at installing expensive renewable energy. It just makes sense. If it costs a lot to install solar panels, make...
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Asthma? Indoors is not Always a Safe Haven!
June is upon us and in some parts of the country we are opening windows in others, closing them up. Asthma awareness month, the month of May, is over but I feel it’s a subject always worth talking...
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Taking a home for a test drive
When you shop for a car, you can see it on the lot or the showroom floor, same goes for most retail things, new clothing, or a book. You can even find a modular home on a sales lot, but it’s still...
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Home Energy Makeovers and Hard Choices, the Good Kind!
Our good friends at Allbritten Plumbing Heating and Air, a GreenHomes location in Fresno CA, had to make some hard decisions this summer, but doing the right thing was not one of them. After receiving...
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Money, Good Health and a Comfortable Home, We Have Solutions!
Why Get an Energy Audit? Watch this Video….
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Home is where the Heart is: Helping a home, Helping a Family
I often make the parallel between the “health” of our homes, to the health of ourselves. A cooling or heating system can be like our hearts, and the ductwork like the arteries branching out. The...
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Set Phasors on Stun! Scottie, Warp Power Up to Full Capacity!
It was reported recently that some bright folks have figured out that if you watch the current of the power grid with phasor measurement units (picture colorful layers of EKG displays),it will reveal...
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Home Energy Makeover: In their own words
The home’s air conditioning had not worked for quite some time. Because of their son’s condition, air conditioning & heating are a priority. But as any good home performance job should go, the...
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Good Equipment Needs Good Air Distribution
Duct work, before and after. According to the America Lung Association, the indoor air in an average home is 10 times more polluted than outside air. Instead of treating the...
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Reduce first!
Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, the call for environmental responsibility, is well known. The demonstration home in San Diego, I’ve been discussing over in the last few months, has been a great success...
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What really happened? And is that cabin insulated? The energy audit of 1623.
This image is a classic one, and even though it’s titled the First Thanksgiving, it wasn’t called that then or immediately afterwards. The Pilgrims likely didn’t dress like that nor did the Wampanoag...
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Cutting edge science! Circa 1891
This time of year our homes are often closed up tight and we can get a little stir crazy by it. Dr. Smith, pictured in the print, subjected himself to this voluntarily, we find out in a text book on...
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