When temperatures stay above 80, the last thing you’re probably thinking about is your furnace. You’re probably thinking about sipping on a cocktail poolside. But you should be thinking about your furnace. Winter Is Coming While the dog days of summer might make fall feel like a far-off… View More
If you think you’re A/C might need attention, don’t leave it! We’re just coming out of winter, and the furnace is now becoming a topic of the past. You might have been wondering how efficient your furnace is, and whether or not it’s keeping you and your family warm. Even today, when we are well into April,… View More
One philosophy: if you’re going to do it, do it right. Four days from now, Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots face off in the 2017 Super Bowl. It’s being billed as “the biggest Super Bowl ever.” The Super Bowl has been running for 50 years now and, while it’s true that it seems to get bigger and glitzier every year,… View More
Why an Illinois home can be drier than the Mojave Desert Humidity is the amount of water vapor present in the air, and we usually talk about relative humidity because the amount of water vapor the air can hold varies with the temperature. (That’s why, in temperatures of 10oC, relative humidity of 40% doesn’t feel particularly… View More
Illinois weather this weekend will be cold. Stay safe, and stay warm. Weathermen have all sorts of expressions to explain fairly simple things. If you live in northern Illinois, you know all about weathermen. You also know all about fairly simple things – like the kind of cold, exacerbated by wind chill, that can make you feel as though someone… View More