The holidays are a hectic time of year – while we may dream of sitting cozily by a fireplace after a filling turkey dinner, it takes a lot of preparation to get to that point. So many elements have the potential of going awry when family and friends gather for a...
There’s No Need To Fret Over Broken Appliances
There are better ways to spend one’s precious free time than by trying to conduct haphazard DIY appliance repairs. No weekend should be spent trying to get your refrigerator to turn on or the central heating to actually do its job. This is especially true of precious vacation days – no...
3 Hot Tips For Maintaining Your Furnace
We live in an extremely cold nation. And Toronto is no exception to this truism – it gets extremely cold here. Winters are full of overworked heaters, as a result. After a long summer, we tend to forget just how overused our furnaces were the previous winter, after which we just...
Furnaces Vs. Boilers: What’s Right For You?
If you live anywhere in the northern hemisphere, then during the winter months your heating system is probably the most important tool in your life. While some people may take heating for granted and never think twice about it, we like to encourage our clients to take an active interest...
Draft Dodgers Part Two: Tips For Warming Your Home
In Part one of this two-part post we looked at alternative ways of heating your house – including space heaters and woodstoves – and also looked at a couple of ways to keep your home warm once it's nice and toasty – including draft stoppers and thick curtains. In this...
Draft Dodgers Part One: Tips For Warming Your Home
While many people think that their furnace and central heating system should heat their entire home, often it is advantageous to take a more diversified approach. Surely, your furnace is your workhorse in terms of providing most of the heat you need, but by relying on a series of space...
3 Surefire Ways To Improve Your Winter
With the winter solstice behind us, we're moving towards longer days, and eventually spring. However, with the Christmas party season of December behind us, winter can feel a bit depressing – especially if you don't get a chance to head somewhere hot for a couple weeks. Thus, as we work...
Four Winter Tips For Your Household
Everybody knows about spring cleaning, but does anybody think about winter cleaning? Here in Canada, when we batten down the hatches and turn on our heaters for the winter, we're usually preoccupied with work, getting the kids to school and battling seasonal affective disorder as the days grow quite short....
Straddling The Seasons
Here in our fair city of Toronto, we experienced higher than usual temperatures in the month of September, with some of the hottest days of the year landing right at beginning of the fall season. As Torontonians, we experience extreme swings in the weather, which can be stressful as we...
Keeping It Clean In The Back To School Rush
Everyone knows about Spring Cleaning, it's the most famous time for cleaning in the entire year! But now that summer is starting taper into fall, it's time to start thinking about how you're going to keep your house tidy and dust free on a regular basis once everyone is back...