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3 Signs You Need a New Heater for the New Year

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

How was your New Year celebration? Did you have fun with family and friends or did you enjoy a quiet night indoors? Whether you stayed up until the clock struck 12 or not, we hope you were able to celebrate just the way you wanted. What’s more, we hope that your heater headed into the new year just as well as you did.

Unfortunately, this time of year, many homes start to notice that their heater is having problems. Big problems. We hate to be a downer but if this sounds familiar, it may mean you need a new system. On the bright side, this means you get to check off “Replace my faulty old heater” from your New Year’s Resolutions!

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It Is Time to Schedule Your Heater Tune-Up

Monday, September 27th, 2021

Things are getting cooler, and honestly, it is a relief to put on a sweater rather than being sweaty. While many of us are enjoy the crispiness in the air lately, we want to make sure that you are not caught off guard when things get uncomfortably cold. Your heater needs to be ready for the day that the sweaters just aren’t enough and you need some extra warmth. A tune-up is just the thing that will guarantee your heating system is ready to go.

Maintenance is a highly important heating service in Spokane Valley, WA that we recommend everyone has done around this time of year. If you haven’t gotten this service taken care of just yet, let us explain why you should schedule it as soon as possible.

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What Is a Heat Recovery Ventilator?

Friday, January 16th, 2015

Have you ever wished you could give your heating system a boost without having to supplement it with a fireplace or woodstove?

If so, you may want to consider the installation of a heat recovery ventilator. Not only does this device help with heating, it also helps improve your home’s ventilation. Installation of a heat recovery ventilator should only be handled by a professional heating services company in Spokane, so call the people you can count on: ACI Northwest.

How It Works

A heat recovery ventilator is a pretty ingenious little device. What an HRV does is apply the thermal energy from your outgoing, stale, heated air to incoming fresh air. Applying this thermal energy to incoming fresh air pre-treats the new air, making it warmer while also keeping it fresh. The process is simple: the HRV exhausts your used indoor air to the outside, but the air doesn’t head straight outdoors; it goes through the core of the HRV, which contains a heat exchanger.

Inside the core of the HRV, the incoming fresh air stream and outgoing stale air stream exchange in the core, and the heat energy from the outgoing air is applied to the incoming fresh air. This pre-treated air then moves directly into your HVAC system, where it is warmed further and dispersed to your living spaces. The HRV is installed as part of your heating system, so the addition is seamless.

Benefit of an HRV

There are several benefits to installing an HRV that are worth considering:

Energy efficiency – the pre-treating action of the incoming air helps boost energy efficiency because it takes some of the work load off your heating system to do so.

Continuous fresh air – with an HRV, you won’t have to worry about poor ventilation as fresh air will come into your home continuously.

Less stress on your heating system – your heating system won’t have to work as hard to heat your home, which reduces the stress and wear and tear.

Increase comfort – the HRV helps balance the humidity level in your home and provides more even heating.

If you’ve been looking for a way to improve the energy efficiency of your heating system, call ACI Northwest and speak to one of our heating services experts in Spokane.

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