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Heating and A/C Equipment Installation – The System Analysis

Looking to purchase a new furnace or air conditioner? Horizon Services – the premier plumbing, heating and air conditioning services company in DE, PA and MD – explains how performing a thorough pre-assessment of your home and current heating and cooling equipment early can save you time, money and aggravation later! Continue reading

High Efficiency Boilers

Mod-Con or modulating-condensing boilers are the current standard for high efficiency natural or propane-fired space heating boilers. Modulation then allows for less-than-full-fired operation at thermal efficiencies (the burner flame actually goes up and down controlled by water temperature demand) in the mid to high 90s% (many reaching 95% AFUE!). Old-fashioned low efficiency (88% or lower) boilers are full-fire (a few actually fire in two stages) but can’t be controlled to the same extent o Continue reading

A Green Nights Sleep at Cavallo Point Lodge and Spa

Sometimes being green means taking on the “less is more” philosophy. Such would be the case with the Cavallo Lodge over in Sausalito. For the recently opened lodge, about half of the current lodge rooms they converted from the previous officers quarters, military barracks and the like. But don’t think of this place like Full Metal Jacket but rather Organic Cotton Robe. We visited there a few months ago for the Going Green conference but we didn’t get a chance to survey the property much. This Continue reading