Did your furnace act weird last night? Heating season has begun. Usually we receive calls stating that a furnace or boiler has acted weird or was smelling funny and the home owner was concerned. Many times during furnace start up you may get a dust burning smell. Many homes have dust trapped in the duct […]
Like your car or your truck, in order to achieve peak performances you have to tune your furnace up. If you want the most efficiency from your furnace or boiler, you should consider having the heating system cleaned and tuned annually. I hear from customers every heating season that their gas bills are high. With furnaces, we […]
Autumn is upon us and the team at Around the Town team is looking forward to providing service for all our customers throughout the heating season. Big Ed and the team at Around the Town are ready to assist you with your heating problems. From a new furnace to a boiler installation to a filter […]
Boilers can be energy efficient and a good source of comfort heating. The difference between boilers heating with radiators verses forced air heating systems is that boiler with cast iron radiators retain the heat in the radiators much longer due to the latent heat produced by the hot water or steam in the radiators. Because […]
Today’s furnaces can run up to 97% energy efficient. The standard furnace of today is a minimum of 80% efficient. Now, if you have a 20 year or older furnace, you can be sending your hard earned money up the chimney and providing new corporate jets for the gas company Ceo’s. Ask yourself, is that […]
Floods from July created all kinds of havoc in and around the Chicagoland region. Many people lost valuable items because of the floods. If you were a victim of the floods, there is assistance through FEMA. However, you need to act quickly, because the FEMA deadline is October 18 2010. Was your chicago boiler or […]
Is boiler heat becoming a less desirable source of heat? We have seen a small decline in new home construction boiler installations for comfort heating. However, we have seen an increase in boilers in new construction for heating the sidewalks, driveways, and basement floors. We get phone calls from customers who want to remove their […]
Soon the nights will become very chilly, the days will be comfortable. What does this mean to you the residents of Oak Lawn? It should, at the very least, make you think about your furnace or boiler. Old man winter creeps up quickly, and before you know it, you will be moving the thermostat selector […]
Fall is approaching, a few cool evenings have arrived, and this is a good indicator that heating season is near. Your boiler’s or furnace’s thermostat selector switch will be moving from cool to heat. Furnace filters should be checked, and boiler pumps need oiling. Pre-heating season specials will be appearing in the newspapers and on TV […]
We Chicagoans can handle the sleet, cold rain, blowing fierce snowy days and nights and the frigidly cold temperatures, but what we Chicagoans can’t handle, is those high gas bills! You might say how do we avoid the corporate greed of Nicor, Peoples Energy and Nibsco, who charges us to the hilt for warmth from the […]