Cold Outside? These Tips Can Keep Your House Toasty Warm

Keeping your home draft-free and evenly heated is easy with a few steps that anyone can take whether you choose to DIY or call your local HVAC maintenance professionals. Conditioned indoor air gives your whole family the comfort and well-being that only an optimal heating system can provide. Consider these tips to create the perfect cold weather haven that helps keep winter colds, coughs and weather-related illnesses at bay:

Install a Programmable Thermostat

Today’s thermostats are smarter than ever before, and they allow you complete control over the state of your indoor air. Programmable functions make it a breeze to choose the temperature and humidity level for up to one week at a time. Amazingly, some thermostats allow different settings selections for each room. People who take the quality of their home air seriously love the all-inclusive control that a one-step thermostat module offers. Notable features of a basic programmable thermostat include:

• Large backlit digital display
• Energy-saver setting features
• Displays filter replacement reminders
• Day, night and weekend programming controls
• Automatic switching between heating and cooling

Advanced thermostats that are programmable come in an array of decorator colors and include features such as:

• Intuitive display prompts
• One-button easy selector
• Settings for humidity control
• Settings for ventilation control
• Intelligent temperature control
• Added data like time and outdoor temperature
• Computerized switching between heating and cooling

The Humidifier Plays a Key Role In Winter Comfort

During the winter, inside air can become dry and full of static electricity, which can wreak havoc with everything from your hair to your wood furniture. Additionally, air that maintains the right level of moisture, or humidity, helps us breathe easier and fight viral and bacterial colds and flu. Alternately, when the temperature outside heats up in the summer excess moisture can call for controlled balance between ventilation and humidity. This is why it is important for homes in virtually every climate to have a basic humidifier as part of their HVAC system. Moisture is driven into the home’s air ducts by either the HVAC fan or the furnace blower, resulting in indoor air that is much more breathable.

Cold winter weather is nothing to sneeze at when your home is an evenly heated oasis for the whole family. For more great tips and weatherization ideas, give the friendly HVAC maintenance folks at Assurance Heating & Air Conditioning a call today. Your family will thank you for it!

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