Roger The Plumber, a residential plumbing and HVAC services company, explains the benefits of creating a home maintenance plan for HVAC and plumbing systems.

You probably take sleep for granted — up until you have a bad night. When you’re up awake begging for sleep to come, you start to wonder what you could possibly do to fall asleep. Well, since you ask . . .  here are a few adjustments you could make to your HVAC settings to improve your sleep quality.

Your furnace has been running faithfully all winter and it likely needs a bit of attention from you in order to continue to function properly. Here are a few simple things you can do to keep your furnace in top shape.

If you’re unhappy with how much you pay per month for heating and air conditioning, then you may want to consider an alternative heating and cooling system: a heat pump system. Compared to furnaces and baseboard heaters, a heat pump system can lower your electricity use for heating by about 50%. Here’s what you need to know about heat pumps before you make the switch.

According to a study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, one in four Americans experience acute insomnia each year. About 75% of these individuals recover without developing chronic insomnia. Chronic sleep deprivation can affect an individual’s daytime performance, negatively impact their mood and increase their risk of  vehicle accidents, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Roger The Plumber, a local plumbing, heating and air conditioning service company, advises homeowners to take  proactive steps to maintain their whole-house humidifier. A properly functioning whole house humidifier can soothe skin and breathing problems, ease symptoms of a respiratory condition, and help homeowners cut energy expenditures while also lowering monthly electric bills.  

Once every 365 days, the world gets a fresh start — a new beginning — and the opportunity to make changes. For homeowners, the home is a great place to start with New Year-inspired changes. After an entire year of sheltering the family, providing water, light and heat, the home deserves a thorough check-up and some upgrades. Here are a few to-do’s every homeowner should have on their list to make sure their home is in top shape.

Roger The Plumber, a local plumbing, heating and air conditioning service company, advises homeowners to not neglect regular maintenance of their home heating system and to take an active role in preventing costly repairs.

Today, all we need to do to heat the home is press a few buttons on our smart home thermostat and — voila! No need to chop wood, heat water or haul coal. The journey to modern day heating has spanned developments across many centuries, from fireplaces to iron stoves to steam heating. Most of us take our HVAC systems for granted, so we decided to share a brief history of what our great-grandparents and their “greats” had to do to stay warm.

Homeowners today have many options to choose from when considering heating and cooling systems. One option is a geothermal heat pump (GHP), also known as geo-exchange. A GHP is an electrically powered refrigeration unit that works to transfer energy to and from the earth.