Blog Tag: Energy Efficiency

Whether you’re a new homeowner or a long-time homeowner, there are home maintenance projects that you need to perform either annually or more frequently. We have 5 money-saving home maintenance projects that you may well be aware of, or projects you may have forgotten to perform. 

These projects could save you money simply because they are ones that seal your house up for efficiency or because they protect areas of your home you may not have thought about recently. 

5 Money-Saving Home Maintenance Projects

You don’t want to wake up one day to an unexpected project like a flooded basement, leaking roof or broken HVAC unit! That is no way to start a day, weekend, nor is it one that you may have a savings account set aside for to address. 

These projects should be at the top of every homeowner’s to-do list to keep your house as intact as possible.

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Are you losing money every time your home’s heating or air conditioning unit kicks on? Do you even know if your home is energy efficient? Why you should schedule a home energy audit is to find out whether your home is losing energy or whether it’s properly holding in the heated and cooled air that you’re paying for! 

When you schedule a professional energy evaluation with one of our geothermal energy professionals or if you hire a different company you will find ways to: 

1. Reduce energy usage
2. Improve the comfort of your home
3. Save money!

There isn’t a lot you need to do to prepare for an energy audit, but if you do these things, you will be better prepared to speak with an energy professional and make the best use of your time with him or her. 

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Aachoo! Is it indoor air allergies? Are you coming down with a cold or the flu? Is your indoor air causing you to cough and sneeze or even have itchy, dry skin? There are many ways in which to clean and purify the air you breath but there are benefits of UV lighting air purification that you may not have been aware of.

If you have an indoor air purification system and are fed up with how it detracts from your home decor and how noisy it is, you may want to consider a switch to a UV lighting air purification system.

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Baby it’s cold outside! Well, maybe not as cold in Englewood, Florida as it is in other parts of the country, but the nights are getting cooler an the benefits of heat pump tech for your pool water cannot be denied.

Florida residents have the benefit of being able to swim all most year-round. That is especially true if you use a heat pump to heat (and in the summer, cool) your swimming pool water. You’ve probably heard about about using heat pumps to heat a home, but did you know they can effectively heat your pool water as well?

Benefits Of Heat Pump Tech For Your Pool Water

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Are you going away for Thanksgiving? Program your thermostat to help save money while you’re away. There is no reason to heat or cool your home if you’re not there to reap the benefits, right? If you have a programmable thermostat you can save money and enjoy your vacation without worry about spending money to heat and cool your house unnecessarily.

A programmable thermostat is ideal for families who work outside of the home all day as well. You can “set it and forget it” and know you’re not heating or cooling the home while you’re away. If you don’t need to maintain regular heat or cooling levels and your house is empty you can save money and your home will be more energy efficient.

Reduce energy consumption. Save fossil fuels. Save money on your family’s heating and cooling bills. That’s a win all day when you have a programmable thermostat!

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It’s almost time for residents of Englewood, Florida to move their living back indoors for the autumn and winter months of the year. That means you will be closing the windows and doors and breathing the indoor air. The geothermal professionals from Symbiont Service work with homeowners and have come up with 5 ways to make your Florida home more dust-free.

If your indoor air isn’t clean, you may experience allergy-like symptoms, coughing and sneezing. Make sure your indoor air is healthy and as dust-free as possible this winter season.

 5 Ways To Make Your Florida Home More Dust-Free

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Hurricane season is in full force in Florida and will remain that way until November when hurricane season is considered “officially” over. Residents of the Gulf Coast are currently preparing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Michael and many areas are under evacuation orders. How to prepare for a hurricane is something that needs to be done prior to the evacuation order, but there is still time to protect yourself, your family and your belongings. 

There still may be time to prepare yourself for the arrival of Hurricane Michael, but time is of the essence. For individuals who live in hurricane-prone areas, keep these tips at hand year-round to assure you are always as safe and prepared as you can be. 

How To Prepare For A Hurricane

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Have you ever wondered, was your geothermal heating and cooling unit properly installed? It’s something that is normal for you to ask because you’re taking the word of the installer that everything is going along well and that the unit is properly installed. There is no reason not to believe the installer, but at Symbiont Service we know that our customers like that we go “above and beyond” when it comes to installation and sharing educational information with them throughout the process.

Why is geothermal beneficial for homeowners and commerical property owners/operators?

A geothermal heating and cooling system is one of the most energy efficient ways to heat and cool a home and swimming pool. It is vastly different from conventional units and that leads to many questions from customers weighing the cost vs benefit of the installation of a geothermal heating and cooling system.

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When you live in Englewood, Florida and have a swimming pool there, the heat to warm the pool water is plentiful and, best of all, free! Florida swimming pool owners benefit from the heat of the day even on days when it’s cool because the air will still retain ambient heat. The ambient heat can be converted to more than 100,000 BTUs to effectively heat your pool water when you use an air-source heat pump system.

How do heat pumps work? 

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Now that 2017 is wrapping up and 2018 is fast approaching you may be wondering, “is it time to upgrade your heating & cooling systems?” It is a personal decision as well as an economical one. Whether you’re finding that your heating and cooling bills have risen in the past season or if you can “just tell” that it’s not working as efficiently as it should, it might be time to call in a #geothermal professional to provide a complementary on-site inspection of your heating and cooling systems and give you insight as to the benefits and potential cost savings of upgrading to more energy efficient equipment and upgrading the heating and cooling systems to geothermal.

The Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency founded the Energy Star program in the 1990s as a way to protect the environment and reduce energy usage. They did this by having bright blue Energy Star labels placed on consumer products that met the strict energy guidelines the agency set forth. Consumers could tell, at a glance, whether the product they were going to buy were energy efficient.

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