The CleanAlert Blog

Although still a couple months away, now is the time to begin preparing your home and yourself for the winter months.

Keep Old Man Winter at bay with these 19 winter energy saving tips for the home that you can complete during fall. 

Topics: Home Maintenance, Residential

Looking for helpful resources to discover news and tips about saving energy in your home? You've come to the right place. CleanAlert's team of market researchers have scrawled the internet to find the most popular (and helpful) posts about home energy savings in the past 12 months.

Topics: Energy Efficiency, Home Maintenance

The summer is in full swing. Here are seven essential home maintenance checks you should make this season.

Topics: Home Maintenance, Residential

Regular maintenance of your air conditioning systems is an easy way to keep it working in great condition. Save money and avoid having to call in the HVAC repair guy by following our step by step guide to maintaining your home air conditioning unit. These instructions are for a whole-home air conditioning or heat pump unit.

Topics: Home Maintenance, Residential

For most Americans, home energy consumption is a big priority. Whether it’s about saving money or looking out for the environment, it just makes good sense to make our homes as energy efficient homes possible.

Topics: Home Air Filters, Home Maintenance, homeowners

Ensuring that you keep tabs on your HVAC maintenance and learning to do the basics yourself can assist in allowing your system to last longer and save you money down the line.

Topics: Home Maintenance, HVAC, homeowners

As with any highly skilled trade, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors and technicians have their own industry language. They use a variety of concepts and terms that most of us do not deal with on a day-to-day basis. A good HVAC contractor will take the time to explain everything to you when installing a new system or performing maintenance, but it doesn't hurt to have some basic knowledge so that you can ask intelligent questions and ensure the efficiency of your equipment. Here's a list of some of the terms you may confront.

Topics: Home Maintenance, HVAC, home heating, homeowners, home cooling

It’s a good idea to hire an HVAC company to inspect and do maintenance on your system every fall and spring. They’ll do things like inspect and clean the wiring and mechanisms of the unit, which is bit more challenging for the average homeowner. Handier homeowners can do many of these things themselves, but it’s sometimes better to leave it to the professionals.

Topics: Home Maintenance, HVAC, maintenance operations

There are several routine household maintenance chores that pay off more than keeping a maintenance schedule for your air conditioning unit. You’ll give yourself the best chance of staying cool all summer and avoiding emergency breakdowns, but you’ll also save money on your energy bills.

Topics: FilterScan, Home Air Filters, Home Maintenance, Air Filter Monitoring

With spring around the corner, you can almost hear the united groan from allergy sufferers foreseeing the usual problems. The winter respite is over. Outdoor triggers, such as pollen, will soon come to the surface and begin to irritate sinuses. If you suffer from allergies or know someone who does, you already know what this is like.

Topics: Home Air Filters, Indoor Air Quality, Home Maintenance, spring, allergies