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DOE Passes New Heating Standards
by Angela D. Harris
December 17, 2007

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) approved new heating equipment standards for residential furnaces and boilers. The new standards increase the minimum natural gas furnace efficiency level to 80 percent as opposed to the current 78 percent AFUE. It also bumped natural gas boilers from 80 to 82 percent; oil furnaces from 78 to 82 percent; and oil boilers from 80 to 83 percent. The DOE estimates that these amended standards, which become effective in 2015, will save the equivalent of the total amount of energy consumed by 2.5 million American households in one year.

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The Holiday season can hurt your wallet in several ways, including high energy bills.  Just because it’s the holidays doesn’t mean you have to throw energy efficiency out the window though.  The Charlotte Sun Newspaper spoke with the Florida Power and Light Company and had the following festive tips.

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Here are a few things to consider when you notice that your heating/cooling air flow does not feel consistent throughout the house. 

1.  Check you air vents. 

- A lot of times you can close of the vents for rooms that seem to heat or cool very easily to try to push more air to the other rooms.  You may even want to close off dampers to rooms that you are not using.

2.  Insulation

- When was last time you had your attic or walls insulated?  You may be losing  a lot of heating/cooling because your home is not properly insulated.

3.  Windows

- How old are you windows?  A lot of times the older windows have leaks throughout the frame.  If you feel a lot of drafts near windows, you may want to re-caulk to seal the windown frame from air leaks.

4.  Doors

- If you notice drafts around doors; installing weatherstrip will also help seal air leaks.

If you try these things and notice that you are still havings problems, you will want to contact a FLAME consultant to do a heat/gain heat-loss test on your home to determine what solutions will help you.

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The Energy Experts at Flame Heating, Cooling, and Electrical have been extensively trained through an international group known as the Comfort Institute.  Based in
Washington state the Comfort Institute is a company dedicated to helping homeowners achieve a safe, healthy, clean, comfortable and affordable indoor living environment.  Flame Energy Experts are in constant contact with the Comfort Institute and are continually offered new training experiences.

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During my tenure at Flame Furnace I have had the priviledge of becoming a Rotarian member.  Rotary is a great opportunity to give back to the local community as well be apart of a global effort to better society.  Flame Heating & Cooling has been involved with the Rotary for 40 years and is a company that is dedicated to helping people with their heating, cooling and electrical needs as well as being active in the community.

The Object of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

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Vision, Mission and Values

Our Vision:
An ethical marketplace where buyers and sellers can trust each other.

Our Mission:
BBB’s mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. BBB accomplishes this mission by:

• Creating a community of trustworthy businesses
• Setting standards for marketplace trust
• Encouraging and supporting best practices
• Celebrating marketplace role models, and;
• Denouncing substandard marketplace behavior

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Window leaks are some of the most common sources of air leakage in a home.  I find that all windows have some leakage, no matter how old or new they may be.  Some leakage can be stopped however by simply making sure all your windows are latched down tightly and firmly sealed with weather stripping. 

But what can be done about moisture on windows and where does it come from?  Here’s an explanation and a few suggestions from Energy Star.

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The Federal Energy Management Program is a division of the United States Department of Energy.  It “works to reduce the cost and environmental impact of the Federal government by advancing energy efficiency and water conservation, promoting the use of distributed and renewable energy, and improving utility management decisions at Federal sites.”

Here are 10 simple things the FEMP reccomends we do to save energy NOW.

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Under the right circumstances a faulty heat exchanger can have serious health effects. In the worst-case scenarios, the CO has lulled everyone in the household into a permanent sleep. This still happens far too often. CO is colourless, and odourless and works very fast in high concentration. A concentration of 1500 PPM can kill in 15 minutes and you may not notice the effects until it’s too late. This makes the furnace the most dangerous appliance you will ever own. When was the last time your dishwasher threatened you and all your family.

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Have you heard this one recently, “You have a cracked heat exchanger and your furnace has to be replaced, today.” Unless you are one of the top 3% of people who have all the money, replacing the furnace is going to hurt the pocket book if you have not planed for it, but it has to be done. Read the rest of this entry »

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