When we spend a lot of time indoors, especially during the cold winter months, indoor air quality becomes as important as comfortable temperatures. Indoor air contains a variety of particulates that can cause or aggravate respiratory conditions. A whole-house HEPA system is an effective weapon against these contaminants. Read More
The comfort level of your home is directly tied to indoor air quality. Achieving ideal home comfort comes from paying close attention to four major characteristics of your indoor air: 
As a source of heating and cooling for your home, heat pumps are extremely efficient and reliable options. When dealing with heat-pump thermostats, it is a good idea to observe some practices that are applicable to heat pumps only. 
Keeping your indoor air well humidified makes a major contribution to your home’s comfort level. Dry indoor air, which is more common in winter, can cause physical discomforts such as itchy skin, irritated eyes, scratchy throats and respiratory issues. Over time, dry air can damage furniture, paneling and flooring. Because dry air absorbs moisture from your skin, it makes you feel colder than the actual temperature of the room. As a result, you may run your heating system unnecessarily high to compensate. 
If you don’t have a zoning system, you have one thermostat controlling the heating and cooling for your entire home. That means the temperature reading in the room with the thermostat is the only one that matters. But rooms on the other side of the house are usually not the same temperature, making it uncomfortable and inefficient when compared to the separate thermostats of a zoning system. -
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