What happens if your home's air ducts are not 100%? What if your air ducts are broken?

So many Costa Mesa homeowners over the last couple of decades that we have been in business have expressed to me the “So what” factor. “So what” my ducts are made of our asbestos. “So what” my ducts aren’t insulated. “So what” my ducting is not sealed properly. “So what” my electronic air cleaner is throwing sparks. “So what” my furnace firebox is cracked.

Your Costa Mesa heating and air conditioning system is only as strong as it’s weakest part. Like all mechanical appliances your Costa Mesa heating and air conditioning system is going to breakdown. It is going to get dangerous and it is, if it consumes natural gas, going to put out great quantities of carbon monoxide. They all do.

The only real answer to any “So what” question is another question, only that question starts with “what if”. What if you don’t maintain your furnace and you don’t have us clean your firebox? What if your flames are blocked by the rust, dirt and debris and they roll out of the heat exchanger in your Costa Mesa home and what if those flames burn through the gas line attached to your furnaces’ gas valve? Do you have the insurance it is going to take to rebuild your Costa Mesa home? Can you replace those memories? What if someone gets hurt, injured or dies because of lack of maintenance on your furnace? What if a personal injury attorney finds out about the lack of maintenance on your furnace? What if that attorney decides to call it “gross negligence”?

“What if” you don’t maintain those broken ducts in your home or office?

The pictures show some examples and there are more nearly every time you click a link. They are endless. “What if” airflow is blocked to your evaporator coil and it freezes up? Do you have the necessary protection to stop the flow of water from causing mold and mildew damages in your home? The average insurance claim in the State of California now exceeds $25,000 per occurrence for home mold claims. All from a dirty air filter or a crushed piece of ducting in your Costa Mesa home or your Costa Mesa business.

It happens all the time…

We can help with the “What ifs” and we can solve the “So what’s”.

Give us a call. We are experts in furnace maintenance, air conditioning maintenance, duct repair, duct cleaning, indoor air quality and energy efficiency.

We perform commercial air duct cleaning and home air duct cleaning. We remove asbestos bearing ducting and replace it with metal ductwork and class one flexible ducting. We can customize and air treatment plan for your Costa Mesa home or your Costa Mesa business.

 

 

Why is my electric bill so high? Why is my gas bill so high?

Nearly a third of the average utility bill here in Costa Mesa is from heating and cooling. It is easy to see with poorly installed ducting, ductwork that restricts proper airflow, ductwork that is open to the attic or is broken and blowing air under your home, that your utility bills for heating your Costa Mesa home or cooling would become enormous.

That why the focus is on air movement.

Over the years here at The Empire Family we have taught hundreds of people (employees, contractors) the three most important aspects of air conditioning and of heating for Costa Mesa homes and businesses. Those aspects are airflow, airflow and airflow.

Airflow : Your ducting conveys air from your Costa Mesa home or business across the firebox or the evaporator coil. This is airflow number one. Without ductwork being clean, filters being clean, the air being the correct amount your system suffers. Perfect airflow will be just enough airflow across the firebox or exchanger and the evaporator coil to extract all the heat or cooling from it. This means it will maximum the dollars that you are spending on utility bills. Poor airflow means you run your furnace longer and you run your air conditioner longer without the benefits of comfortable air. We can fix that.

Airflow: The air has to make it back into the living area. If your ducting is allowing the air to leak inside your attic, you will not be benefiting from the electricity and gas that you will be paying for. You are losing money every time you turn on your heating and air conditioning system in your Costa Mesa home or business.

Airflow: The outside condensing coils of your air conditioner need to be corrosion free and clean. Costa Mesa homeowners tend to grow a considerable amount of plants in and around their air conditioners. These must be trimmed to allow cooling air to cool the Freon in the air conditioning system.

 

We are a full service heating, air conditioning, duct cleaning and indoor air quality company specializing in your Costa Mesa interests.

Full service means more than just going through the motions and performing the different tasks required by our Costa Mesa clientele. It means more than duct cleaning, duct repair, duct replacement, furnace repair, heater repair, air conditioning repair, installing new air conditioning, adding Freon and fixing motors.

Full service means excellent service after the sale.

This means that just about everything we do comes with up to a 10 years parts and labor guarantee for free. You get this guarantee for free, no money whatsoever, because we know that if we fix it right the first time we won’t have to come back and repair it again. You will only ever need to invest once with your Costa Mesa heating and air conditioning repair and isn’t that the way it should always be?

We provide expert repairs and installation for our Costa Mesa clientele including: floor furnaces, wall furnaces, electric heating, water furnaces, hydronic furnaces, ducts, ducting, gravity furnaces, forced air furnaces, force air heaters, gravity heaters, wall heaters, floor heaters, air conditioners, air conditioning systems, heat pumps, electric air conditioning, air ducts, air filters, air cleaners, hepa air cleaners, electronic air cleaners, freon systems, Freon, Puron all thermostats and more.

Some of the brands that work on are: Ameristar, York, Coleman, Carrier, Day & Night, Payne, Bryant, American Standard, Premier, Intertherm, Bard, Samsung, Trane, Armstrong, Rheem, RUUD, WeatherKing, Goodman, Janitrol, Nordyne, Amana, Comfortmaker, Heil, Kenmore, Sears, Tempstar, Lennox, Fedders, Ducane, Consolidated Industries, Mitsubishi, and much more.