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Plumbing Winterizing: Preparing Your Home for Winter

As the weather becomes colder and winter begins, it’s important to winterize your home’s plumbing. Plumbing winterizing helps to prevent your pipes from freezing and bursting, which can cause devastating water damage and costly repairs. When temperatures drop and water freezes within a pipe where a faucet is closed, pressure builds and water can end

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Safe Home Heating: The Importance of a Furnace Safety Check

It’s that time of year again to check up on the condition of your furnace before cold weather arrives for winter.  Each fall, homeowners are advised to have their furnaces inspected to check for certain issues that could cause inefficient or unsafe heating, leading to breakdowns, high energy costs, and potentially dangerous Carbon Monoxide leaks.

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How Ductwork Can Affect Heating and Cooling Performance

Think about your ductwork as the lungs of your home comfort system, taking air in and delivering it back to rooms from the furnace or air conditioner in order to heat or cool your home. Just as the human body’s lungs have everything to do with breathing, ductwork can impact the performance of air passing

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Gillece Sponsors South Hills First Tech Team, Tech-No-Logic

Gillece is excited to be a sponsor of a FIRST Tech Team based in the South Hills called Tech-No-Logic. The team is comprised of local eighth and ninth-grade students who are interested in FIRST Robotics. FIRST, a non-profit public charity designs programs to motivate young people to pursue opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math.

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How to Control the Humidity in Your Home

The level of comfort in your home has a lot to do with humidity- when there is either too much or too little. Humidity can be a good thing for your home in the winter but bad in the summer; the goal is to find the right balance, which usually falls between 30 and 50

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