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Spring maintenance checklist for your home this summer

Jun 6, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

The days are getting longer, the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming, and the snow is melting. The kids are playing baseball once again, and cookouts can’t be too far away. At last, after a long, gray winter, Spring is here. It’s time to get out into the fresh air, stroll through town, or hike your favorite path. But when you get home, don’t forget to spare some time to freshen up the house. Winters can be harsh on your home.
Are Washer Dryer Combos the Next Big Thing in Laundry?

Mar 6, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

For many people, one of the quietly joyful moves into full-fledged adulthood is the day you move into an apartment or home with a washer and dryer. No more hoarding quarters, no more long afternoons sitting around the laundromat while friends are out enjoying themselves, no more folding your underwear in public. Sitting on your own couch watching TV while the washer and dryer chugs away in the background is one of the great, under appreciated luxuries of modern life.
What to Expect from a Home Energy Audit

Feb 6, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

Those drafty windows and those exorbitant power bills finally got to you. You’ve decided to invest in your home, your comfort, and the future. You’re going to turn your home into a lean, green, energy-efficiency machine. So, what’s your first step? If you’re really interested in efficiency, then learning what the most inefficient parts of your home are and fixing those first is your best strategy. And that means a hiring a home energy auditor to create a complete energy report on your home.
Using Big Data to Heat Homes

Jan 30, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

Even as we all wrestle with the consequences of global warming, it can feel pretty discouraging that so much of the energy consumed in the world is used to make things hotter. For industry, processes like smelting iron, making concrete, or processing food all take lots of heat and big gulps of power. For consumers, it’s keeping our homes cozy and making our meals hot that drive our power bills.
A Comprehensive Guide

Jan 26, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

For most homeowners, the big gray electrical panel in the back hallway or in the attached garage is the last thing they want to think about. Just leave it alone to do whatever it is it does and go ahead and enjoy the rest of your life. But at some point, you’ll probably need to deal with it. The lights stop working in one room, the AC shuts down, or the dryer just won’t go on. The first place to try to solve those problems? Your electrical panel.
A Comprehensive Guide to Selecting Batteries for Your Home

Jan 23, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

Snowstorms, nor’easters, hurricanes, wildfires, floods—even a random car accident. There’s always something lurking out in the fringes that could bring down your electric supply. And more and more often, homeowners are seeking enough energy independence so they can keep the lights on during a grid outage. For many, that has meant looking at sustainable energy systems such as a solar array.
Their Role and Evolution in Cooling Technology

Jan 22, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

Throughout most of human history, generating warmth was a simple task. Early humans mastered the use of fire, requiring just a spark and some dry wood to produce heat. However, cooling things down was a different story, akin to the complexity of time travel. It wasn't until the mid-1800s that the ability to create artificial ice became possible, followed by Willis Carrier's invention of air conditioning sixty years later.
Energy Efficiency

Jan 18, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

Many of us have that sci-fi dream: The garage door opens even before our sleek EV approaches it. We get out and our hands are full of packages, but the front door unlocks without a key, and the lights come up as we enter. We notice that the air temperature and humidity are perfect, even as we know the house had been kept at a much more climate-friendly temperature the whole time we were gone. The music we were enjoying on our ride starts playing over the sound system.
Strengthening Our Power Grid Against Natural Disasters

Jan 16, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

Does it seem like there are more natural disasters these days? Or that the power goes out more often than it used to? You’re not imagining things. According to the World Meteorological Association, we are getting more natural disasters, and they are more intense. That bad weather along with an aging electrical grid translates into more outages too.
Window Heat Pumps Bring Efficiency to Renters and Smaller Spaces

Jan 14, 2024 | ohmconnect.com | Daren Wang

Suddenly, heat pumps are everywhere. From being recommended by the United Nations as a major tool in the fight against climate change to helping dry your clothes more efficiently, they are getting all kinds of attention right now. But people tend to think that the only way to cool or heat our homes with a heat pump is to use a whole-home system. And unless you are building a new home, that would mean replacing an existing HVAC system.