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Electric Furnaces vs Gas Furnaces

Dec 9, 2018

The house is never warming properly, you’re hearing disturbing mechanical grinding from the basement, you’re calling for repairs every other week and your heating system was installed in 1987; it’s time to get a new furnace. Shopping around, you may notice that there...

Evaluating the Efficiency of Your Furnace

Nov 17, 2018

When we were a species of hunter-gatherers, efficiency was important, but not nearly as important as it is now. We would chop wood for fires, but if we chopped too much, or lost some, it wasn’t the end of the world; we just had to go chop more, an inconvenience, not a...

Pets and Your Furnace

Nov 3, 2018

Having a pet is one of life’s great joys. It’s incredible to watch their personalities develop, to form a real bond with a creature who doesn’t even share a language with you, to snuggle up on a cold winter’s night and enjoy their company. As many joys as you can find...

How Faulty Air Conditioning Can Harm Your Home

Oct 6, 2018

The comforts that a well installed HVAC unit can bring to your home are numerous; perfect heating in the winter, a cool retreat in the summertime. Like any piece of technology, however, poorly installed or maintained HVAC units can cause problems; these problems...

The Climate of Winnipeg

Sep 20, 2018

Anywhere you live, it’s likely you’ll need heating or cooling; even on the coast, temperatures can get low enough that a furnace is a must to keep toasty, and in the Deep South life without air conditioning is almost unimaginable. Temperature extremes are hazardous to...

NATE Certification

Sep 17, 2018

One of the many joys of bureaucracy is the need to get a certification to do just about anything. You need permits to cut hair, sell food, and even to busk; while some libertarians might rail against such injustice, regulation is quite helpful to most people....

Energy Efficiency Incentives for Manitobans

Sep 13, 2018

Provincial is a team of qualified Winnipeg air conditioning repair professionals and heating experts. We want your home to be as comfortable as possible; here in Manitoba, the summers are exceptionally hot, with bitter cold winters. This drastic difference in...

Tips For Maintaining Your Furnace Room

Aug 23, 2018

Ah, the furnace room. For many people, this room could be called by many names: The Cat’s Secret Salon, or perhaps The Chamber of Dust. Furnace rooms are often in an inconspicuous corner of the house, and are often used for storing random objects you’ll never look at...

The History of Home Heating

Aug 20, 2018

Home heating has been around since before recorded history; keeping warm, as it turns out, was more important to ancient humans than writing about the hunt. Their “homes” may have been a bit more basic than our own, but they too needed to stay warm when the as-of-then...

Tips for New Homeowners That Want to Upgrade the Air Conditioning System

Aug 8, 2018

Congrats on becoming a homeowner! Maybe it’s your first time being a homeowner, or perhaps you have been in this boat before; in either case, it is vital to be familiar with the HVAC system in your new home.  It will permit you to do the preventative upkeep your HVAC...