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By Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. Manufacturers advertise savings figures in the 10 to 15 percent range on heating and cooling. Those numbers come from the manufacturers’ own studies, and independent research has generally found more modest results. So let me give you the version I’d…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. Equipment usually tells you it’s failing before it fails. The problem is that most homeowners don’t know the vocabulary, so the warning gets ignored until something expensive happens on a Saturday in July. Here’s the translation guide. I’ve sorted it…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. “The thermostat says 74 but it feels awful in here.” I hear that more in Savannah than anywhere I’ve worked. And the frustrating part for homeowners is that the AC is running, the temperature is right, and the house still…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. I can usually tell how close a house is to open water before I look at the address, just from the condition of the outdoor unit. Salt air is hard on air conditioning equipment in a way that genuinely surprises…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. Summer in Savannah isn’t really a heat problem. Plenty of places get hotter than we do. Phoenix hits 110 and people manage. Our problem is moisture. Dew points in the low to mid 70s from June through September mean the…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. Water stain on the ceiling under the attic air handler. A puddle at the base of the unit in the closet. Or the system just quits and the thermostat shows nothing obviously wrong. Nine times out of ten in a…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. There’s something genuinely strange about opening up your air handler in late May and finding a block of ice, while it’s 91 degrees outside. It’s one of the most common calls we run in early summer, and almost every one…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. The system’s running. You can hear it. But what’s coming out of the vents is room temperature or worse, and it’s the first genuinely hot week of May. Work through these in order. Three of them you can fix yourself…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. I’ll be upfront: this is a post about our company. If you’re here looking for troubleshooting help, our blog has plenty of that and you should go read one of those instead. But “veteran-owned” shows up on a lot of…
Continue ReadingBy Bryan Donaldson, Owner, On Time Air. 25+ years of HVAC experience in Savannah, GA. Almost nobody plans to replace an HVAC system. It happens on the hottest week of the year, usually to people who were not sitting on eight thousand dollars waiting for exactly this. That’s the situation financing exists for. It’s also…
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