When it comes to your heating system, you really cannot go wrong with proper annual maintenance (furnace repair, mainentance & cleaning). While it may seem like an unnecessary expense, especially if your systems are relatively new, you will save a lot in the long run if you pay that small fee once a year for each system.

During a maintenance visit, a technician can thoroughly clean out your heating or cooling system and check all parts to make sure they are not showing signs of excessive wear and tear. If they do find a problem or a part that needs to be replaced, they will be able to make the necessary repairs quickly and you will not have to worry about calling someone out later for a costly emergency furnace repair visit in the middle of the night or when its -25 degrees below and you have no heat!

Also, catching problems early like this means that furnace repairs will likely involve fewer parts and cost much less than they would if you let the problem go and it became more widespread. The truth is that your heating system can continue to work when one or another of its parts is not working correctly, but...

Do You Realize the Importance of Consuming Purified Water Instead of Tap Water?

Tap water is filled with multiple types of impurities such as synthetic chemicals, toxic heavy metals, parasites, chlorines, chloramines, and thousands more compounds that can threaten your health. Consuming tap water on a daily basis can be devastating for your body.

The EPA has reported estimating 9,300 cases annually in North America where bladder cancer has been a direct result by consumption of chlorinated by-products. That means that people drinking tap water have a slightly higher risk to obtain cancer in their lifetime then those who are drinking purified water.

Spring Air Conditioner Maintenance Guide

Prepare Your A/C Unit Before the Heat Rolls In

Spring can be a hectic time for a homeowner, but the annual air conditioner check up should never be left out of the (endless) to-do list of maintenance chores of the responsible homeowner. Unfortunately, most of us wait until the first heat wave to crank the old air conditioning unit, and more often than not, an unpleasant surprise awaits those who procrastinate. Local air conditioning contractors are busy during the hottest months, so to get in on the most convenient service and best air conditioning repair discounts, time your service call between March and May

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Central Air Conditioner 7 Point Check List

1. Physically inspect the surroundings of the air conditioning unit. Cut down shrubs and weeds, along with other plants that have sprung up around the unit. This essential step ensures that the unit will manage to suck in sufficient amounts of outside air to cool and blow inside the house.
2. Turn on the air conditioning unit on the first day that the temperature hits 16-18 degrees in April or May, and let it run for about 60 minutes. Detecting problems and scheduling proper air conditioning repairs and even replacing a faulty unit will be painless when it is still relatively cool outside and HVAC companies are not running around from house to house tackling emergency calls.
3. Check the air filter, and change it if necessary. Some air filters may need to be replaced every year, whereas permanent air filters only require annual cleaning for...
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Yes that's right, If you have received your Ontario Energy Audit you have until march 31st to get your all your projects done and proved by your second energy home audit. For those of you that have not yet had an energy audit and want to get in on the grants you will have to act quickly.

If you're in Barrie, Innisfil, Angus, Oro or anywhere close to those areas and you are looking to do a heating or Air conditioning or tankless water heater project, we can help you and set up a quick Home Audit to get you registered but as long as it's before the 30th of March 2011.

We would like to re-iterate that the 2011 HEATING & COOLING INCENTIVE does not provide incentives for heat pumps or geothermal heat pump systems, air handlers, or programmable thermostats. Central air conditioning systems which meet the minimum SEER & EER ratings as per the ENERGY STAR requirements, will qualify for the cooling incentives. ECM equipped, fully variable, high efficiency furnaces that are natural gas, propane, oil or electric (marketed and sold as electric furnaces), qualify for the heating incentive under the HEATING & COOLING INCENTIVE. As these system listings are provided to HRAI by the manufacturer directly, if you suspect that a piece of equipment should be considered for the incentive, please forward any inquiries to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and we will attempt to have it confirmed and added as soon as possible.

At Ardent Heating & Air, we have been using our polar bear friend as our mascot since the company was launched almost 8 years ago, before the polar bear was so hugely popularized by recent movies and before it became the “poster animal” for the Global Warming and Climate Change Movements. We even had one of our customer service representatives give him a name that fit well and tied into our company name - “Ardie” the polar bear.

We chose to use the polar bear because...

A common question that we get may times a year is "how do I light my fireplace" well I am pleased to help everyone out. On every fireplace there is a gas valve usually in the bottom section of the fireplace & on the gas valve you will see a knob that points to 3 settings –ON – OFF PILOT.

 If your Fireplace has an igniter then you do not have to remove the Glass however if your fireplace does not have an igniter (See "Note" at bottom as to what a igniter looks like) you will have to remove the glass in order to light the pilot.

STEP ONE- Turn the gas valve to the "PILOT" position and...

Hi everyone, I wanted to just give a brief description what a DC variable speed motor is and how it can benefit you. A DC Variable speed motor is a motor that runs on Direct Current (DC) which is identical to what your car battery or the AA batteries in your remote control for your TV run on. You may be now thinking "does a DC furnace runs on batteries???" The answer is no. Dc furnaces have what's called a built in Converter that actually converts your household AC (Alternating Current) power that you use to power items such as your refrigerator or hair dryer's etc. into DC Power so that the Motor will run.