I want to take a minute to let everyone know who visits my Blog exactly what I’m doing. Honestly, the first thing I am doing is promoting my E-Book, How to Save Money on your Heating Bill. But more importantly I’m trying to raise awareness on the importance of Indoor Air Quality. IAQ is a very real, very big problem in our lives today. IAQ levels in our homes and in our places of employment are sometimes as much as 10 X worse then the outdoor air quality. Take a moment to think about this. 10 X worse. You can see what we are breathing outside but inside is a different story. Next time the sun is shining through your home go over and rub the carpet or pat the arm of your favourite recliner and you’ll see what I’m talking about. It seems to me that the only people that really care about IAQ are the people that are trying to sell you the mega buck purifiers, the mega buck Hepa filters, the mega buck humidifiers and on and on…I work for the largest Power-Vac Company in BC Canada and I take this issue to heart. I have helped out thousands on people on Vancouver Island, both residential and commercial solve these problems effectively with very little cost. I’m here to help you too. My E-Book deals with these problems and allows individual home owners to easily fix the problems themselves. It covers Heat Loss, Filters, Maintenance, Service and a few other ideas on how to improve IAQ with very little cost
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Today I would like to talk about 3 very different homes that I visited
yesterday. The first house was a beautiful 4000 sq ft rancher, on a crawl,
nestled on a 10 acre parcel, two cars in the garage, a new pickup in the
driveway along side a boat and a camper. Inside the house were multiple flat
screen televisions, computers, antiques,etc, etc,etc…
The next house I visited was a brand new house. It was built on the side of a
cliff so from the front it looked like a rancher but once inside I discovered a 3
floor mansion. 6000 sq ft in all sitting on a half acre lot. No cost spared in this
project. The contractor was the owner and he knew what the best of the best
was. Floor to ceiling rock fire places, top of the line heat pump, the best
appliances, 3 big screen plasma TVs, jacuzzi tubs, etc, etc, etc…
My last visit was to a 1300 sq ft home on a crawl. Two bedrooms, one bath, 6
rooms in total on a tiny lot. Not a lot of elbow room because of all their
possessions. One big screen TV in the front with a little TV in the master
bedroom. No extra fringes here but a nice cozy home,etc, etc, etc…
These three homes were located in three different parts of the city but all had
the same problems. POOR I.A.Q and a POOR FILTRATION SYSTEM.
The first house at least had a previous owner that tried to seal his/her system
properly. Unfortunately they used duct tape ( DUCT TAPE IS GOOD FOR
EVERYTHING BUT DUCTS) and now yrs later the tape was hanging down
off of every joint. Huge heat loss but because they are on a crawl space
repairs will be easy. The filter they were using was the least favourable for the
home owner. It was removing between 6-8 % of dust and allergens.The next
two houses didn’t have any type of sealing done. Unfortunately for the
second house all of the ducting except for around the furnace was now under
drywall. In two to five yrs they will start to experience cold rooms
throughout their home due to heat loss. They will either have to live with it,
will be convinced by heating companies that they need a new furnace or they
will have to rip out drywall to get at the ducts in order to seal them. The
owner/builder here didn’t have any filter in his system. The third house was
lucky enough to have their ducting in the crawl space so sealing it will be
easy. They knew a little about filters but were still using a filter system that
wasn’t favourable for them.
In this industry ( Heating, Air Conditioning, Cleaning) the people responsible
for helping customers make the right choices, are not, in my opinion, doing
what’s best for the customer. They are doing what’s best for the company. I
don’t agree with this at all. I see it as my duty to properly inform all my
customers on what’s best for them. In the 6 yrs I’ve been doing this I’ve never
had a sleepless night because I haven’t been honest to a customer, because I
did what was right for my company and not what was right for my customer
or because I over charged a customer. When I go into someones home I give
the respect due to them as customers. They call me in because I’m supposed
to be the expert. Isn’t it time that the companies you are using to solve your
heating and I.A.Q problems adopt this way of thinking. Customer Service,
especially in today’s economy HAS to be first and foremost. I cannot stress
enough how important WORD OF MOUTH ADVERTISING is.
To the next 100 people who visit my Blog @ jjsdream.wordpress .com I will give you my 40 page e-book free. All I ask in return is a review from you on my book.you can pick up my email address from my blog and I look forward to helping you out the best that I can
