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About Rick Welter
Recent Posts by Rick WelterAir Conditioning Can Spread Colds and Flu: How to Keep Healthy
Air conditioning can be your best friend in the hot summer months. There’s nothing quite like coming in from the sweltering heat and letting that arctic blast cool you back down to a liveable temperature. But as nice as AC can be, it can also be bad for your health. A poorly maintained HVAC system can spread cold, flu and other respiratory illnesses throughout your home. Here’s how to keep your AC working for you, not against you. Read more › Eliminate Indoor Dry Air This Winter with a Whole-Home Humidifier Keep your family comfy and cozy this winter with a whole-home humidifier. There’s nothing quite like waking up in a cozy warm room while the outdoors is blanketed in snow. Except when you’re waking up with a sore throat and dry skin from dried-out air. While furnaces provide much-needed warmth, they can also lead to over-dry air that can irritate your sinuses and also damage your home and furniture. The solution? Whole-home humidifiers, which return moisture to the heated air to increase comfort levels and protect a home’s finishes. Read more › Fall Home Preparation: 5 Ways to Keep Your Home Comfortable in the Fall
The temperatures are dropping. Frost covers your lawn. There’s a crispness to the air and a subtle orange glow to the sunlight as the leaves change color. All signs point to the arrival of fall. But is it time to fire up the furnace? The forecast has temps ranging from the mid-60s to the lower-40s. You want to know if it’s worth turning on your heating system or if you can go without and save money (and keep your midwestern street cred). Even though colder weather is creeping in, there are still several ways you can prepare your home for fall temps without turning on your furnace, or at least without needing to run it at full blast. Here are a few ways to prepare your home for a cozy fall season. HVAC Terms Defined: Zoning Systems
The HVAC Terms Defined series aims to make the HVAC industry more accessible and understandable to the people who trust us to take care of their home’s heating, cooling, and air. In this post, we’re talking about HVAC zoning systems. Have you ever spent a sleepless night in a too-hot room, only to find that your living room is freezing? If your bedroom’s in the tropics and the rest of the house feels like the North Pole, you could benefit from an HVAC zoning system. Here’s what homeowners need to know about these systems that are designed to keep your whole house habitable. Read more › Central Air Close-up: Suction Line Insulation
It doesn’t take a lot of complicated machinery to generate heat. Rub two sticks together fast enough, and you have a fire that can warm an entire room. Even a home furnace system works on basic principles: Heat source, fan, ducts. Creating cool air, however, is more complicated. An air conditioning (A/C) system requires a cooling fluid, a condenser, an evaporator, a fan… certainly not something you can accomplish with two sticks and a wilderness manual. In the Central Air Close-Up series, we’ll look at specific parts of the A/C system—what they are, what they do and how to keep them maintained. For this one, we’re looking at the suction line and suction line insulation. Read more › |
Rick Welter is President and General Manager of Minneapolis based Ray N. Welter Heating Company, specializing in furnace and air conditioning installation, service and repair. The company has been a family owned-and-operated institution for over 100 years.
Rick has worked for Welter Heating for over twenty years, and in this time he has installed and repaired hundreds of furnaces and air conditioners. He is also a contributor to the Air Conditioning and Furnace Blog and a volunteer fire fighter in Eden Prairie.
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Air conditioning can be your best friend in the hot summer months. There’s nothing quite like coming in from the sweltering heat and letting that arctic blast cool you back down to a liveable temperature.
But as nice as AC can be, it can also be bad for your health. A poorly maintained HVAC system can spread cold, flu and other respiratory illnesses throughout your home.
Here’s how to keep your AC working for you, not against you. Read more ›
Keep your family comfy and cozy this winter with a whole-home humidifier.
There’s nothing quite like waking up in a cozy warm room while the outdoors is blanketed in snow. Except when you’re waking up with a sore throat and dry skin from dried-out air.
While furnaces provide much-needed warmth, they can also lead to over-dry air that can irritate your sinuses and also damage your home and furniture.
The solution? Whole-home humidifiers, which return moisture to the heated air to increase comfort levels and protect a home’s finishes. Read more ›
The temperatures are dropping. Frost covers your lawn. There’s a crispness to the air and a subtle orange glow to the sunlight as the leaves change color. All signs point to the arrival of fall.
But is it time to fire up the furnace? The forecast has temps ranging from the mid-60s to the lower-40s. You want to know if it’s worth turning on your heating system or if you can go without and save money (and keep your midwestern street cred).
Even though colder weather is creeping in, there are still several ways you can prepare your home for fall temps without turning on your furnace, or at least without needing to run it at full blast. Here are a few ways to prepare your home for a cozy fall season.
The HVAC Terms Defined series aims to make the HVAC industry more accessible and understandable to the people who trust us to take care of their home’s heating, cooling, and air. In this post, we’re talking about HVAC zoning systems.
Have you ever spent a sleepless night in a too-hot room, only to find that your living room is freezing? If your bedroom’s in the tropics and the rest of the house feels like the North Pole, you could benefit from an HVAC zoning system.
Here’s what homeowners need to know about these systems that are designed to keep your whole house habitable. Read more ›
It doesn’t take a lot of complicated machinery to generate heat. Rub two sticks together fast enough, and you have a fire that can warm an entire room. Even a home furnace system works on basic principles: Heat source, fan, ducts.
Creating cool air, however, is more complicated. An air conditioning (A/C) system requires a cooling fluid, a condenser, an evaporator, a fan… certainly not something you can accomplish with two sticks and a wilderness manual.
In the Central Air Close-Up series, we’ll look at specific parts of the A/C system—what they are, what they do and how to keep them maintained. For this one, we’re looking at the suction line and suction line insulation. Read more ›
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