Indoor Air Quality April 8, 2010

We have a potential Seattle area HVAC client that has some pretty intensive allergies. Because of this fact they are very careful bringing in harmful products into their home. What is normal to most folks could literally lead to severe alergic reactions for this client. Our company is working with them to identify potential toxins [...]

Seattle Radiant Heat Contractor….. April 8, 2010

Hello again, The title today reflects a growing game in the new World of search engine optimization (SEO) for short. More and more-people are throwing away the traditional methods of searching for service related businesses (ie the yellow pages) and instead turn to Google, Yahoo or MSN and ‘search’ on key words they are interested [...]

Your thermostat doesn’t know whether you’re comfortable or not. April 7, 2010

There’s an old HVAC joke where an engineer is troubleshooting a heating system over the phone with a homeowner and asks the question, “Are you comfortable right now?”, to which the homeowner replies, “I don’t know, let me check my thermostat.” We perceive that the little white box on the wall has magical powers to [...]

Geothermal Heating and Cooling- It’s affordable, it works, and it’s reliable February 4, 2010

I got my start in Geothermal about 7 years ago when a call came it to fix a ‘mystery’ radiant floor heating system. Upon arrival I immediatly recognized the system as a Geothermal heat pump. The fix was simple, the system lost flow and caused an overload. I replaced a few wires and the client [...]

Solar PV Job July 2, 2009

Mitchell Mechanical is in search of an electrician that is interested in running our future solar PV department. The preferred candidate will have their masters electrician license and will also have had experience installing solar PV. We are growing rapidly–and forsee a large # of future jobs integrated with solar PV. This is a huge [...]

Solar Thermal Hot Water System in W. Seattle May 27, 2009

Greetings, This system was installed on my own home in W. Seattle on May 3rd and 4th.  It consists of 2 Viessmann flat plate collectors, 1 Superstor ultra 80 gallon buffer tank with duel coil, 1 Caleffi pump station with I-solar control, mounting racks, hardware and solarflex insulated tubing.  The solar thermal was integrated with [...]

Resources we have found helpful. May 22, 2009

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html (Provides a ballpark estimate of your families green house gas emissions) http://www.dsireusa.org/incentives/index.cfm?CurrentPageID=1&State=WA&RE=1&EE=1 (Shows what energy incentives are available at the Federal, state and local level) http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=products.pr_tax_credits#c3 (Summary of tax credits for homeowners) http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm (A carbon dioxide emission calculator) http://www.myamortizationchart.com/ (Handy mortgage calculator which can help you figure out what an investment in efficient equipment [...]

Thank you Seattle! April 3, 2009

The Seattle Home Show was firm recognition for us that our product offering is exactly what more and more people are interested in for their home heating and cooling systems. Our solar thermal evacuated tube display caught a lot of folks attention. Ranging from pure curiousity to folks that already understand the vacuum tube technology–lots [...]

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