Don’t forget, the key to a reliable furnace or boiler is regular maintenance! We offer our valued Basking Ridge, Summit, and Maplewood customers a refreshing service plan to let you make all the necessary plumbing repairs, furnace installation and boiler tune-ups you might need in this chilly season! Call us up today and schedule an appointment to have your furnace or boiler looked at. And don’t forget to check online to see our discounts and offers for the month at Weltman Home Services.

Weltman Home Services’ team of Long Hill plumbers will fix any plumbing device that you can imagine. No matter how outdated your plumbing fixtures, we have the tools to repair them. Of course, we might recommend replacing your old fixtures with new, energy efficient fixtures, but if that is not something you plan to do, then we will gladly restore functioning to your current plumbing fixtures. At this time of year, many of our residential plumbing customers are facing a whole new world of winter-related plumbing issues. Winter plumbing issues can range from ice dams forming on the overhang of your roof to pipes freezing entirely. In extremely cold weather, your plumbing systems are more vulnerable to ice and water damage.

Long Hill pipe thawing is a plumbing service that could change your life. If your pipes have frozen before, or if they freeze every winter, then you are a great candidate for pipe thawing by a professionally trained Long Hill plumber. Our Long Hill plumbers bring a wealth of experience thawing pipes, clearing drains, cleaning sewers, and installing plumbing fixtures, to every plumbing job they do. When you select the Long Hill plumbing services of a qualified Weltman Home Services representative, you can rest assured that you will receive timely, friendly, and affordable service from a Long Hill plumber or Long Hill plumbing contractor.

For Long Hill pipe thawing and winter plumbing maintenance services, please do not hesitate to call a Long Hill plumber at Weltman Home Services today.

The Maplewood plumbers at Weltman Home Services have your best interest in mind, so while we would love to respond to those tough and often higher-paying plumbing repairs such as trenchless sewer replacement and hot water heater repairs, we would much prefer to see our customers enjoy fully functioning plumbing systems that do not need to be repaired every month. Generally, plumbing repairs will cost residential customers more than plumbing maintenance, which can include drain cleaning, sewer line inspection using video camera pipe inspection tools, or even a sump pump inspection. Weltman Home Services offers comprehensive residential plumbing maintenance services so that our customers can enjoy peace of mind without biting the bullet of costly plumbing repairs.

A Maplewood drain cleaning service visit from a Maplewood plumber at Weltman Home Services is a plumbing maintenance procedure that you will surely not regret. Our drain cleaning package is not only affordable, it is thorough and guarantees free flowing drains for any single drain in your home that features a clean out in order for the plumber to effectively remove drain blockages. When you call Weltman Home Services, feel free to tell us about any recurring drain issues because those might indicate a more complex plumbing issue that would require further maintenance. Whether you are tired of dealing with a shower that drains slowly or a toilet that clogs frequently, a Maplewood drain cleaning visit would be helpful for you.

Affordable plumbing maintenance is a Maplewood plumbing specialty that Weltman Home Services is proud to offer.

Installing a geothermal system will generate a 12 to 18 year payback. By year 15, plan to incur maintenance costs on your geothermal heat pump. For residential heating customers who live in housing developments or in any suburban area where homes are built close together, a geothermal heat pump is not the most cost effective energy efficient heating option.

Geothermal heat pump installation requires a heating specialist to dig several feet into the ground to source heat. The geothermal heat pump pulls warmth out of the ground temperature in winter, and in summer in replaces that heat into the ground rather than keeping it in your home. While a geothermal heat pump is a resource-efficient heating system option, it does require space to setup and it is an investment.

When you contact us, we can help you determine if a geothermal heat pump would actually be your best bet in terms of your heating costs, your usage, your property size, and the desired timeframe for your return on investment. Geothermal heat pump installation is a hefty process that requires ample planning and consideration before embarking upon it.

The Basking Ridge heating experts and Basking Ridge HVAC specialists at Weltman Home Services are professional trained to help you find the most energy efficient and cost effective heating solution for your particular needs. Please do not hesitate to contact Weltman Home Services so that we can help you select the heating system that best serves your energy needs.

Media air filters are usually 4 or 5 inches thick. They have MERV ratings that denote how well they filter the air. 16 is the highest MERV rating, and this degree of filtration is considered hospital-grade filtration. Cheap fiberglass filters that you may find in a hardware store will usually have poor MERV ratings. Paper-plated filters will have around a MERV 6 rating. We sell filters with 8, 11, 13, and 16 MERV ratings, and they vary in price according to MERV.

Media air filters are must-haves for homes with people who have allergies. You only have to change the filter every 6 months, so maintaining your air filter should not be an inconvenience. The media air filter inserts into your ductwork. A Short Hills HVAC specialist can install the media air filter between your furnace and your ductwork, integrating it into your HVAC system. Due to the nature of its installation, a Short Hills indoor air quality technician should not need not much space to install the media air filter.

Improving indoor air quality does not have to be a costly or time-consuming procedure. Simply installing a media air filter in your furnace can effectively clean the air that circulates in your home and attract contaminants and allergens such as animal hair and smoke particles. Take control of your indoor air quality by having a Short Hills home ventilation expert install an air filter in your home today.

Air filter installation is a simple way to improve your indoor air quality. To learn more about which air filter works best with your furnace, please get in touch with a Short Hills HVAC or Short Hills heating specialist today.

When you install UV lighting in your ductwork, they can help to reduce biological factors that may grow in your ductwork. When you combine moisture with darkness, you have a prime environment for molds and spores. The dark, dank environment that is your air duct is a great place for these molds and bacteria to populate and thrive. The UV light counteracts these mold-friendly environmental factors and makes your ducts drier and cleaner.

UV light installation is a Summit lighting installation procedure that our Summit electricians and Summit electrical contractors are proud to provide. The difference between moldy air ducts that push moldy air into your home and clean air ducts that circulate healthy, filtered air is as simple as an ultraviolet light.

UV light installation is a quick process that a Summit electrician or Summit electrical contractor can gladly conduct at a time that works for you. Once the UV lights have been installed in your air duct, they will work to purify the air that runs through your ducts and to reduce the biological factors that compromise air quality.

Once a Summit electrician installs a UV light in your ductwork, the lighting requires very little maintenance. Most UV lights that are intended for installation in an air duct only need to be replaced once a year. Easy installation and maintenance makes UV light installation a smart and simple indoor air quality improvement. To learn more about Summit indoor air quality improvement procedures, please call Weltman Home Services.

You can set your thermostat lower when you run heat in conjunction with a humidifier. In winter, a humidifier can bring you health benefits in addition to improving your home ventilation. A humidifier is responsible to regulating moisture in the air, and depending on the time of year, the weather, your altitude, and the ventilation in your home, installing a humidifier can actually lead you to use your central heating system less often. The less often you run your heat, the less energy your heater consumes, saving you money in the long run.

Once you install a Long Hill humidifier, you might notice that static shock reduces. Static shock refers to the forces that cause your hair to stand on end when you rub a balloon against your head. Static can also deliver uncomfortable shocks to your body if it accumulates around a high-friction area such as on a suede couch or chair. A humidifier works against the static shock to create an overall more comfortable indoor air situation.

After you have a Long Hill humidifier installed in your home, you may also notice that winter nosebleeds may occur less frequently. This is because nosebleeds thrive in cold, dry air, and a humidifier returns moisture to this cold, dry air and keeps your nostrils moist and free of nosebleeds.

A humidifier can also restore moisture to your skin. Especially in winter when the air is generally less humid, your skin can get dry and flaky overnight when you run your heater alone. When you add a humidifier to your home ventilation system, you are returning moisture to your sleeping area. Long Hill humidifier installation is a Weltman Home Services specialty.

You can leave an energy efficient fan motor running all the time to circulate air through your home. An energy efficient fan motor provides better temperature regulation than a stagnant HVAC system. This stagnant air can create an unpleasant atmosphere. Furthermore, the fan motor forces air to pass through the air filter, therefore cleaning the air. A fan motor left running all day can provide better purity, better circulation, better temperature regulation, and better indoor air quality.

Many newer furnaces are equipped with highly efficient fan motors. They consume a lot less energy that fan motors made even 10 years ago. These fan motors help to even out temperatures on days where you would run neither heat nor air conditioning. If you live in a home with multiple floors, then running your fan motor can produce perceptible indoor comfort.

Turning on the heat is not always to best way to improve indoor air quality or home ventilation. Simply running the fan motor is a far more effective way to circulate air without consuming too much energy. You will notice after just a few hours of leaving your fan motor on that your indoor air is cleaner, crisper, and generally more pleasant to breathe.

A Short Hills home ventilation expert from Weltman Home Services will gladly show you how to get the most out of your home ventilation systems. Please contact us today to learn more about how running a fan motor can be an energy efficient home ventilation solution.

Most furnaces are around 78%, whereas the higher efficiency furnaces can be 96% efficient. A good high efficiency furnace should be around 96% efficiency. A 78% efficiency furnace would be beneficial to someone who is not going to be in the house for long. If you plan to move in one or two years, an 80% efficiency furnace would be sufficient rather than if you plan to stay in your home for awhile. Any furnace 95% and above is eligible for a tax credit that can save you hundreds of dollars.

You will need to consider how long you plan to keep the furnace before purchasing a Basking Ridge high efficiency furnace. Your payback on a furnace with, say, 95% efficiency may be longer than you expect, but if you plan to live in your home for 10 years, this payoff period will be worth the wait. As gas prices increase, the faster the payback on your energy efficient furnace.

This means that when you are planning to install a new furnace, you may want to consider trends in the cost of fuel before doing so. Your payback is the return on investment that you can expect to see after you have been using your system for a given amount of time. Many Basking Ridge residential heating customers consider the payoff to be an important factor in timing your system replacement.

Before you make an investment in a high efficiency furnace or a standard efficiency furnace, you will want to consider your desired payoff time, the length of time you plan to live in the home with the furnace, your monthly heat use patterns, and the impact of a tax credit on the total price of the new furnace. Lucky for you, a Basking Ridge furnace replacement technician at Weltman Home Services can help you make the decision.

The hot gas inside the heat exchanger can leak if the heat exchanger is cracked. Part of this gas is carbon monoxide, which can be harmful to your indoor air. Fixing a cracked heat exchanger is a complex heating repair procedure that should be left to the expertise of a professional trained HVAC technician or HVAC specialist.

Consider your heat exchanger the heart and soul of your furnace. Without it, your heater is useless, and if you are operating a home heating system with a cracked heat exchanger, you can put yourself and others in your home at risk. Rather than ignore a cracked heat exchanger until the point at which it makes more sense to replace your entire furnace, we encourage you to call Weltman Home Services so a trained Summit HVAC specialist can take a closer look.

A cracked heat exchanger is not to be taken lightly. Left unrepaired, a cracked heat exchanger can compromise your indoor air quality by leaking gases into the air. And if your home does not already have a carbon monoxide detector, these leaked gases can be toxic. The heat exchanger contains ribbons and coils that heat up from a nearly flame and when air passes over these coils, it is released into your air ducts as hot air. When the coils in heat exchanger are damaged, this passing air can carry harmful gases into your home.

To repair a cracked heat exchanger, please get in touch with a Summit heater repair technician at Weltman Home Services today.

A poorly tuned furnace or an old furnace that is not functioning properly can put carbon monoxide into your house. If your carbon monoxide detector has not been inspected lately, then it may not be able to detect this harmful compound in the air. Rather than run the risk of contaminating your indoor air, we recommend that you schedule a furnace safety inspection as soon as possible. If you moved into an older home and did not replace the furnace that was in the home from the time it was constructed, then this furnace might be damaged and therefore potentially dangerous. Furnace safety is a heating maintenance procedure that can save you money by preventing costly furnace repairs and furnace replacement.

A Short Hills furnace safety technician will gladly inspect your furnace to check for holes, cracks, and other signs of disrepair. A furnace safety check can reveal deeper issues that require more complex furnace repairs. The best way to find out the status and condition of your home furnace is to invest in an extra pair of eyes, those of a Short Hills HVAC specialist or Short Hills heating technician.

At this time of year, furnace safety should be at the top of your list of preparations for winter. You will need to make sure that the furnace you have installed is safe to run all winter long without compromising your health or the health of others living in your home. Maintenance is generally less expensive than repairs, so please do not hesitate to schedule a furnace safety inspection with a Short Hills furnace safety expert.

Thanks to the Basking Ridge electricians and Basking Ridge electrical contractors at Weltman Home Services, residential heating and commercial heating customers in Basking Ridge and the surrounding areas have a trusted go-to for heating repairs, heating system upgrades, and heating system replacement. If you are looking for a heating system replacement that will actually save you money, then we urge you to consider in-floor radiant floor heating installation.

In-floor radiant heating installation combined with ceramic floor tiles can lend to a stunning bathroom renovation that will actually make your floor work as a conductor of heat. The ceramic tiles will trap heat even after you shut off the heating system, so when you step into your bathroom on a cold November morning, your bare feet will be pleasantly warm. In-floor radiant heating installation is a job fit for a Basking Ridge HVAC specialist, Basking Ridge electrician, or Basking Ridge electrical contractor. You can get the most out of an electrical in-floor radiant system if you plan to operate it only within one room, such as a home addition, where installing an entirely new central heating unit is impractical.

The type of in-floor radiant heating system that you choose will depend on factors such as the size of the space you plan to heat, whether you plan to embed the electrical cable within a concrete slab floor or in the space beneath the floor, and the carrying capacity of your floors – to name a few. To learn more about the in-floor radiant heating installation service that we provide, please contact Weltman Home Services today.

If you have outdoor landscape lights installed along the sides of your driveway, then you probably have them automated using a timer that you can control from inside your home. What happens if this timer breaks? It is possible that your driveway lights would stay on all day, or stay off all night. After installing any type of outdoor landscape lighting such as driveway lighting, it is important to make sure that the controlling switches are in proper working order. If your timer or light switch has stopped working, then a Short Hills electrician or Short Hills electrical contractor from Weltman Home Services can help you.

In the event that you cannot turn off your driveway lights, then we recommend calling a Short Hills electrician or Short Hills electrical contractor immediately. The longer you wait, the more energy waste and, consequently, the higher your next electricity bill. The electricians on the Weltman Home Services team want to help you get the most out of your investment in outdoor landscape lighting, so we will gladly assist you with repairing your landscape lighting controls.

Outdoor sensor lighting requires electrical maintenance to make sure that you are getting the most out of the automated timer features. To learn more about how we can help you maintain your driveway lighting, or if you are interested in driveway lighting installation, then please get in touch with a Short Hills electrician or Short Hills electrical contractor at Weltman Home Services today. We look forward to hearing from you!

The Long Hill plumbers and Long Hill plumbing contractors at Weltman Home Services are flexing their plumbing services muscles this season as they answer service calls from residential plumbing and commercial plumbing customers seeking plumbing repairs, plumbing maintenance, and new plumbing fixture installation. When it comes to new fixture installation, a Long Hill plumber is the first person you should call. Weltman Home Service’s team of professional trained plumbers and plumbing contractors have years of experience working with leading makes and models of bathroom and kitchen fixtures. If you are looking to make an upgrade to your bathroom, then a Long Hill plumber from Weltman Home Services would be glad to assist you.

A bathroom renovation should not break your bank. Many homeowners undertake their bathroom renovations in parts, installing a new showerhead here, fixing a loose bathroom faucet there. No matter the scope of your bathroom renovation, a Long Hill plumber is here to help. Might we suggest replacing your decade-old toilet that keeps breaking down with a brand new water efficient low flow toilet? Low flow toilets can reduce your water consumption considerably because they require such a small amount of water to function. Some low flow toilets boast per flush rates of 1 gallon per flush! If you would like to learn more about how your bathroom renovation can actually save you money down the line, please get in touch with the Long Hill low flow toilet installation specialists at Weltman Home Services. We look forward to helping you lower your water bills.

Did you know that there are several, very easy things you can do to lower your utilities bills? Do not be fooled into believing that the only way to save money on utilities is to purchase high-end appliances that tout endless energy savings. While there are a wealth of energy efficient electrical home appliances on the market that can satisfy your home energy needs at a fraction of the cost you are currently paying, there are yet more steps that you can take in your own home to make the cost of energy lower than ever before. For starters, you can teach your children early on to understand where energy comes from and how to be mindful of their consumption habits. Here are a few ways to make your children smarter energy users:

1. Have them pay part of the electric bill with their own allowance.

If your kids have to give up a few dollars of their allowance to account for their energy habits, then they will be better able to make the connection between electricity and finances. When your kids are paying for it themselves, they will soon be able to see that electricity is not free and it does not grow on trees. In fact, it costs money – their money!

2. Show them your electrical panel.

You do not have to be a Basking Ridge electrician to know that electrical appliances require an electric current to operate. Your kids, however, may have no idea why there is a metal box built into the wall with various switches and labels. Play around with your electrical panel and show your kids how the electrical systems in your home are powered. The more they know about the appliances they use and the switches they sometimes leave on, the more informed they can be about their electricity usage.

3. Involve them in electrical repairs and maintenance.

The next time you schedule an electrical maintenance or electrical repairs visit from a Basking Ridge electrical contractor, let the kids watch us work. We will gladly keep them in the loop of the electrical equipment, electrical systems, and electrical procedures that we perform. Understanding your energy consumption habits is much easier when you learn as much as you can about electricity.