Cleaning with Lemon Juice
National Lemon Juice Day is August 29th and we have put together tips on how to use lemon juice to clean your home. You can sip some lemonade and give your home a nice sprucing up at the same time. The best part is that your home will smell like lemons all day! When cleaning…
Preparing Your HVAC for Summer
Oklahoma summers are intense, and having reliable HVAC is necessary for fighting the heat. Air conditioning requires a bit of preparation for the hot season, along with some maintenance to retain its functionality. Your A/C may have been idle for long periods of time, especially during the colder seasons. This creates problems than can limit…
How to Boost Efficiency with a Programmable Thermostat
Cut Costs but Not Comfort with a Programmable Thermostat We’ve never been one to hide the fact that heating and cooling account for nearly half your energy costs. If you’ve been keeping up with our posts, you would know that we’ve also never been one to keep energy-saving secrets from our readers. In fact, we at Interstate…
Earth Day: 4 Energy Efficient Cooling Tips
Save Money And Help Our Environment This Earth Day When it comes to protecting and preserving our earth, it’s easy to slip into the mindset that our individual actions have little to no impact. Adopting this thought process is dangerous because it discourages a person from so much as attempting to better their environment. This Earth Day,…
3 Important Reasons to Schedule Your Spring HVAC Tune-Up
Welcome Spring with Open Arms by Scheduling Your HVAC Tune-Up! While the temperature outside might have you believing otherwise, spring isn’t here just yet. That’s right – we’re technically within the realm of winter still. Apart from the several bitter cold days and brief morsels of snow, Oklahoma City experienced a rather mild winter. However, come…
Eco-Friendly Tips | 4 Ways to Go Green This St. Patrick’s Day
Adopting an Eco-Friendly Mindset Goes a Long Way Kermit the Frog once famously lamented through song that it’s not easy being green. In the end, however, he decided that it was exactly what he wanted to be, because “[being green] can be important, like a mountain.” And he’s exactly right. Being green is important, particularly…
New Year’s Resolutions: An Energy Savings Guide
Make A New Year’s Resolution to be More Energy Efficient It’s never too early to start thinking about your New Year’s resolutions. Change is something most of us are eager to dream about, however, very few see it through. We’ve all been guilty of making a resolution and not following it to the end,…
Save Energy This Thanksgiving
From all of us at Interstate Heating & Air Conditioning, we wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that today is filled with joy, laughter, festivities, and of course, good food! Families across the country are scrambling to prepare their homes for friends and relatives. Whether you’ve got a handful of people coming over…
Popular Home Heating Myths
When the weather becomes frigid, homeowners will do just about anything to keep their homes comfortable and toasty. There are numerous home heating tips floating around the internet that appear to make sense in the most basic sense, however, some of these so-called “tips” are actually myths and may increase monthly heating costs. We’ve gathered…
Do You Need a Furnace Replacement? Pay Attention to These 5 Signs
Not sure if you need a furnace replacement? Without your furnace, your home would not be a comfortable respite. Day after day, it works to provide you with heat so that you can keep warm and cozy all winter long. We all know how brutal OKC winters can be, so it’s critical that you…
4 Reasons to Schedule Your Fall Furnace Tune-Up
Have you scheduled your furnace tune-up yet? Fall is just a few short weeks away, but that hasn’t stopped some of you from celebrating early by drinking your first Starbucks PSL of the season. If pumpkin spice lattes aren’t exactly your thing, celebrate the cooler weather by scheduling your fall furnace tune-up! You might be…
Save Money with a Programmable Thermostat
While modern HVAC technology is the most energy-efficient that it’s ever been, a Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) reveals that heating and cooling still accounts for 48% of energy consumption in U.S. homes. The good news is that this figure is down from 58% just a few years ago, which reflects the increase in more…