Seaside Air Conditioning and Heating Repair Southern California
Licensed Air Conditioning and Heating Company in Orange County, California, also Serving Riverside County | Energy-Saving Tuneups, Repair, Maintenance, Service and New Installations
And a Very Happy New Year in 2024. From our Seaside Air Conditioning and Heating Family to Yours!
Serving all of Orange County, California, especially those cities in South Orange County, including San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, Dana Point, Mission Viejo, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Beach, Laguna Woods, Laguna Niguel, Lake Forest, and Ladera Ranch.
Carefully selecting and buying the best heating and cooling system has become an important financial decision, for over its lifetime, the costs of maintaining and operating a system will far exceed its initial cost. Seaside Air Conditioning and Heating is Orange County’s premier HVAC contractor, providing the knowledge and experience to assist customers in purchasing and installing the right equipment for their homes or commercial applications.
For each and every month of operation, your utility company will bill you for gas and electric power consumption. The wrong system, improperly installed, could cost you 20 to 30 years of excessive energy costs. It may also fail to deliver the comfort you expect and deserve, and may adversely affect your family’s health and safety.
You will also need to maintain your new system, pay for repairs when needed, or replace your equipment if it fails prematurely. Selecting the right system is important, as is choosing the right contractor to specify and install it.
Air conditioners, heat pumps and furnaces have become more sophisticated and more energy efficient. For example, the most energy efficient air conditioner of ten years ago is often considered a “bottom of the line” offering now.
You’ll hear and read a lot of industry jargon, like “SEER,” “HSPF” and “AFUE”. These terms basically describe how efficiently the equipment operates, similar to miles per gallon for a car. The higher the efficiency number, the lower your electric and gas bills may be as a result.
Manufacturers (and some contractors) will tell you that a new high efficiency system “pays for itself,” because the investment is offset by up to 50% savings on monthly utility bills. But does this really happen in the real world?
A few homeowners actually do save 25% to 50% on their utility bills after buying a new system. Unfortunately, most people save much less, because only a small fraction of newly installed systems actually reduce utility bills up to full potential.
Efficiency is dependent upon other factors, not just manufacturers’ ratings, which are measured in a controlled, ideal laboratory setting. Much can and does go wrong when a contractor installs the equipment in your home. As a result, many homeowners are not realizing the full potential of their new systems.
Call Seaside Air Conditioning and Heating today at (949) 496-3639, or contact us via email, for an evaluation of your needs, at home or office! We sell the finest, energy-efficient heating and air conditioning systems, and we install those systems to take full advantage of the potential cost savings that result from the latest technological advances in the industry.
Content for this article, courtesy of The Comfort Institute, has been modified and edited.
The Nest Learning Thermostat may be the hottest item at CES 2012! Heating and air conditioning has become sexy again! Although it was announced in 2011, the Nest was one of the big hits of the annual Consumer Electronic Show this week in Las Vegas.
Seaside Air Conditioning and Heating can install a new Nest thermostat for you! The $249 Nest Learning Thermostat has already sold out, but if you contact us, we will pre-order your very own Nest and install it for you as soon as more become available.WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE NEST IN STOCK!
Give us a call at (949) 496-3639, or send us an email. This is a first-come-first-served offer, so the sooner you contact us, the sooner you can get your Nest.
Nest learns your habits and adjusts your energy usage accordingly. Energy saving features like Auto-Away™ and Energy History will become available as Nest learns.
Auto-Away turns heating and cooling down automatically when no one is home, saving energy when you don’t need it. Energy History shows you how much energy you’ve used daily.
By learning your habits, Nest will automatically make a schedule for your home. One-off temperature changes won’t confuse it, but change the temperature a couple of days in a row and Nest will catch on and adjust its schedule. Lower the temperature two Mondays in a row and Nest will remember for next week. How “hot” is that?
Your Nest is available to you 24/7 online. After an unseasonably cold day, you log in to nest.com from the office to adjust the temperature at home! If you have multiple thermostats, you can view and manage each individually from one Nest Account. When your Nest is connected to Wi-Fi, you can change the temperature, adjust your schedule and check local weather from anywhere, including your smart phone! Use the Nest Mobile app to connect to your thermostat from a smartphone. Getting in early? Change the temperature miles from home. Now that’s pretty “cool.”
More information can be found on the Nest website.
Winter has arrived in Orange County!
Okay, winter in Dana Point is nothing like Detroit, and Mission Viejo is not Minneapolis! But still, this time of year finds many residents unprepared for colder temperatures. It’s time to repair or replace that old furnace to keep your monthly costs low and keep your spirits high!
Now is a great time for take advantage of our VIP Energy Savings Agreement, which includes two visits per year to test and clean all components of your furnace and air conditioner to assure peak performance and high efficiency operation. Our air conditioning and heating technicians are the best at providing air conditioner repair or furnace repair. Seaside is NATE certified, an accreditation which recognizes technical excellence.
Energy efficiency is more important than ever. Utility prices are rising, as you surely have noticed on your monthly gas and electric bills. An energy-efficient heater for your home can save you money each month through lower utility bills. Contact us via email, or call Seaside today at (949) 496-3639.
We can all agree that energy costs are rising, and therefore, it is more important than ever to develop energy-efficient appliances and systems for our homes and businesses. This is true in Orange County and throughout Southern California, where electricity rates have been increasing.
Here’s a article we found on an M.I.T. website that describes an especially “cool” method of saving energy and reducing our air conditioning bills. The article is provocatively entitled, “Melting Drywall Keeps Rooms Cool.”
Building materials that absorb heat during the day and release it at night, eliminating the need for air-conditioning in some climates, will soon be on the market in the United States. The North Carolina company National Gypsum is testing drywall sheets–the plaster panels that make up the walls in most new buildings–containing capsules that absorb heat to passively cool a building. The capsules, made by chemical giant BASF, can be incorporated into a range of construction materials and are already found in some products in Europe.
The “phase-change” materials inside the BASF capsules keep a room cool in much the same way that ice cubes chill a drink: by absorbing heat as they melt. Each polymer capsule contains paraffin waxes that melt at around room temperature, enabling them to keep the temperature of a room constant throughout the day. The waxes work best in climates that cool down at night, allowing the materials inside the capsules to solidify and release the heat they’ve stored during the day.
Inventions like this one could be part of the future of making air conditioning more efficient and affordable in Orange County, and in warmer inland areas like Riverside County and San Bernardino County.
Excerpted from an article by Katherine Bourzac; Photo Credit: Peter Schossig
While it is possible to seal a house too tightly, it is very unlikely in most older homes. A certain amount of fresh air is needed for good indoor air quality and there are specifications that set the minimum amount of fresh air needed for a house. If you are concerned about how tight your home is, hire an energy specialist to perform leakage tests using diagnostic tools and make sure all combustion appliances are operating properly. If your home is too tight, the energy specialist may recommend that a fresh air ventilation system be added to your HVAC system. Visit ENERGY STAR Home Sealing for more information.
Give Seaside Air Conditioning and Heating a call today! Coastal communities like Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach, as well as San Clemente, typify our beach cities that often comprise older, more established homes and neighborhoods. And newer areas, including Newport Coast, Newport Beach, Irvine in the middle of Orange County, and Laguna Niguel, Aliso Viejo, and Dana Point at the south end of Orange County, typify cities where a strong mix of new homes have been built in the past two decades. Old and new homes alike will benefit from a energy tune-up from Seaside!
The measure for the efficiency of air conditioners and heat pumps is the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER), which compares cooling output to electrical consumption over a range of temperatures. The higher the SEER, the better the energy performance, the more you save.
Lennox has an Energy Savings Calculator on its website. Check it out! Just click on either the heating or cooling arrows, choose your state, then choose a SEER value on the blue screen. For example, for California, a SEER of 12 can save 17% yearly on your energy costs of operation, and potentially $385 over a 4-year period. Of course, those numbers are estimates, and much depends upon utility rates and hours of usage.
Call Seaside today! Or contact us via email to arrange for a free evaluation of your home, or our popular pre-season tune-up. Orange County’s coastal cities are blessed with comfortable temperatures and cool ocean breezes, but even a ocean-front town like San Clemente needs air conditioning during those hot summer days, especially at businesses and offices. And our beautiful, but toasty inland cities, including Mission Viejo, Ladera Ranch, Santa Margarita, and others, definitely benefit from efficient air conditioning units during those heavy use months when summer heat is at its highest.
And, or course, our Canyon Lake Office serves the Inland Empire. And there are few places that would stand to benefit more than the Inland Empire from efficient air conditioning during the extended hot weather that we experience each year in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Efficiency, energy-saving air conditioners equals BIG SAVINGS on your electric bills. Call us today to start saving $$$$.
As much as half of the energy used in your home goes to heating and cooling! So making smart decisions about your home’s heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system can have a big effect on your utility bills — and your comfort. Take these steps to increase the efficiency of your heating and cooling system. For more information, download the government’s Guide to Energy Efficient Heating & Cooling (708KB).
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