Residential

12 Ways to Make Your Home Energy Efficient

Improving your home’s energy efficiency may seem like a small step toward a sustainable future, but it’s a move that comes with big environmental impacts. That’s because energy efficiency plays a pivotal role in lowering greenhouse gases, according to the International Energy Agency.

So, this Earth Day—and every day—use these strategies to make your home energy efficient.

1.  Program your thermostat.

How to Save Money with Your HVAC System

Your HVAC system serves to not only improve home comfort, but when it works efficiently, it can also help cut down on costs.

From EcoNet® to high-efficiency heat pumps and air conditioners, installing new Rheem equipment can bring cost savings. If you’re not in the market for a new system, the good news is that you can work with your current system to stretch your dollars and do the same.

9 Connectivity Benefits of the EcoNet® Smart Home System

As the world ventures into the era of connected everything, HVAC is no exception.

Historically, homeowners could only change and monitor their home temperatures from a physical thermostat. But today, Rheem®’s EcoNet® smart monitoring system allows home comfort from wherever they are with a smart thermostat and connected app.

With the latest in sensor and smart technology, the Wi-Fi-enabled EcoNet platform offers homeowners a new level of energy savings and maximum home comfort.

Home Heating and Cooling Insights: Heat Pump Myths Debunked

When it comes to what makes a house feel like a home, there are many systems running behind the scenes to ensure your comfort, health, and safety. But how much do you know about these workhorses of the house? For example: the heat pump. Offering an energy-efficient alternative to furnaces and air conditioners, heat pumps use the refrigeration cycle to move heat from the outside in, or the inside out, keeping your home at the perfect temperature.

A Quiet, Efficient System for Any Tight Space: Sound and Space Constraint Solution

When it comes to homeownership, you want your systems and appliances to work quietly in the background of your life, and not cost too much in maintenance, upkeep, energy, or sanity. Rheem’s Sound and Space Constraint Solution uses a forward-thinking approach to solve the issues facing many homeowners—small spaces, excess noise, and outdated energy use—and provides high-quality air solutions to address every home, even in the tightest of spaces.

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5 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Home

Being a homeowner is a rewarding experience. But along with the joy and satisfaction that comes with turning a house into a home, also comes a laundry list of maintenance tasks you have to keep up with throughout the year.
Fortunately, the new year is an opportunity to regroup, so as you’re setting those personal goals and ambitions, consider adding these five proactive and preventative tasks to your list of New Year’s resolutions:

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Get Yourself and Your Home Ready for the Season

With crisp fall days about to give way to winter’s chill, it’s the perfect time to make sure your HVAC system is up to the challenge. While this year has seen its own share of challenges, the last thing you want is a heating system that just can’t keep up. So the same advice that’s true for you this time of year is also true for your HVAC system.

Celebrate Safely This Thanksgiving

This year has been unusual, to say the least. At a certain point, everything stopped (except, of course, for many of our Rheem Pros, who were quickly deemed essential workers).

While the CDC recommends against having family gatherings for Thanksgiving, they have also provided recommendations around how to stay safe while celebrating Turkey Day among family and friends. We put together a combination of their recommendations plus some creative ways to gather together this year,