Atlanta Heating and Air

Hello and thanks for visiting my little corner of cyberspace. In this post I want to talk about a friend of mine who runs an Atlanta heating and air company. His name is Eric and I was speaking with him this weekend about a few new developments in the HVAC industry. For those who are unfamiliar with HVAC, it stands for heating ventilation and  air conditioning. We were talking about 13 seer equipment and what we thought the impact actually was in terms of cost savings for a home owner over 10 seer equipment. Now let me back up for a second and start to define some of these terms for people who may be unfamiliar with heating and air conditioning terminology. 10 seer and 13 seer refer to the Seer rating of a central air unit. Now Seer stands for seasonal energy efficiency ratio(SEER). Now without getting into too much detail on all of this I will simply say that the higher the SEER number the more efficient the unit operates. So a 13 seer unit is more efficient than a 10 seer unit. Similarly a 15 seer unit would function more efficiently than would a 13 seer unit. Now in the case of modern HVAC the government requires that all new  heating and air units have a minimum seer rating of 13. This means that stores no longer sell the less efficient 10 seer units and although many homeowners still own legacy models the trend in the industry is to steer these customers toward upgrading their systems to 13 seer. The mandate that all units must be 13 seer is a rather recent development so most of my career was spend working on 10 seer models.  In our conversation we came to the mutual conclusion that these units probably make up the difference in cost between the older models in utility savings within the first year. Not only that it probably doesn't take more than 4 years or so for an upgraded unit to completely pay for itself. After that you are operating it for free and most likely saving a nice amount of money on that utility bill each month. If you are considering upgrading your system, I would highly recommend you doing so. If you are in the Atlanta area and looking for a solid company, go ahead and give my buddy Eric a call at Atlanta heating and air.