San Gabriel Valley Pushes Back Against Natural Gas Ban for HVAC in Local Homes and Businesses Everyone wants clean power for California homes and businesses, right? After all, the consequences of pollution affect everyone. Smog is no fun: for office workers, for children on the playing field, or even for your neighborhood HVAC technician. And for many people, including ... Continue Reading
Willis Carrier: Air Conditioning Hero and Cool Cat
An Inventor and Engineer Who Saved Lives and Changed America With the warm days that are part and parcel of living and working in the San Gabriel Valley, air conditioning goes with the territory. Offices, stores, homes and businesses all depend upon this technology not only for commerce, but also for the routines of daily living. The summer sunshine can be dangerous, and ... Continue Reading
HVAC Isn’t Just for Humans: Your Pet Needs to Be Comfortable in Hot Weather Too!
Indoor Comfort Matters for Pets Too, According to the Experts We here in Monrovia, Bradbury, La Canada and Duarte all know you should never leave a dog or other animal inside the car during the warmer months. No matter how balmy it may seem outside, the indoor of an automobile can heat up even in early spring to lethal levels for Fluffy or Fido. But have you ... Continue Reading
Super Blooms and Super Sneezes: Eliminate Pollen from Your HVAC System
Allergy Season Is Here for Pasadena, Monrovia and La Canada. Here’s How to Reduce Pollen in Your Home. According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year, qualifying it as the sixth leading cause of chronic illness in the United States. That’s a lot of tissue! And with this year’s wet winter, ... Continue Reading
Hi-Tech Flu Protection: Using UV Light in Your HVAC at the Office
After All, Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant. With “sick building syndrome” in the news lately, there’s a lot of concern right now about mold and other bacteria in the air we breathe at work. And it turns out that those fancy commercial office buildings constructed in recent years often provide little ventilation and a whole lot of moisture for dangerous contaminants ... Continue Reading
Banish the Flu Bug with UV Light: Keep “Sick Building Syndrome” at Bay in Your Office
This time of year workplace absenteeism climbs as cold and flu viruses make the rounds. What can you do to protect your employees? How about safely sterilizing the air they breathe at work? Haven’t we all had our hearts sink when we’ve heard a coworker sneeze in the office, or complain about “just a little sore throat?” In today’s competitive business environment, ... Continue Reading
Seasons Greetings from Your HVAC Specialists!
Take Our Quiz to Test Your Holiday Knowledge Along with total indoor comfort, it’s all about family and friends, good food and forever memories this time of year. Find out how much tradition trivia you know by answering a few easy questions below. Or better yet, impress your Aunt Martha with your holiday expertise next time she won’t stop talking about her Chihuahua’s ... Continue Reading
When the Air Outside is Smoky, It’s Time to Keep Your Indoor Air Quality Clean
Indoor Comfort Is Important For Health and Safety We’ve all watched with sadness as fires have ravaged much of California in recent weeks. The fact is that these kinds of events are becoming more frequent throughout our state and especially within the Southland. While we don’t have solutions to the larger issues here, we can provide you with advice on keeping the air ... Continue Reading
HVAC Memes and Pix You Didn’t Know You Needed
Who Knew Furnace and Air Conditioning Issues Were On Everyone’s Minds? It’s that time of year again in Southern California, when you’re never sure if it’s going to be hot enough to need the AC or cool enough to mean the furnace should be on. Apparently this isn’t as simple an issue as it seems! Whether you hang out at home or spend most of your time in a commercial ... Continue Reading
How to Maintain Indoor Comfort When There’s Wildfire Smoke Outside
Southern California Sometimes Means Smoky Air During Fire Season It’s an unpleasant fact of life for anyone living in Southern California: wildfire season. Along with maintaining your smoke detectors and considering fire safety in your landscaping designs, it’s also possible to take steps to maintain indoor air quality when wildfire smoke hangs heavy outdoors. For ... Continue Reading
Common Commercial Air Conditioning Problems and What to Do About Them
Some HVAC Issues Are Easy Fixes, Others Not So Much These days in Southern California, weather extremes seem par for the course. But whatever the season, indoor comfort is always at a premium, not just for your employees, but for your clients too. Research has conclusively tied office productivity and even customer satisfaction to a pleasant indoor environment, so if ... Continue Reading
It’s a Fact: HVAC Isn’t Just for People.
Pets Need Indoor Comfort Too: Hot Weather Tips For Animal Care When it comes to weather, it’s easy to forget that Fluffy and Fido also need extra special care during the summer and fall here in Southern California. Many animals are extremely sensitive to temperature, rendering a hot spell very dangerous for pets if you’re not paying attention. Along with keeping ... Continue Reading
Breathe Healthier with a Lennox Home Comfort System
Today we are living healthier lives than ever before. We eat healthier and now we can even breathe healthier because Lennox Home Comfort Systems can remove contaminants from the air. A Lennox system from Air-Tro can help you get rid of chemical vapor, pollen, and other allergens. Let us show you how. Call Air-Tro today at 626-357-3535. ... Continue Reading
When Your House Smells Like a Gym Sock: Blame Your Return Air Ducts, Not Your Teenager
Return Air Ducts Often Foster Mold and Mildew We know, kids aren’t the best at collecting their dirty laundry and putting it in the hamper where it belongs. Nevertheless, before you blame Junior for the musty smell that is permeating your living space, consider your return air ducts, and the nooks and crannies inside the rest of your home. First, it should go ... Continue Reading
Is It Time For You to Install an Air Purifier?
What You Need to Know About Blocking Smoke, and Other Particulates from Your Home Everyone knows there have been a lot of wildfires here in Southern California over the past few years. Smog and now smoke are common air quality problems for the San Gabriel Valley, and many families are worried about the health dangers that come along with breathing in these pollutants, ... Continue Reading
Congratulations on Your New Home! What Do You Know About Your HVAC System?
A Little Due Diligence Now Can Save You a Lot of Money Later Buying a new home is exciting, and moving into your new abode can be even more so. What colors to paint the walls? Hardwood or carpeting? And what’s going on with the wallpaper in the bathroom? With so much to decide upon, not to mention unpack, paying any attention at all to your HVAC system may seem a little ... Continue Reading
Indoor Comfort Means HVAC and More: Tips to Reduce Allergens in Your Home
Go Beyond Changing Your AC Filter with These Simple Suggestions The EPA has suggested that indoor air quality is usually about five times more polluted than the air outside. Despite our smog, Southern Californians are luckier than most folks when it comes to this IAQ (indoor air quality) problem. Our weather is usually mild enough to allow opening a window or two ... Continue Reading
Worried About Indoor Air Quality? Houseplants Can Help!
HVAC and Houseplants Go Together to Promote Healthy Indoor Living Of course you’ve read it here: there are several important things you should do regularly to improve the air quality inside your home. Changing your air filters every three to six months, for example, makes a huge difference when it comes to ensuring the air inside your home is clean and fresh. Using ... Continue Reading
Air Conditioning: Funny, Happy, and Just Plain Weird Reactions to HVAC Technology
You Wouldn’t Think Air Conditioning Could Be Controversial, But at the Beginning, It Was In today’s dog days of early fall, it’s hard to imagine living in the San Gabriel Valley without air conditioning. And yet, up until about a hundred years ago, people did exactly that here and everywhere else in the United States. Still, that didn’t stop creative thinkers, ... Continue Reading
Because Movies and Air Conditioning Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jelly: Facts about HVAC and Tom Hanks
Did you know that air conditioning has gone hand in hand with the movies since the early days of our industry? We’ll get to why in a minute, but in the meantime, it’s a beautiful summer day! School is starting for many of the younger set in the San Gabriel Valley and it’s time to sit back, and enjoy the relative quiet that only an afternoon in an appropriately air ... Continue Reading
Are You An HVAC Boy Scout (or Girl Scout)?
It’s a hot summer day and suddenly, your air conditioner conks out. What do you do? Indoor Comfort Can Be a Lifesaver First, if you have any senior citizens, infants or invalids in your household, consider taking them immediately to a cooler location while the air conditioner gets fixed. Heat exhaustion or worse is prevalent when the temperatures climb, and someone who ... Continue Reading
Stay Safe: Carbon Monoxide Warning
The Danger No One Can See or Smell in Your Home If you have a gas or oil furnace, boiler, stove, hot water heater, kerosene heater or other, similar appliance in your home, don’t take chances when it comes to carbon monoxide. An odorless, colorless gas, carbon monoxide displaces oxygen in your bloodstream by attaching itself to hemoglobin. At best, carbon monoxide ... Continue Reading
Sick Building Syndrome: Is Your Indoor Air Quality a Problem?
Contaminated duct systems can present hidden but dangerous issues for homeowners and office workers Respiratory problems seem to go with the season, don’t they? Symptoms like coughing, a runny nose, or feeling just kind of run down are chalked up to a runaway flu or cold. Soon your whole family is feeling under the weather, or you have multiple workers calling in sick, ... Continue Reading
Glenna’s HVAC Houseplant: Our Secret Good Luck Charm at Air-Tro, Inc.
A Little Extra Green Energy in the Office We’re known at Air-Tro for friendly service, experienced, well trained employees, and great prices on all the best heating and air conditioning systems. As a family owned business since 1969, we’re proud we’ve developed a reputation as the the number one heating and air conditioning for the San Gabriel Valley and beyond. But ... Continue Reading
Hotter Than Ever: In Praise of Air Conditioning
Air Conditioning: Collateral Benefits That Matter In a year some scientists are calling potentially the hottest ever on record, the battle over the value of air conditioning is still fought in some circles. Would we be better off without it, some ask? Is it somehow more desirable or morally upright to just sweat it out? Looking at the facts, the answer is ... Continue Reading
