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How Does Indoor Air Quality Impact Your Family’s Health?

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At Blue Ox Heating & Air, we strive to educate families throughout the Minneapolis, MN, area on the importance of regular furnace and AC maintenance. Our tune-ups not only improve system performance and prevent breakdowns, but they also keep building occupants healthy. Cleaning ducts and registers and changing dirty filters prevents contaminants from recirculating in the air. For further […]

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Feeling Sick? How Air Quality Impacts Health

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Outdoor air pollutants are fairly well-known and publicized, but indoor air pollution can be just as damaging to your health. The World Health Organization points to several complications and increased risks from low indoor air quality, including higher rates of pneumonia, stroke, heart disease, and lung cancer. Many of these complications are attributable to poor use of

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Home Heating

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The Best Way To Keep Your Home Comfortable We live in a region with wicked extremes—102° and humid in the summer, -60° with wind-chill in the depths of winter. One of the biggest challenges for Minnesotans is staying comfortable despite the less-than-comfortable forecast. Although we Minnesotans are known for venturing outdoors with complete disregard for

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Heat Pumps in Cold Weather

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OPTIMIZE YOUR HOME HEATING WITH A HEAT PUMP Is winter getting the better of your home heating system? If these sub-zero temperatures are sending your furnace into overdrive, but your home doesn’t ever seem to warm up, it may be time to try something different. Heat pumps shift warm air from where it’s not needed to

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Do-It-Yourself Heating Repair

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While the Minneapolis technicians with Blue Ox will obviously be here for you any time you have any sort of heating system problem, we also want to help save you money. We don’t want you to have to pay for a repair that you could probably handle on your own, so here are a few do-it-yourself heating repair tips. These

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Is Your Heater Ready for Fall? 4 Things to Check to Avoid Freezing Your Butt Off

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You don’t want to find out that your furnace isn’t working to it’s best capabilities when it’s November and -20 outside. The best way to afford a mid-Winter breakdown is by keeping up with maintenance and upkeep right before fall begins and the temperatures start sinking lower. Here are four key things to check on before your

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Getting to Know Your Thermostat

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Your thermostat doesn’t have to be a stranger. In fact, let us introduce you. Introductions usually start with a name, so… the word “thermostat” is a combination of two Greek words. “Thermo,” which means “heat,” and “statos,” which translates to “standing,” “stationary,” or “static.” Thermostat basically means “keeps heat the same.” Thermostats connect to your HVAC

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