by Joseph Miller | Oct 14, 2026 | Blogs
About twice a week in the spring, someone in Montgomery County asks me the same question while I am standing in their hallway with a flashlight: “Should we get the ducts cleaned?” Usually a coupon showed up in the mailbox that week. Sometimes a neighbor...
by Joseph Miller | Oct 7, 2026 | Blogs
Most mold calls I get do not start with the word mold. They start with “my house smells like a wet towel when the AC kicks on.” Sometimes the homeowner has already pulled a vent cover, seen black specks, and spent a night reading scary things online. I...
by Joseph Miller | Sep 30, 2026 | Blogs
Most of the first-year homeowners I meet in The Woodlands call me in month seven. They closed in January. The house felt fine all spring. Then the first 98-degree afternoon shows up in July, the upstairs will not hold 74, and they find out what they actually bought....
by Joseph Miller | Sep 23, 2026 | Blogs
Every year around the middle of February, and again in late September, I start getting a version of the same call. The house is cool, the system is running fine, and somebody in the family cannot stop sneezing. They ask me whether the air conditioner is making it...
by Joseph Miller | Sep 16, 2026 | Blogs
Most of the no-cool calls I run in July trace back to something a spring tune-up would have caught. A capacitor that was already reading low. A drain line half full of sludge. An outdoor coil packed with oak pollen and grass clippings. Those parts wear down for...
by Joseph Miller | Sep 9, 2026 | Blogs
I get asked about smart thermostats more than any other upgrade in this county. It comes up at the end of a maintenance visit. The homeowner points at the beige rectangle in the hallway and says a neighbor put in a Nest and swears the summer bill dropped by a hundred...
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