There are so many chores to be done around the house in the winter. With a long to-do list, it’s easy for out-of-sight, out-of-mind tasks to slip through the cracks. Checking your oil tank gauge is easy to forget until you run out of heating oil in the middle of a Long Island winter. What happens to your furnace when you run out of oil, and what should you do when it does?

Now that we’re firmly in the middle of winter, many of us are finding ourselves very thankful for our home heating. And this winter may be one that we’re grateful for our home heating in particular as we are likely looking at below-average temperatures compared to recent years despite the possibility of less snowfall. This is a result of La Niña conditions which often create colder weather in the northeast. Knowing we’re going to be […]

An important and often overlooked way to extend HVAC lifetime is one of the simplest to implement – changing your filters. It is also one of the more neglected aspects of maintenance, probably because people don’t realize just how essential it is.

With weather extremes becoming more and more normal for Nassau and Suffolk counties, everyone we know is looking for the most energy-efficient ways to heat and cool their homes. So when people ask us about heat pumps, and whether they can cool your home, the answer is, “Let’s talk about heat pumps.” When you have a heat pump installed by Tragar, you are not looking at simply a heat exchanger that moves cool air from […]