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Don’t Miss One of the Best Parts of Living in Johnson County

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Don’t Miss One of the Best Parts of Living in Johnson County

In less than a month we will once again be loading up our Big Yellow Truck with more than 50 POUNDS of candy and heading to downtown Olathe.  Why?  One of the best events of the year: The Johnson County Old Settler’s Parade.  The Johnson County Old Settlers Parade is the largest parade in the state of Kansas and never disappoints as a fun, family-friendly event for all ages.

The parade takes place on September 8, 2018 and begins around 8am, but get there early to get a good seat and to get goodies like the candy our technicians will be giving out along the route.  The parade route begins at the corner of KANSAS and LOULA Streets, goes EAST to CHESTNUT then NORTH to PARK then EAST and ends at BUCHANAN Street.

This is without a doubt one of our favorite events along with the Jared Coones Pumpkin Run where we get to meet and connect with our clients at a fun event and just give away free stuff!

The 5 Warning Signs It’s Time to Clean Your Dryer Vent

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dryerventcleaningImagine waking up to see that your house is on fire—and then to find out later that the fire could have been easily prevented. The culprit: You needed a dryer vent cleaning! According to the National Fire Protection Association, in 2010-2014, U.S. municipal fire departments responded to an estimated 15,970 home fires involving clothes dryers or washing machines each year.

These fires resulted in annual losses estimated at 13 civilian deaths, 440 civilian injuries, and $238 million in direct property damage.

So how do you know if your dryer vent system is clogged and perhaps a ticking time bomb?

Check out our list below of 5 Warning Signs that it’s Time to Clean Your Clothes Dryer Vent.

1. Drying time for clothes takes longer and longer.

When a dryer vent is clogged, the drying cycle can double or triple in time. You’ll notice that clothes are not completely dry at the end of a regular cycle. A dryer is designed to push out the hot moist air for clothing to dry. If your vent is blocked by lint, the air will stay in your dryer keeping your clothes hot and moist. And when it takes twice as long to dry clothes, your dryer runs longer, putting more wear and tear on it and therefore cutting the machine’s life in half.

2. Your clothing and the outside of the dryer are very hot.

Do you notice that your clothing is very hot at the end of a cycle or the dryer is hot to touch? This warning sign means the vent is not exhausting properly. If your system is clogged, it not only wastes energy, but can cause the heating element and blower in the dryer to wear out faster.

3. You notice a burning smell.

When you run your dryer do you smell a burning odor? Lint, which is very flammable, can build up in the exhaust tube, lint trap and even in the drum casing. If it gets too hot, it can catch on fire, causing a burning smell.

4. The vent hood flap doesn’t open properly.

Another visual red flag that you’re due for a cleaning: You can see lint or debris around the dryer hose or outside vent opening: or the duct hood flap does not open as it is designed to do. An outside vent that doesn’t open when the dryer is running means air flow has been restricted due to lint buildup.

5. It’s been longer than a year since your last inspection.

Dryer vent ducts should be inspected at least once a year to reduce the risk of fires and carbon monoxide poisoning.

For the month of March One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning is offering Dryer Vent Cleaning Specials that vary on the size of your home.
Please call 913-829-1505 for details and pricing.

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One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning of Olathe, KS Earns Esteemed 2017 Angie’s List Super Service Award

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One Hour Wins Service AwardOne Hour Heating and Air Conditioning is proud to announce that it has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award (SSA). This award honors service professionals who have maintained exceptional service ratings and reviews on Angie’s List in 2017.

“The service providers that receive our Angie’s List Super Service Award demonstrate the level of excellence that members have come to expect,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks. “These pros are top-notch and absolutely deserve recognition for the trustworthy and exemplary customer service they exhibited in the past year and overall.”

Angie’s List Super Service Award 2017 winners have met strict eligibility requirements, which include maintaining an “A” rating in overall grade, recent grade and review period grade. The SSA winners must be in good standing with Angie’s List, pass a background check, record a current trade license attestation and abide by Angie’s List operational guidelines.

“We are very proud to have won the Angie’s List Super Service Award again this year.” Said Ramon Blachly, Owner of One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning of Olathe. “We focus most of our time on training our technicians in technical ability as well as communication. We want to make sure that we are sending the best possible people with the best possible training into our customer’s homes. That focus on training is noticed by our clients and we are humbled that they take the time out of their day to write a complimentary review of us in order to make this award possible.”

Service company ratings are updated continually on Angie’s List as new, verified consumer reviews are submitted. Companies are graded on an A through F scale in multiple fields ranging from price to professionalism to punctuality.

To add your review click here: www.angieslist.com/review/114311

Study Finds MicroPower Guard Dramatically Reduces Risk of Influenza Infection

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micropowerguard air cleanerIn a study done by Environmental Health and Engineering, Inc.* researchers set out to measure the potential exposure benefits of whole house high efficiency in-duct air cleaners for sensitive subpopulations such as those who have asthma or severe allergies.  The results indicated that the use of high efficiency in-duct air cleaners provide an effective means of controlling allergen levels not only in a single room, like a portable air cleaner, but the whole house.

The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation recommends the use of portable air cleaners in bedrooms of asthmatics.  While the use of portable air cleaners in the bedroom did prove to be beneficial in the study, the researchers found that in reality, the use of high efficiency in-duct air cleaners provide a more effective means of controlling allergen levels and the influenza virus not only in a single room, but the whole house.

Perhaps the most interesting result from the study involves the estimation of the risk of influenza infection from an individual who remains in the home over the course of a five-day infectious period with someone who currently has the illness.  Since influenza can trigger asthma, the researchers were interested in the effect of high efficiency filters on the transmission of the illness.

The study assumed that the infectious individual spent one-half of their time in the bedroom and the other half in the family room, while a healthy individual spent 69% of the corresponding time indoors at the home during which they were exposed to the house-wide average concentration of quanta in air.  For this scenario, the risk of infection by influenza was greater than 30% in the ventilation configuration with a portable air cleaner in both of the two rooms frequented by the infectious individual.  In comparison, the risk of infection was less than 4% for the high efficiency in-duct system.

The “high efficiency air cleaner” used in this study was a high efficiency electrostatic air cleaner with HEPA-like removal efficiency for aerosols.  One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning has this product for your home as well as more options that add even more protection for the health of your indoor air.

If you are interested in options on high efficiency filters please call 913-829-1505.

*Control of asthma triggers in indoor air with air cleaners: a modeling analysis, Published on August 6,  2008.

How Does a MicroPowerGuard Electronic Air Cleaner Work? Watch this short video:

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The MicroPower Guard electronic air cleaner removes 97% of airborne particles that can contaminate your indoor air, making it safer and more comfortable for your family to breath. This includes allergens such as pollen, biological materials, and dust mite pellets. The air cleaner also eliminates contaminants that other filters miss, including bacteria, smoke and other odors.

An Extra Way to Give Back to the Pumpkin Run

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ticker-pumpkin-runTomorrow is the big day for the Jared Coones Memorial 5k Pumpkin Run/Walk.  We are happy to be sponsors again this year and tomorrow we will be doing something different.

If you come to our booth and take your picture with our mascot “Ticker”, post the photo to your Facebook page, tag us, and we’ll donate an extra $5 for each post!  This will help us promote the Pumpkin Run and give extra money to a wonderful and needed local charity.

 

New Way to Help the Jared Coones Memorial 5K Pumpkin Run/Walk

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One Hour Pumpkin RunFor the past 19 years the annual Jared Coones Memorial 5K Pumpkin Run/Walk has celebrated family and community by coming together to honor the lives of Jared and Jayne Coones and their courageous battles against cancer while also raising money to support cancer patients and their families!

They’ve grown from a humble 550 participants in their first year to over 3,600+ participants in 2016 and they have raised over $700,000 with 100% of the proceeds going to local charities! The mission of the Pumpkin Run is not to be the biggest 5K in Kansas City but to be the best family event in the area.

They have seen the vision and passion for this event embraced by thousands of caring volunteers, sponsors and participants; which is evident by the fact that many of their sponsors, participants and volunteers have been with them from the very start. They not only continue to come back but also bring their family and friends with them for incredible growth each year.

Today we welcomed Tom Coones, loving husband, father, and friend to One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning this morning for our technicians’ training to tell his story and explain to us the joy he has for this special day. He also provided us with details on how to register to join this AMAZING event.

As a sponsor for the last 9 years, we continue to support this event and we ask for your support as well. With that being said, we will be collecting any financial contribution during our service/maintenance calls; no obligations of course, however, any donation big or small goes a long way.

We are so glad to have had Tom come in and welcome him back anytime. If you would like more information on the story or the 5K event, you can click on the link and it will direct you to the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/PumpkinRun/ OR their website http://www.pumpkinrunwalk.org/

4 Simple Tips For Extreme Heat

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Residential air conditioner units are designed to achieve a 20 degree temperature drop. Therefore if it is more than 95 degrees outside, your air conditioning unit may run all day and still struggle to keep your home cooler than 75 degrees.  Here are some tips that can help:

Tips for Extreme Heat

Popular Psychiatrist Recommends Annual Duct Cleaning and Hepa Filters to Help Combat Depression

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Dr. Kelly Brogan, a Board certified Psychiatrist and a practitioner of integrative holistic medicine, said in her book “A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives,” that in order to combat the toxic fumes from furniture, electronics, and household goods that can affect your health people should do the following:

  1. Ventilate your home well and install HEPA air filters if possible.
  2. Change your air-conditioning and heating filters every three to six months.
  3. Get the ducts cleaned yearly.
  4. Avoid air deodorizers and plug-in room fresheners.
  5. Request that people take off their shoes when they enter your house.
  6. Reduce toxic dust and residues that you cannot see or smell from furniture, electronics, and textiles by using a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter.
  7. Keep as many plants in your home as possible, as they naturally detoxify the environment.  Spider plants, aloe vera, chrysanthemums, Gerbera daisies, Boston ferns, English ivies, and philodendrons are good choices.  Use fifteen to twenty plants per 1,800 square feet.

Dr. Brogan’s book links nutrition, toxic environments and activity levels to depression as well as other common health issues.  Her goals for people to help to heal themselves include:

  • Introduce a new way of nourishing your body through the foods you eat.
  • Green your home and environment, divorcing yourself from the modern love affair with toxicants.
  • Incorporate a daily meditative practice into your life, one that stimulates the body’s natural relaxation response and paves the way for lasting transformation.
  • Prioritize getting routine restful sleep and adequate exercise throughout the week.

At One Hour, we have seen the benefits of cleaning the air in your home.  Our homes are so “tight” that indoor air quality is much more polluted than outdoor air due to the chemicals in our homes.  For this reason, we offer duct cleaning, duct sealing and high quality HEPA and MicroPower Air Filters to clean the air of toxins, dust and allergens.

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