July 2025 - Title: Carbon Monoxide, Oversized Furnaces, and Why Fireplaces Lie to You
WYSL/ Wise Home Energy Show
Jeff Flaherty opens with the summer electric bill rush and RG&E's latest rate increase request, then pivots to a city four-square home in Rochester where a contractor insulated everything except the critical two-foot slopes around the knee walls, leaving surface temperatures hitting 107 degrees on a hot day. He also walks through a boiler test that read over 2,000 parts per million of carbon monoxide, a number so high the meter just stopped counting, traced back to a wood-burning fireplace pulling so much air that the combustion byproducts were backing up into the home. Plus why the "this has been serviced" claim on a 20-year-old AC unit with dead mice in the furnace means nothing without a real checklist, why heat pumps aren't automatically cheaper than a high efficiency gas furnace, and why fireplaces make one room feel great while quietly making the rest of the house colder. Jeff also teases an upcoming website feature that would let homeowners plug in their home specs and get a ballpark equipment size range.
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