by Joe Levitch | Feb 23, 2019 | HVAC
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe flame sensor was an ingenious solution to a serious safety problem. On a GAS furnace, they provide an incredible safety feature when they are working right. When they aren’t they become a menace and cause silly service calls. For some...
by Joe Levitch | Jan 27, 2019 | Fixing things, HVAC, Indoor Air Quality
Reading Time: 2 minutesA client called to report a hot exhaust wall in their bathroom. Naturally fire and Carbon monoxide poison come to mind. The GAS water heater exhaust and the 80% furnace exhausts commingle and go up and out of the home in a double walled oval...
by Joe Levitch | Jan 1, 2019 | Indoor Air Quality, Problem Solving, Understanding your home
Reading Time: 3 minutesI have always enjoyed understanding building science and have dabbled in the realm of an amateur of sorts trying to discover what is causing a home to make a resident feel ill when they are inside of it. Being a former Paramedic, I blend my...
by Joe Levitch | Oct 24, 2018 | Electrical
Reading Time: 2 minutesThree way switches used to frighten me, they seemed so complicated. I found a great residential electrical book and redrew the diagram several times until I thought I had it figured out. Inevitably, I ended up not trusting myself and randomly...
by Joe Levitch | Oct 6, 2018 | Levco Builders Process, Remodel Design and Planning, The Law
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is the $64,000 question. It is asked in so many ways and so unlikely to get an accurate answer that I had to find out for myself. Everyone thinks I know this stuff anyway, so I might as well. If the answer were easy, we would all know it....
