{"id":561,"date":"2008-09-17T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T15:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2012-02-15T20:51:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:51:44","slug":"hvac-for-your-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/hvac-for-your-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"HVAC For Your New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/product-ideas\/hvac.asp\">heat your home <\/a>will affect comfort, energy costs, air quality and the safety of a home for years to come. Since it&#8217;s a costly installation to any new home it makes good economic sense to look carefully at energy efficiency. Heating alone can account for more than 40 percent of your household energy costs, for larger homes and families, it&#8217;s as high as 65 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/heatingsystems.asp\">Read here <\/a>for\u00c2\u00a0helpful tips about different heating systems and\u00c2\u00a0their running costs and energy efficiency to help take the heat off of choosing the right system for your home.<\/p>\n<p>Improved window technology, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbuildingelements.com\/2008\/08\/22\/basics-to-building-a-better-home\/\" target=\"_self\">more efficient heating <\/a>and cooling equipment, better control of air infiltration, and greater use of insulation are helping decrease energy use in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deciding on how to heat your home will affect comfort, energy costs, air quality and the safety of a home for years to come. Since it&#8217;s a costly installation to any new home it makes good economic sense to look carefully at energy efficiency. Heating alone can account for more than 40 percent of your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}