Derek Cole walks through five secrets to prevent HVAC breakdowns, focusing on sealing duct systems to cut energy loss by up to 20 percent. He explains an aerosol-based sealing process and shows before/after improvements, then invites listeners to download the free PDF at simmons1hour.com.
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Foreign. I'm Derek Cole, host of the Derek Cole Podcast and we believe in taking the time to explain how things work for your air at home or your business. And we also believe you deserve clean air in that home. And that is why we founded the Healthy Home Challenge. It's a five day online video series with daily emails, worksheets and even quick action steps you can take to protect you, your family and your co workers. If you haven't joined us yet, you can sign up. It's free to free five day access. You can go to Simmons One Hour Comm. You'll see a link to learn more about indoor air. You've probably known for a while that you need better indoor air at home or at work. After all, we spend 90% of our time indoors these days. Your breakthrough awaits at Simmons One Hour Comm. Now let's get into today's episode. Please listen closely and maybe even take some notes so you can remember these insights of home comfort and energy savings. And share this episode with three of your friends because we all need to share better ways to be more comfortable at home. Be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram Derek Mcole so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening and let's begin. Foreign. Talk about another secret in our new PDF, the five secrets to help prevent breakdowns. And that is sealing your duct system. Sealing your duct system is one of the five secrets to help prevent breakdowns. Your duct system is. Well, your duct system is a part of your. There's three parts to a home, okay? There's three parts to your comfort. It's the unit. It's the duct system, air distribution or duct system. And it's the envelope, the home itself. So if one of those three are off the unit, the duct system or the home, meaning it needs insulation, there's a gap in the roof. There's a problem with the siding. There's a problem with the crawl space. If one of those three are off, you're not going to be comfortable. So to go back to the duct system and sealing your duck, Energy Star says now. Energy Star, not me. Energy Star says that you can save as much as 20% by sealing or insulating your existing duct system. That is how much air you are probably losing because your duct system has holes. Gaps where screws are in, where joints are put together. It's not sealed. It's very, it's very difficult and it's not even cost effective to have someone manually seal your duct system. Paint mastic on joints and everything and try to, try to reseal it that way. The process we use to seal your dosage is a machine, a computer, and it's measuring off of air loss. So when it detects that loss, it then shoots out an aerosol. It's a glue material. It's the same material babies have in baby pacifiers. It's very safe. It's the same type of glue that goes to those holes or those joints wherever you're losing air. And that's what it's attacking, and that's what it's sealing. We have been to homes before. There's been, you know, 20% loss in air, meaning you are paying, you're paying 100% of the air that comes out of your unit. So for every dollar of air you're paying for, you're actually getting 80 cent coming out of the grill inside the home, you're losing that much. 20%. That person was losing, was losing 20%. So for every dollar they spent in AC, they were only getting a return of 80 cent. Not very good. We got finished, it was about 3 to 5%. I can't remember the exact number, but it was in that range. So let's just say was on the high side, it was only 5%. It was only 5% when we got done. So for every dollar they spent, they now had 95 cent in the home versus 80 cent in the home. Big be different. So how does that help prevent a breakdown? Well, dirt is the number one killer of the ACs and furnaces. So the main thing you want to focus on is keeping the dirt out. There's many, many things you can do, but one of the most important things you can do is seal your duct system, because that is where most of your air is being lost. So if the air is coming out the unit at 100%, going down that duct system, leaving and going somewhere else, the unit is going to bring the air back it needs. You want to be clean, crisp air from your home, not dirty air or sucking it from the crawl space or sucking it from the attic. You don't want it to be the dirty air that can then make your unit dirty, which will then make it work harder. You spend more money on energy, you'll have more breakdowns because your unit is having to work harder because of the dirt buildup. So we talked about surfacing your unit, cleaning your unit. This is one of those, you know, five secrets. Sealing your duct system to help prevent breeding, because you want to bring back clean, filtered air back to unit, back to unit, and prevent that dust and dirt buildup so it doesn't have to work as hard. So that's one of the five Secrets. You can go to Simmons or One Hour Comm. Simmons One Hour Comm. You'll see a link down there for the five Secrets. Free PDF Free download. Free PDF download. Get your copy. You can download it from that page after you. You'll be taken to a page or in your email address. You'll be taken to a download page. You can download from there. I will also send you an email. You can access it and download it from that email link I send you. Or you can save it, print it however you want to consume it, but check it out because it's free content. Five Secrets to help prevent breakdowns I know last week was very very hot. It got very hot before it cooled back down to the 80s. So hopefully that was a warning sign to if you were not as cool as you would like. Something needs to be tweaked, adjusted. There's also a link in the email to the to the PDF free download. That PDF also has the Healthy Home Challenge in it and tells you how you can sign for that. But that is something I would also recommend because it's free. Five day access and it's it's me, William Skipper comes on day three. We talk about air filters, filtration, air cleaning, duct systems, duct cleaning, duct sealing, UV lights, ozone, all kind of things, all that free videos, free worksheets as daily email guidance for me. I'm going through day by day as to what we're talking about. Links to the free content and downloads you can get. Because something it is something very important and something you can easily handle. And according to Energy Star, as far as duck selling, you're losing as much as is 20% capacity because of duct loss. And it's one of the biggest things you can do to turn that around is to seal your duct system. Alright, take care. If you need anything and you sign up for the PDF or for the Healthy Home Challenge, I will send you an email. Just respond back that email, it comes right to me and we'll get you taken care of. All right, Take care. Okay. I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Derek Cole Podcast. Tell some people about this episode. It's on each of us really to spread the better ways to be healthier and more comfortable in our homes and workspaces. I'm asking you to be the dealer of positive and life changing messages in your circle of influence. Take a screenshot right now and share the screenshot and the link to this episode with three of your friends today. Share on social Media Use the hashtag Healthy Home. That's Healthy Home. We are always giving away shout outs prizes to our community. If you would like to help me personally then please rate and review on Apple podcast. Give us some stars. Leave a review because that stuff actually does help and I read all the comments. So my last thought for today please remember you deserve better air at home and and greater comfort at home. Don't settle for being uncomfortable for your heating air every single month. We are so thankful for having you here in our community and be sure to go deeper with us@simmons1hour.com.
