Because we care about your comfort and safety, Marlin uses only high-quality products in the Air Conditioning and Heating services we provide you. When replacing equipment, you can count on American Standard and Broan for innovative excellence, energy efficiency, and reliability for your home or commercial environment.

As we replace equipment, there are many conditions we take into consideration for the best fit and performance. Below are key issues to consider:

• Proper product size and fit for each situation
• High efficiency for saving energy & money
• Products that make financial sense
• You have experts at Marlin, to help with your product selection
• Count on Marlin to provide reliable products/brands and to expertly install and service them

We are here for you every day for the installation, maintenance, and repair of your Air Conditioning and Heating needs.

BROAN Heating and Cooling Systems and American Standard deliver a vast selection of options for your home and commercial application. The product lines are built for longevity and high-efficiency. For Air conditioners, Heat pumps, Air handlers, Furnaces and more – they are brands to rely on.

Honeywell, Lyric Round thermostats work with your smartphone to control your home heating, air conditioning and more – from anywhere. These thermostats elevate wasted energy in your home or business with easy to control technology. Lyric thermostats provide the indoor environment you want, any time of day or night. Be comfortable and save energy and money.

For your best comfort and confidence, Marlin is proud to represent and install these brands and others. Count on Marlin for expert replacement, repair and maintenance of your mechanical equipment.

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Fall has arrived. September brought a welcome change of weather to Greater Phoenix, and now it’s time to clean up and maintain air conditioning systems and prepare heaters for cooler times. The typical summer of extreme heat also bestowed plenty of rain and thunderstorms on us. Our homes and their operating systems have taken a beating.

Keep in mind that air conditioning is not a luxury in our area. It’s a necessity, and it makes a significant difference to the health and comfort of all who live and visit. With this in mind, Marlin would like to remind you that mechanical systems need care and maintenance on a regular basis.

Below are valuable tips for caring and maintaining your air conditioning and heating equipment.

Replace Air Filters is the easiest way to help your maintain your air conditioner. It improves efficiency, promotes longer life of the unit, keeps air ducts cleaner, and improves air quality in the home. Best to change filters monthly.

Keep Air Vents Clean for less dust, and better airflow in the home. Vacuum and wipe down air vents as needed. Also, keep furniture and other object clear of air vents for proper airflow and can cause overheating of equipment.

A/C/Heater Inspection & Maintenance is essential for optimal performance of your system. Mechanical equipment needs proper care by the professionals once or twice per year. That goes for all major air conditioning, heating, and plumbing systems – it saves you time, costly repairs, and equipment replacement sooner than needed. Marlin’s Protection Plan is a good call for your inspection and maintenance.

Properly Program Your Programmable Thermostat to control inside temperatures any time of day or night. This makes your home comfortable, more efficient, and saves you $$.

Insulate For The Season, for your best comfort and home efficiency. Efficient home insulation helps prevent air from leaving your home as well as, from entering. Check and replace insulation in the attic, around windows, doors, and walls as needed. At least once per year is recommended.

Clean Up The Outside A/C Unit to prevent debris, leaves, shrubs, and trees from growing up around the unit and obstructing its efficient operation. Shrubs should be planted 2-3 feet away from the a/c unit.

Be sure to use expert and professional help for mechanical maintenance and repairs. You can do the light work yourself like changing filters, cleaning vents, adding insulation, and keeping vegetation and debris from around the outside unit.

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Indoor air quality remains a big concern as we spend so much time in our homes and businesses. Award winning REME HALO® is the next generation of in-duct air purifiers for improving indoor air quality (IAQ).

With current technologies, REME HALO® can purify every inch of air that your central air conditioning system reaches in your home and office. This technology helps reduce or eliminate the sick building syndrome. It is effective in whole-house and whole-building air purification and odor elimination. With the installation of this innovative product, you can reduce particulates like pollen, dander, dust, and mold spores – as well as allergy triggers. This product has been thoroughly tested against airborne and surface bacteria and viruses such as MRSA, e-Coli, and Norwalk.

Key benefits of REME HALO® include:

• Dual ionizers to reduce airborne particulates (dust, dander, pollen, mold spores)
• Kills up to 99% of bacteria, mold, and viruses
• REME® reduces sneeze germs by 99% in the time a sneeze can reach three feet.
• New zinc ions kill 99% of viruses on surfaces

Breathe easier with purified air for a healthier and more comfortable home and office. Marlin Services can be of service when it comes to the installation of this product.

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With a variety of heat sources such as furnaces, boilers, heat pumps, solar heating, and electric heating – it’s wise to understand a bit about the subject if you own a home or business. Heating/AC equipment is one of the largest investments you make in home and office. As you know, heating and cooling is essential in maintaining comfort and a healthy temperature for those residing or working in a home or business. Energy.gov is a great source for information in this area and Marlin is always available to assist with your questions, maintenance, repair, or replacement of your heating/ac equipment.

This chart is a useful resource, providing a brief and basic understanding of various heat sources for you. Note the various types of heating here and see the efficiencies, life expectancy, fuel used, and pros and cons of each. This is quite helpful when it’s time to replace a system or simply for your knowledge and information. See the entire chart: http://tinyurl.com/hofybkv

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Mechanical equipment in your home or business can develop interesting sounds, especially if the system has not been maintained on a regular basis. Our heaters and furnaces work hard to keep us warm in winter, and it’s up to us to properly maintain the mechanical equipment. Proper care of our equipment helps extend its longevity and helps prevent malfunctions in the heating and furnace.

Occasionally, you might hear curious sounds coming from the furnace and here are some of the sounds and their causes.

• A Screeching sound can indicate a problem with your motor or fan belt.

• A Chirping can be common in some furnaces. It can be a natural sound in the mechanisms.

 • A Pinging sound in the furnace can be caused from expanding and contracting ducts.

 • Booming sounds can be the result of weather warming and cooling. If this should occur and your furnace smells as though it’s
burning – there could be a dirty burner in the furnace – or possibly a defective gas valve.

 • Rattling sounds can typically occur when a system is heating and is not normally cause for alarm.

Once you hear sounds that give you cause for concern, be sure to call
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How Do You Calculate SEER?

Do you even know what that means, even if you do know how to calculate it?

Cooling BTUs and the amount of electricity a cooling unit uses per hour are crucial when determining a unit’s SEER ratings. An inefficient unit will have less cooling capacity/power (indicated by the cooling BTUs) and use up more watts of electricity per hour during the summer.

And buying the proper size unit for the size of your home is vital. If you purchase a unit that is more than you really need (in other words, too big), you are merely spending more money than necessary and it will not cool your house better or more efficiently. Read more on the subject of the correct size unit for your home here: https://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=roomac.pr_properly_sized.

Back to the question – How do you calculate SEER?

BTUs/hr x 1,000 hr  /  Watts/hr x 1,000 hr  =  SEER

Simply stated, SEER stands for the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio. This is a measure of any cooling system’s cooling efficiency over the course of a season of use – be it an air conditioner or heat pump. That is, how efficiently the system cools your home.

Frigidaire’s air conditioners and heat pumps offer a range of efficiency options – all the way up to 25.5 SEER! This means that there is a cooling system that suits any budget or need. An air conditioner may cost more if it is a higher SEER, but you will have a greater potential to save money on utilities if you install a cooling system with high SEER ratings, in the long run.

Investing in Efficiency Can Save Money –

Although the techy details aren’t as important, it is always good to know why a high-efficiency unit will have a higher SEER ratings. A more efficient system will have more power behind it while using less electricity. This is why investing in a high-SEER system can pay off in utility savings over the life of your HVAC system. Your cooling unit will use less energy and give you more power. Old, inefficient units from the past may only be rated at 10 SEER. This means that simply upgrading to a budget-friendly 14-SEER air conditioner or heat pump, which is the minimum SEER rating required by the government for the Southwest United States, can have money-saving performance benefits when installed correctly.

We are always ready and available to answer any questions you may have on this subject. The hot summer weather is just around the corner. Be prepared with the best knowledge and don’t overspend if you don’t have to.

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In the summer, you do all you can to stay cool in the hot summer days of Arizona. In the fall and winter, even though we do not get bone-chilling cold days like the east coast and mid-west, you still want to get the most out of your HVAC system (air conditioner in the warm weather and furnace in the colder weather). You want to save energy and be sure the heat is not getting out, causing your utility bills to skyrocket. There are simple things you can do to stay warm and save energy:

• Install a programmable thermostat – If you haven’t done so already, consider a programmable thermostat. As you do in the summer, you can control the temperature in your house by reducing the energy usage during the daytime hours, while your home is empty during school and work time.
• Replace your filters each month – As you do in the summer months, clean air filters will allow your heating system to work well, as efficiently as possible and even help extend the life of your system. With an efficient system, this will help you save money on monthly utility bills.
• Schedule your bi-annual preventive maintenance servicing – A great time to do your preventive maintenance servicing is when the weather is not too hot or too cold, so that you prevent issues that may arise. You don’t want to be forced to call your HVAC professional in the 100+ degree weather or, conversely, on the coldest day of the year.
• Seal air leaks – You want to be sure no heat is escaping through windows, doors or at the base of doorways.
• Keep curtains and shades open during the day – And close them at night. Take advantage of the natural sunshine during daytime hours when you have the thermostat set for minimal heat.
• Change thermostat batteries – The change of seasons (fall and spring) are a great time to change the batteries in the thermostat to be sure they are operating properly.

As you can see, these steps outlined above are simple. They can make a difference in your comfort at home.

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You likely have heard this before and it is not merely a sales pitch. Now is the perfect time for preventive maintenance on your HVAC system – when the weather is not too warm in the spring, before the heat of the AZ summer kicks in and in the fall before the cooler weather starts. It is similar to your annual physical check-up with your doctor. In both cases, it is far better to be sure all is operating properly before big problems build up than to wait and have to fix a big problem after the fact. This is especially true of your Air Conditioning/Heating system.

The benefits of an annual “check-up” far outweigh the costs of the annual preventive maintenance service appointment. You will enjoy:

• Lower energy bills – When your system is maintained properly it is performing at its optimum level and highest efficiency. That translates into savings on your energy bill.
• Extended life of your system – When your system is performing at its optimum level on a regular basis because you have been properly maintaining it, you give your system its best chance to live a longer life. This is because it is working most efficiently and with less stress on multiple moving parts that are necessary to have a well operating system.
• Lower repair costs – When you regularly examine your system, you are likely to catch small fixes before they grow to a larger, far more costly problem. Even small issues cause stress to the other moving parts in your system and can eventually lead to a larger problem. Solving these smaller problems now contributes immediately to lower energy bills and extended life for your system.

Marlin Services does a 17-Point Tune Up in order to cover all the important items that should be checked to avoid a system break down. This includes:

• Check thermostat operation
• Clean or replace filter (customer supplied)
• Check system temperature split
• Check Freon level
• Inspect fused disconnect
• Inspect wiring and tighten electrical connections
• Inspect contactor, relays and pressure contacts
• Inspect electrical safety circuits
• Check voltage and amperage to all motors
• Inspect indoor blower and motor for dirt buildup
• Inspect bearings and lubricate all moving parts (as required)
• Inspect belt and adjust tension (as required)
• Inspect and clean condensate drain
• Inspect outdoor coil
• Inspect duct seal at unit and secure panel
• Explain and document all necessary repairs
• Run and test system

For a variety of reasons, it just makes good sense to practice preventive maintenance and to do it when you are not in desperate need for servicing or repair – particularly in the 100+ degree summer weather we have here.

And don’t forget to change your air filters regularly! This is such a simple thing to do and it will help greatly in properly maintaining your HVAC system.

Here are some good articles and an infographic to check out regarding the importance and benefits of a well maintained HVAC system:
http://www.energy.gov/energysaver/articles/maintaining-your-air-conditioner

http://home-repair.yoexpert.com/heating-and-cooling/how-can-i-benefit-from-air-conditioning-preventive-5279.html

http://visual.ly/benefits-well-maintained-ac-system

https://www.ashrae.org/resources–publications/free-resources/top-ten-things-about-air-conditioning#5

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We have spoken about programmable thermostats because it’s a great way to control the temperatures in your house and ultimately, it helps to reduce the use of unnecessary energy and saves money. There are so many other very simple steps you can take to save energy and therefore, save money. Let’s look at many of them.

1. Programmable Thermostats – We’ll start there because it’s a great tool to control temperatures when you don’t need the heat to be running at a high temperature – when you are out at school and work during the day and while you sleep at night, as a couple of examples.
2. Turn Down the Thermostat – For every degree that you turn down to within the 60-70 degree range, you can save 5% on your energy bill.
3. Replace Air Filters Regularly – Keeping your filter clean allows for the energy to flow more easily, taxing your system less.
4. Reduce the Water Heater to 120 Degrees – Keeping the setting at 120 degrees can save 7-11% annually on your heating bill. The EPA recommends setting your water heater to 120 degrees to help prevent scalding and to save energy.
5. Seal Leaks – Seal windows, doors, pipes, vents or electrical conduits that go through the wall, ceiling or floor.
6. Replace Old HVAC System with an EnergyStar Product – When it’s time for a new system, consider replacing it with a new EnergyStar unit. The same goes with household appliances.
7. Proper Maintenance – Have your system checked once to twice a year on a regularly scheduled maintenance program. A system that is running efficiently will save you money.

Here are some ideas that are completely free, quite simple and can also help save on the energy bill:

1. Let the Sun In – During the day when the sunshine is at its best, open the blinds and shades and let the sun in.
2. Keep the Damper Shut – If you have a wood burning fireplace, keep the damper closed when not in use. If you decide not to use the fireplace at all, place a piece of rigid insulation in the damper to seal it off tightly. It can be purchased in any hardware store.
3. Keep the Heat Inside – Be sure doors and windows are closed when the heat is on.
4. Bundle Up – Wear socks, sweaters and other warm items when you are a little cold. The shorts can wait for the Arizona summers.
5. Keep Windows Covered When It’s Dark Out – In the daytime, let the sunshine in. When night falls, close the blinds and shades to keep the cold outside.
6. Check the Exterior of Your Heating Unit – Be sure your HVAC unit is clear of grass, dirt, leaves and anything else that could be surrounding it. Hose it down to clear out the debris.
7. Do a Little Detective Work – Light a candle and walk around the house, near doors and windows and see if you see the flame flickering. If it flickers, you have discovered leaks.

Get started to energy savings. It’s not difficult to do!

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The heating and cooling of your home account for 56% of all your energy costs, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. There are steps you can take to help with your efforts to save money and use less energy. We talk about these things often, but it’s worth repeating.

• Regular maintenance of your heating and A/C system will help to keep your system running efficiently and help save money as a result.
• Maintain a comfortable level of temperature in your home while you are there. When you leave the house for work, school or multiple continuous hours, be sure to adjust the thermostat so that you are not wasting heat or air conditioning in an empty house. In the colder months, if you adjust your thermostat 10-15 degrees for 8 hours at a time, while you are out of the house, you can save 5%-15% annually.
• Install programmable thermostats. This will help you control your temperatures when you are not home.
• Seal your home for energy leaks, in both the cold and warm months so you do not lose precious heating or air conditioning. Windows, doors and drafty areas can cost you in lost energy.
• Change air filters regularly. Clean air filters will help your system run efficiently and effectively and will help save money as a result.
• Using window coverings can help in your energy efficient efforts. By opening the blinds and curtains, you bring in natural sunlight to help warm the house in the cooler months and closing them in the summer months will keep the house cooler.
• Replace older systems (when it is time and no longer operating at its optimum performance) with ENERGY STAR®, energy efficient products. And be sure they are installed properly by a qualified HVAC professional, or you could lose up to 30% of the system’s efficiency with an improper installation.

When you install a new, energy efficient system, here are some helpful guidelines for your furnace and air conditioning units for long-term savings:

• For furnaces: You want to look for high Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency (AFUE) ratings and the national minimum is 78% AFUE. Some ENERGY STAR® models on the market currently exceed 90% AFUE.
• For air conditioners: You want to look for a high Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER). The current minimum is 13 SEER for central air conditioners. However there are ENERGY STAR models on the market currently at 14.5 SEER or more.

Ultimately, it’s the combination of using new, modern, energy efficient products and some simple steps you can take that will make a difference in your energy use and reduce your energy bills.

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