What Is a Heat Pump? An air source heat pump on the side of a home being installed in the North East of England. The house is aiming to be sustainable. There is a construction worker with a hard hat and reflective jacket holding a digital tablet, talking to the home owner who is showing her documents.

What Is a Heat Pump?

March 14, 2025

What’s the best way to preserve resources? Working with what you already have. Heat pumps make your Kittanning home more comfortable by using heat that already exists. It pushes heat from outdoors to indoors (to warm) or pulls heat from indoors to outdoors (to cool).

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How to Keep Warm During Extreme Cold Weather

How to Keep Warm During Extreme Cold Weather

February 28, 2025

With the record-low temperatures and extreme conditions most of the country is currently experiencing, our MW Mechanical Services professionals want to share some insights and tips with you to keep your indoors warm cozy while Old Man Winter blusters away outdoors.

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The use of gas as heating at home in winter, the cold season. The concept, the model of the house stands near the flame of a gas boiler.

How Does My Gas Furnace Work?

February 14, 2025

Our team at MW Mechanical Services could help you save big bucks on your monthly utility bill by performing a furnace replacement.

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What’s That Smell Coming From My Furnace? Photo of a man holding his phone, sitting on his couch and looking out a window, seemingly concerned.

What’s That Smell Coming From My Furnace?

January 31, 2025

If your furnace is producing a strange smell, you should always treat it with caution. While the cause for the odor may be benign, it could just as easily be harmful to inhale. When in doubt, always open windows to ensure ventilation, and evacuate your Kittanning home.

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Why Is the Furnace Pilot Light Going Out? Gas burner flame abstraction long exposure.

Why Is the Furnace Pilot Light Going Out?

January 14, 2025

This issue happens more often than not with older furnaces, and it could be a sign you are ready to upgrade your Kittanning home’s heating and cooling system with a new model. At the 10-year mark, furnaces start to lose efficiency and begin breaking down more frequently.

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Zone Your Way to Comfort. Person using home automation to control lighting, heating, air conditioning ... etc in modern apartment with fireplace, large windows with blinds, wooden floor and concrete ceiling.

Zone Your Way to Comfort

December 29, 2024

Imagine having the power to control the temperature in every room of your home like a maestro conducting an orchestra. With a zone control system, you can! Gone are the days of battling over the thermostat or choosing between freezing in one room or melting in another.

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How to Lower Your Winter Heating Bill

How to Lower Your Winter Heating Bill

December 9, 2024

Wintertime is here. That means your family will be spending more time indoors to stay warm.
Let’s face it: running your furnace gets expensive. Heating alone accounts for over 40 percent of the average American’s utility bill, according to a US Department of Energy (DOE) analysis. Staying warm can be a costly proposition.

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Transitioning Your Heat Pump. Close-up of black full inverter heat pump outside in the garden, near wooden pool house on a sunny day. Lens flare on the image.

Transitioning Your Heat Pump

November 29, 2024

One reason Pennsylvania homeowners love heat pumps is they function as an all-in-one unit. Instead of purchasing and maintaining a separate furnace and air conditioning system, you can simply transition your heat pump from the heat setting to the cooling setting and vice versa as seasons warrant.

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Why Isn’t My Furnace Heating My Entire Home? Photo of a family of three, cold and under a blanket to try and keep warm in their living room.

Why Isn’t My Furnace Heating My Entire Home?

November 18, 2024

If your furnace seems to be producing heat inconsistently around your New Kensington home to you, you’re not alone. Many homes have varied conditions from room to room, causing spotty heating or cooling. On cold days, this can be a nuisance. You may be confined to only a few rooms in your home, or you…

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Prepping Your Plumbing for Winter. Frozen pipes.

Prepping Your Plumbing for Winter

October 28, 2024

Imagine this winter, sitting in your Pittsburgh home by the fire, looking out the window at the falling snowflakes while sipping your hot cocoa with marshmallows. Life is good. It is good, that is, until you hear the loud rush of water somewhere in your Pennsylvania home.

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