The AC Goodie Bag
Winter Readiness: Top 5 Ways To Prepare Your Roof For Winter
by Chuck Miller on 09/01/15Preparing your home for winter is a task that is often overlooked by the average homeowner. In fact 1 in every 3 homeowners take little or no time preparing their homes for the winter months.
What we tend to forget is a simple old adage: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
With the 2015 winter season fast approaching, getting together a "home preparation plan" NOW can save you hundreds—if not thousands—of dollars in the future repair work.
Here is some very helpful advice that any homeowner can put into action well before the arrival of winter.
1. Clean Those Gutters! Seems like a pretty self-explanatory thing to do, right? But how many of us actually do this before the colder months arrive? Cleaning your gutters even well into the winter months can protect your fascia board and help prevent ice dams from forming.
2. Install Attic Insulation: Again, it seems like a no-brainer when in fact it's very easily overlooked. Installing or upgrading your attic insulation can help reduce unwanted loss of heat via the roof, which in turn, can help reduce soaring energy bills.
Aside from curbing your bills, upgrading or installing new insulation can prevent moisture build-up in, on and around the roof which can reduce the chances of plywood damage, mold build-up and even those aforementioned Ice Dams.
3. Visual Inspections: Take some time out to walk around your home. Sip some coffee, breath the crisp winter air and while you're at it, be sure to visually inspect your home.
Check for branches that may need to be trimmed away from the roof. If you can get up on your roof, check for missing shingles, flashing issues and heavy deposits of debris. Fix what you can, and find a quality roofing contractor to do the harder work for you.
Check for branches that may need to be trimmed away from the roof. If you can get up on your roof, check for missing shingles, flashing issues and heavy deposits of debris. Fix what you can, and find a quality roofing contractor to do the harder work for you.
4. Visually Inspections Part 2: Don't just stop at inspecting the exterior portion of your home and roof, remember to give a good visual inspection in your attic.
Giving a good hard look on the INSIDE of your home is an easy way to find hidden issues you may not notice from the OUTSIDE of your home.
5. Game Plan: Once you have taken some time to look everything over, you will need to devise a game plan. Don't just identify potential issues and convince yourself you'll take care of it later.
The faster you react to potential issues, the faster you solve unwanted problems.
Remember that the roof above is the largest structure of the home protecting you and your family—a structure that requires care.
Have a question? Need your roof inspected? Maybe it's time to consider upgrading your old roof?
Let us know in either the comment section or by contacting us directly.
Window Installation And What You May Not Know
by Chuck Miller on 08/20/15
1. Wondering why your monthly heating and cooling bills are so high?
Inefficent windows, skylights, and doors account for more than 25 percent of the average household's energy bills, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. In today's modern age many window, skylight and door products are constructed with some sort of "energy efficent" process to help homeowners clamp down on wasted energy.
Simonton Windows®—for example—offer numerous amenities to energy efficency including:
1. Fusion-Welded frames and sashes which provide rigidity for increased strength and weather resistance.
2.Tempered glass, single and double-strength glass, LowE and Argon construction—for enhanced industry leading counters to winds, debris and extreme changing weather.
3. Patented Lap-Lok meeting rail system which overlaps and interlocks the top and bottom sash for an unbeatable tight and secure seal when you close your windows.
4. Fin-Seal weatherstripping which creates multiple barriers against air infultration.
But this is really just the tip of the iceberg.
As an ENERGY STAR® partner, Simonton Windows® is commited to meeting the strict criteria of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Enviromental Protection Agency to help conserve energy and reduce heating and cooling costs for all our customers.
Still need more? Not enough?
How about a product with exceptional and meticulous attention to detail and product "ingredients" like true " extruded virgin vinyl" which is virtually maintenance free?
Or, a wide gamut of visual choices from Colonial, Diamond-esq, Prairie and flat-tone looks—each one carefully crated to provide our customers with the EXACT product look to help them express their own stunning visual creativity.
And last but not least a high Quality, EXPERIENCED, installer CERTIFIED by the Simonton Window® corporation.
Like A&C Windows and Roofing!
We at A&C are South Jersey's Certified Simonton Installer, and have been for nearly 5 years and running. This ensures YOU, the homeowner, that the window crew that installs your windows are not only Certifed by the very company you're purchasing your windows from, but also, are backed by years and years of training and attention to the old "take pride in your work" way of doing things.
And unlike some other companies, this DOES NOT translate into a higher cost window—it's part and parcel!
Think you're ready to upgrade? Want to learn more about the information in this blog, Simonton Windows® and A&C Windows and Roofing?
Give us a call today at 609-601-2601 for your FREE window evaluation, and FREE estimate! You'll be happy you did!
Welcome to the First A&C Blog!
by Chuck Miller on 08/19/15
Welcome everyone to A&C Windows and Roofing first blog!
We have decided to add this page to our existing website as a way of bringing more information to our patrons, loyal existing customers and of course, you the visitor!
Inside these blogs will be helpful advice, product updates, random specials and much more!
How much more you ask? Stay tuned and check back regularly to find out!