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10 Ways to Make Your Home Energy Efficient

Keep Your Home Comfortable and Costs Down If you have been mulling over your energy bills lately and are looking for ways to keep your home more energy efficient, these 10 tips can help! Black it Out – Blackout or heavy curtains can not only keep the hot sun out in the summer months but […]

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What Is a Forced Air Heating System?

Providing Forced Air Heating for Illinois Homes Near Edwardsville & Hamel A forced air heating system uses air to distribute heat throughout your home. In this type of system, heated air travels through your ductwork and is released through vents into the different rooms of your home. When you set your thermostat to the temperature

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What Does a Boiler Do?

Learn How a Boiler Could Benefit Your Madison County Home Let’s start off by going over the purpose boilers serve. Simply put, boilers create steam for your home, which can be used in a variety of ways. Boilers are capable of heating the air in your home, keeping a hot tub or pool warm, steam

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Is it Important to Schedule Furnace Maintenance?

Learn About the Benefits of Furnace Maintenance for Your Home or Business Your furnace is an expensive and important part of your HVAC system. To obtain optimal home comfort, it’s important to service your furnace annually to be sure it’s ready to perform at maximum capacity when you need it most. To get the most

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Should I Repair or Replace My Furnace?

Learn Whether it’s Time to Repair or Replace Your Heating System When your furnace gives out in the middle of a frigid winter, your entire home comfort is thrown off. How are you supposed to go about your daily activities when you aren’t even comfortable in your own home? So how do you know whether

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Is a Programmable Thermostat Right For Your Home?

Providing Temperature Control in Hamel, Edwardsville, Glen Carbon, & Highland, Illinois Would you like optimal climate control for your Madison County home? With a programmable thermostat, you can preset the temperature in your home to your liking, while saving energy. With this innovative piece of technology, you can program the temperature of your home, to cut

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HVAC Fall Maintenance Tips

Service Your Furnace, Heat Pump, or Boiler This Fall Is your home’s heating system ready for the upcoming fall and winter season? To be sure that your air conditioner is properly shut down and your heat is ready to kick in, you will want to go through our list of HVAC fall maintenance tips. Hiring

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What Is Refrigerant & How Does It Help Your AC Unit?

Your cooling system in Madison County relies on quite a few parts and pieces to provide the cool comfort you’ve come to depend on. From the blower motor to your evaporator coil, everything in your system works in tandem to fight off our summer heat. But of all the components of your system, there is one

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AC Smells That Indicate a Problem

As the proud owner of a cooling system, you’re probably pretty familiar with at least a few common problems that plague us here in Hamel. Maybe your system has experienced poor air flow or made some funny noises. But have you ever suspected that your system might be smelling odd? At Ernst Heating & Cooling,

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What Should I Do If My Ductless Mini-Split Won’t Turn On?

An Illinois summer is nothing to take lightly. We might not have the scorching temperatures of other areas of the U.S., but there’s still plenty of heat to go around—and humidity to boot! Luckily, we have our excellent cooling systems to provide the relief we so desperately need. But what if the ductless system you

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