Did you know that the quality of the air you breathe indoors can be 100 times worse than the quality of the outside air? Since people typically spend 60-90% of their lives indoors, this situation poses many problems. Many allergens, pollutants and micro-organisms thrive in indoor air. You can relieve these indoor problems with proper air […]
Is It Time to Convert to Natural Gas?
In recent years the exploration and development of natural gas from shale has led to extremely low prices, especially when compared to heating oil costs. So changing your heating system from heating oil to natural gas could be a no-brainer depending on your present system and availability of gas in your area. The difference is […]
A Quick Look at the Federal Tax Credits for 2012-13
The renewed “25C” tax credit for 2013 allows homeowners to get up to $500 in federal tax credits when installing qualified home improvements. Because the credits were made retroactive to January 1, 2012, they can be used for qualified heating, cooling or water heating systems that were installed anytime after December 31, 2011. Qualified equipment […]
A recap of our community outreach efforts of 2012
Our ServiceMark Community Support Team had quite a busy past year with the many community events we attended, helped to organize and/or funded. We were seen in Eastern Pennsylvania, Northern Delaware and Eastern Maryland in support of local charities or organizations offering a helping hand to the families in our communities. We were involved with everything from raising donations for […]
Welcome Energy Savers
We wish to extend a warm welcome to all of our new visitors exploring the new ServiceMark Blog site. We’re committed to offering you up-to-date information on the many ways to reduce energy use in your home. We plan to provide advice on practical smaller do-it-yourself projects and review the larger projects that we, at ServiceMark, […]