Water Heater Warning Signs

Water Heater Warning Signs

Imagine friends coming over for a visit and, out of nowhere, one of them asks: “So, how’s your water heater?” Here’s how you WOULDN’T reply: “I thought you’d never ask!”  Then again, your friend wouldn’t ask that question in the first place – it’s the kind of thing people discuss only when there’s a problem.… Continue reading Water Heater Warning Signs

How to Select a Heating Company

How to Select a Heating Company

Selecting a home heating company when you suddenly lose heat is easy…you look for someone who can come out right away and accepts your chosen credit card. Later, you hold your breath and hope you made the right decision. But let’s say you’re a planner.  Someone who recently moved into your home and you want… Continue reading How to Select a Heating Company

Things to Clean and Heating After Being Sick

Things to Clean and Heating After Being Sick

Cold and flu season can seem to drag on for months on end.  No escape,  heating cooling no respite. That’s not quite the reality, of course, but you know what they say about perception. How about your family?  Are you caught in a vicious cycle, sort of like a relay race, where one member hands… Continue reading Things to Clean and Heating After Being Sick

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, filled with sparkling lights,  Christmas tree family gatherings, and excited children with their eyes all aglow. But before you know it, the holiday season will be over and all you’ll have left to show for it are paper cuts from wrapping dozens of presents, a maxed-out credit… Continue reading How to Recycle Your Christmas Tree

How to Clean Your Showerhead

How to Clean Your Showerhead

Leave it alone long enough, and your showerhead can clog up from  Showerhead Cleaning excess amount of lime, manganese, calcium, and other mineral deposits. The great the blockage, the more you’ll notice a reduction in water pressure, one you’re likely to assume exists throughout your house. Chances are, the problem is isolated to the showerhead.… Continue reading How to Clean Your Showerhead

How to Cut Home Heating Costs

How to Cut Home Heating Costs

Summer turning to winter in New Jersey is a mixed blessing, utility cost wise. While you’re thrilled to see your electricity go down once you no longer need your central air system, it’s just a matter of time before your heating costs make up the difference and maybe even surpass it. Tell you what…let’s deal… Continue reading How to Cut Home Heating Costs

Thanksgiving Drain Cleaning Tips

Thanksgiving Drain Cleaning Tips

  All set for Thanksgiving? Here at Anthony’s Plumbing, Heating & Air, we hope it’s your best ever. As you know, the day after Thanksgiving is now called Black Friday for all the early holiday season bargains just waiting to be had. But way before Black Friday became a national sales event, plumbing professionals across… Continue reading Thanksgiving Drain Cleaning Tips

Healthy Winter Habits

Nutritious snacks for a healthy winter

Spending more time indoors during the winter is a recipe for inertia. And inertia, in itself a bad habit, leads to even more bad habits. Not that reading, knitting, playing board games and other such activities are bad things.  In fact, they all help stimulate the brain. But what about your confined body? It needs… Continue reading Healthy Winter Habits

Halloween Trivia & Fun Facts

Before you know it, little ghosts and goblins will be knocking on your door, bags in hand, arms stretched out, chanting those three famous words: “Trick or treat!” But do you know why kids all around the country dress up in their favorite costumes in search of candy and other Halloween treats? Or how the… Continue reading Halloween Trivia & Fun Facts

Do I Need a Water Filter?

Girl enjoying clean water from a glass

Every time you pour a glass of water, boil a pound of pasta, or wash your kid in the tub, you want to BELIEVE you have high quality water.  Either that, or you’re so confident that you do, it doesn’t even cross your mind. While about 95% of all household water contains some degree of… Continue reading Do I Need a Water Filter?