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When moving to a new location, you get engrossed in packing up the household stuff, and only realize later, that you have not considered how the car will get to the new location. Taking a car across long distances comes with certain challenges. The car will build up a lot of mileage, thus affecting its resale value. The car will also undergo plenty of wear while on the road. The drive will also be exhausting to you, and you may have to sleep in several hotels before you make it to your destination. Car transport services are the best option when you need to move your car across several states, and they ensure that the car remains in the same condition that it was when you handed it to them at their terminal.

When you consider costs, you will note that using a car transport company to ferry your car, is more economical than driving it yourself. The cost of fuel is shared among the owners of the vehicles being ferried by one truck. The expenses incurred by the driver are much less than the cumulative expenses that would be incurred if each owner drove his or her car. Basically, these companies pass real savings to the owners of the vehicles, including you. Consider quotes from different companies and see which one will give you the best bang-per-buck, for their services.

Because of the competitive nature of the industry, you can be assured of getting quality services from several providers. Whether you are an individual, or a motor dealership, you can expect the same quality of service across the board. Each car is carefully inspected before it is loaded onto the carrier. This report is placed on file, and you can ask for a copy, for your own records. The carrier will give you a tracking number, which you can use to trace the movement of your vehicle while in transit. The company will take details about the date that you will be moving, and they will give you a date, on which to expect your delivery. The customer service departments of these companies are very helpful, and will give you pertinent information whenever you request it. Basically, you can expect top-quality service from a car transport service.

To ensure that you get the best quality from the players in the car transport industry, you should rely on credible information sources to get referrals, reviews and testimonials. Your friends, and family, who have used the services of such companies in the past, will give you valuable feedback. The Better Business Bureau is another great source of credible information that will tell you which the best companies are, considering your budget. It is your responsibility to ensure that you precious car gets to its destination in pristine condition so do your due diligence and research the experience and reliability of the companies available. Once you have done this, take your car to the pickup terminal, and then travel to your destination, and wait for it to be delivered.

On a recent Boise a/c repair I was asked.  What is a heat pump and how does it work?  Is a heat pump right for me?  A heat pump is an air conditioner that will do both heating and cooling from the same unit.  To understand how a heat pump works you have to understand how an air conditioner uses Freon to move heat around from one place to another.  The compressor in the a/c unit takes Freon in a gas state and pumps it through a coil outside that has a fan on it.  The air from the fan changes the hot gas from a gas to a liquid.  That liquid Freon is then pumped toward another coil and thru a small hole called a metering device.  At the metering device the high pressure liquid passes thru and a portion of that liquid picks up heat by boiling back into a gas.  This process cools the remaining liquid which is then passed thru the coil removing heat from your home by boiling off the remaining liquid as it absorbs the heat from the air passing through it.  At this point the (mostly cool gas) heads back to the compressor to start the job over again.  On a typical day where the outside temp is 90 degrees and your home is 75 degrees, the air coming from your cold coil (inside) would be about 55 degrees and the air coming from the hot coil (outside) would be about 120 degrees.  These temperatures will vary as the outside and interior temperatures change.  Freon does not go bad under normal use and never wears out.  Think of it as water boiling to steam as you heat it and then turning back to water as it cools again.

So a heat pump then, has what is called a reversing valve that simply reverses the flow of the Freon so that the outside coil becomes the cold coil and the inside coil becomes the hot coil thus removing heat from outside and returning it to you inside.  So it stands to figure then that the warmer it is outside to more heat a heat pump will return to your home and the more efficient it will work.  On most heat pumps you will also have (back-up) heating elements.  These heaters are electric coils that heat up as electricity passes through them (like a space heater or electric stove element).  These (heat strips) are used in several ways.  When set up correctly they add extra heat to your home when the heat pump cannot do the job alone, they can be used instead of the heat pump when the temperatures outside are too cold for the heat pump to work well, and they provide heat to warm the air during a defrost cycle.

Good question “what is a defrost cycle”?  When the temperatures are very cold outside, that cold coil we spoke of is below 32 degrees and will start to form ice on it from the surrounding humidity in the air.  Too much ice means low heat transfer, so we need a way to remove the ice so we can get back to heating correctly again.  This is called the defrost cycle.  In defrost the reversing valve changes back to cooling mode (causing the outside coil to get hot) it also shuts down the fan motor so the coil gets hot faster to melt the ice in the fastest time possible.  During defrost the unit sends a signal to the heat strips to turn them on so that the air entering the house is not so cold.  A typical defrost will happen about every 30 to 60 min. of running time and last for between 1 and 15 min.  Your unit knows when to go into and out of defrost by using a sensor, most sensors measure the coil temperature and will start  defrost when the coil is below 30 degrees and end it when it reaches 60 degrees.

For this Boise a/c repair a heat pump was the correct choice.  The only other option to her was propane which for our area is very expensive.  Other important factors are how cold does it get where you are?  Heat pumps are better in areas where the temps stay above 25 in the winter such as Las Vegas or Phoenix.  In colder areas such as Boise, often times natural gas heating is a much smarter move.  

Manufacturers turn out an impressive amount of product, junk, paper, and garbage. Recent cultural trends are helping them focus their attention on reducing the amount of waste in their lives.

Landfills are filling up fast with things that could be reused. Production plants may be overproducing things that aren’t needed.

The following are a few ideas to help manufacturers reduce the waste they produce. These are just a few examples though and if you have any ideas, please post them in the comments below.

Go with Packsize for your packaging needs. Packsize is a packaging company dedicated to protecting the environment.

This packaging company has finally built the dream machine for reducing costs and reducing waste. They created a machine that will single-handedly reduce packaging, corrugated costs, product damage, shipping costs and much more.

What is this packaging company doing different? They are putting the power to decide the exact size of your box into your hands.

Packsize machines allow you to input a custom size into the computer. It then cuts out a box to your exact specifications.

Having a custom shaped box will save you costs on air pillows, peanuts, and other packing materials. They also help your product fit more snuggly into a box, reducing chances of product damage.

The smaller sizes weigh less, saving you money in shipping every year. The more compact sizes also allow you to fit more products onto the truck.

Your customers complain less because of the excessive girth of the box. Little storage space is needed to place the machines and supplies.

The best part is that this packaging company is helping manufactures reduce their waste. The smaller boxes they produce, the less corrugated waste that goes in the landfills.

When companies produce or ship on a massive scale—like Staples, Amazon, or Dell—they reduce their addition to the landfills by significant amounts every year. How can you say no to those benefits?

Companies like Staples have jumped on board with this idea. More and more manufacturing plants are converting to this packaging company and its ideals every day.

Packagingisn’tthe only problem though. Large companies pound out tens of thousands of paper products every year.

Companies should turn to email marketing as often as possible. How often do people actually look at paper ads and how much more personal is an email?

How many paper ads do they receive in their mail from day-to-day? Although there is a conversion statistic for how much conversion a company receives from these ads, how much does that rate decrease the more and more people use it?

Clutter never helped anyone sell anything; you have to stand out in a different way. Get into email marketing to get the same conversion rate as your paper mail marketing and save a few bucks on the materials.

Reducing your packaging and papering will help you save money, space, and the environment. Become a better steward of the world around you and your financial situation by taking advantage of your technological opportunities.