Air Conditioning News for 08/07/2007



Commission Gives Out Air Conditioners To Needy - NewsChannel5.com

Commission Gives Out Air Conditioners To Needy
NewsChannel5.com, TN - 8 hours ago
Even though some seem to ignore the steamy temperatures, it can be unbearable for many without any air conditioning. The Metro Action Commission has given .
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Watsco enters into $300M credit facility
Boston Globe - COCONUT GROVE, Fla. -- Watsco Inc. , a distributor of air conditioning and heating equipment, said Monday it completed a five-year, $300 million revolving credit facility to help pay for its buyout of ACR Group Inc. The company said the latest ...

Assistant Secretary for Manufacturing and Services
Congratulations to William G. "Woody" Sutton, who was confirmed unanimously Friday to be the new Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services...

A Chilling Story of Waste: Air Conditioning and Open Doors
It baffles me, in this day and age, that certain commercial outlets choose to blatantly waste power right in the face of consumers. Having an open door with an air conditioner running is a complete waste of energy, and it also places ...

A Chilling Story of Waste: Air Conditioning and Open Doors
It baffles me, in this day and age, that certain commercial outlets choose to blatantly waste power right in the face of consumers...

Watsco buys ACR Group - Bizjournals.com

Watsco buys ACR Group
Bizjournals.com, NC - 16 hours ago
A local air conditioning and heating equipment distributor has bought ACR Group for about $74.2 million. Coconut Grove-based Watsco (NYSE: WSO) said it .
ACR Group to keep name following acquisition Bizjournals.com
Watsco Enters Into $300M Credit Facility Forbes
Watsco Completes Tender Offer for ACR Forbes
Business Wire (press release)
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Jeep Cherokee Recall - Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Motor
Jeep Cherokee Recall - Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Motor. Chrysler Jeep Cherokee Recall. Make & Model: Jeep Cherokee (KJ). Number of vehicles affected: 1632. Model Years From: 2006-2007 ...

Aug. 7, 2007: Intertek Unveils New 20-ton HVACR Test Facility
Intertek, a leader in product testing, inspection, and certification, has unveiled a new 1,000-square-foot psychrometric test facility at its 240,000-square-foot HVACR Center of Excellence testing center...

Air Conditioning Maintenance Tips
Have air conditioning unit serviced twice a year, whicb is very important in humid climates such as Middle Tennessee...

New Lennox Air Conditioning unit
Our A/C just started freezing up. The main coil started freezing at the condensor and then froze all the way up to our furnace. Our techinician said we were leaking oil into teh condensor and that we also had a leak somewhere but he ...

APC's Neil Rasmussen: man in a hurry
Neil Rasmussen founded American Power Conversion in 1981, after earning a master's degree in electrical engineering from MIT...

Education Briefs
ZANESVILLE -Examinations represent one of the most common forms of performance evaluation for college students and a major source of anxiety for many...

Feline wins over former cat-hater
Tracy Carviou plays with her cat, Pooper, in her Francis Creek home. Carviou, who learned she was allergic to cats, received allergy treatments to allow Pooper to live with her without suffering from sinus ...

Hot Jobs - Week of August 6
JOB TITLE: Construction Engineer SALARY: $80,000 - $90,000 per year, depending on experience EXPERIENCE: Must have bachelor's degree with a minimum of five years construction engineering/contract administration ...

[200] [1985] Air Conditioning Compressor runs full time -posted by .
So bet your PO had a bad insulation on the wires from the compressor to the low pressure switch. The Brown wire of the compressor should go to one side of the switch and the other side of the switch should connect to the green wire. ...

Heat Emergency Prompts Calls For People To Double-Check On One Another
Temperatures were well into the 90's on Monday and could top the 100 degree mark later in the week - " that combined with the humidity could produce a heat index of between 100 to 110 degrees-Farenheit. ...

Sizzling sun saps Triangle
Raleigh News & Observer - It sucks up precious water. When the temperature hits 85, take hourly breaks in the shade or air conditioning. Drink plenty of water and watch for the usual heat illness symptoms: cramping, rapid pulse, hot red skin, dizziness, confusion, nausea and ...

Lochinvar Awards
Release date: July 10, 2007 Lochinvar Awards Top Sellers of KNIGHT Heating Boiler Enjoy Three Days of VIP Treatment LEBANON, TN - July 10, 2007 - Lochinvar Corp., a leading manufacturer of high-efficiency water ...

Tips to beating the heat - Southeast Missourian

Tips to beating the heat
Southeast Missourian, MO - 7 hours ago
Stay inside in air conditioning as much as possible. Even a few hours in air conditioning will allow your body to cool. * If you have no air-conditioning, .
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South Florida weather forecast? Still sizzling
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - Drink lots of water, wear light clothing, avoid going outside in the middle of the day EUR 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. EUR and seek air conditioning, said Mike Jachles, spokesman for Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue. "If you don't have air conditioning, go someplace ...

The Weather Report
Guardian Unlimited - Kingfisher's B&Q chain suffered , as sales of garden furniture, barbecues and air conditioning plummeted, even though sales of Wellington boots soared. Sales at Halfords slowed as bike and tent purchases took a hit, though demand for car parts helped ...

Green Air Conditioning
Air conditioning, in most areas is not a necessity; however, I live in a valley of the Los Angeles suburban sprawl that tends to trap heat. There are ways to reduce the amount of air conditioning you use, though, like closing your ...

Which do you prefer, being cool or saving? (Asbury Park Press)
Do you like to slam the windows shut and keep the air conditioning running all summer, or do you prefer to run the air conditioner as little as possible and save money?..

Stifling heat causes sales to sizzle, wilt
Jeremy Stromatt looked like he could be climbing out of a swimming pool rather than a pit at a construction site...

AmerenUE Offers Tips for Keeping Cool in Major Heat Wave
MSN MoneyCentral - If you have central air conditioning, cool only the rooms you use. But don't close all your vents. Closing too many vents actually reduces operating efficiency. -- Turn the air conditioner thermostat up when you leave the house for ...

COOL DEAL: York gets AC contract (York Daily Record)
The Naval Surface Warfare Center in Philadelphia has awarded a $48 million contract to York, a Johnson Controls company, for various air conditioning equipment and kits...

ASHRAE, DOE Partner to Promote Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers have formed an agreement to increase building energy efficiency standards by 30% over 2004 ...

Coolin' the Gang
Slate - When I moved into my new apartment in May, I prayed the air conditioning would work. Anything would be a step up from the AC in my old studio, which blew stale wind and bad cooking smells from other units into mineEURand its vents looked like they ...

Air Conditioning Maintenance Tips - NewsChannel5.com

Air Conditioning Maintenance Tips
NewsChannel5.com, TN - 12 hours ago
--Have air conditioning unit serviced twice a year, whicb is very important in humid climates such as Middle Tennessee. Professional technicians can .
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Clearing the air catches on
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Lighting accounts for 34 percent of Wegmans' overall energy bill, while heating, ventilation and air conditioning take up 29 percent and refrigeration 25 percent, Wadsworth said. Lighting is one of the things Wegmans tackled first, he said, with all ...

Demand For Air Conditioning Service Is High (News Channel 5 Nashville)
The hot weather can be dangerous for people who are inside without any air conditioning. Service companies are working overtime to keep up with the demand to repair air conditioners...

ASHRAE Plans to Improve Energy Savings by 2010, Strengthen 90.1
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers has announced plans to improve energy efficiency in new buildings by tightening standard 90.1. ASHRAE is looking to achieve 30 ...

Staunton Building Permits - Staunton News Leader

Staunton Building Permits
Staunton News Leader, VA - 3 hours ago
. K and K Heating and Air Conditioning, Plumbing, Lambert Plumbing and Heating, Owner, Oaktree Builders Inc. 908 Ritchie Boulevard, Residential M New, .
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Standard Motor Q2 earnings trail Wall Street
Reuters - (Reuters) - Standard Motor Products Inc. (SMP.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) posted weak quarterly earnings, which fell short of market forecasts, as unusually cold and damp weather hurt sales in its largest air-conditioning market, knocking shares ...

Tips On Keeping Air Conditioners Running (WBNS-10TV Columbus)
Consumer 10 shows you how to get the most out of your air conditioning without breaking the bank...

Artesian Air Conditioning
HOT! It is hot here with temps hovering around 100 degrees F. and heat indexes in the 110- degree range. Our air conditioner is running nonstop, still unable to keep up with the heat and humidity by mid-afternoon. ...

Tips to beating the heat (Southeast Missourian)
Staying cool n Stay inside in air conditioning as much as possible. Even a few hours in air conditioning will allow your body to cool. n If you have no air-conditioning, keep windows open to allow...

July ends fifth wettest on record
A record wet July that brought some flooding forced some schedule finagling for lawn care service companies, but few are complaining...

Students protest BP's lake pollution (The Naperville Sun)
Adam O'Bryan and his friends could have spent Monday sitting in air conditioning or doing pretty much anything to beat the heat. Instead they relished it, standing proudly on the corner of 75th Street and Plainfield-Naperville Road with homemade signs asking motorists to boycott the BP gas station behind them...

Muggy can be draining for ComEd, too
Walk down any street and you'll hear the buzzing of air conditioners, day and night, in these dog days of summer...

JBL Professional Control 300 Series Large-Format Ceiling Loudspeakers Receive UL Listing
The JBL Professional Control 300 large-format ceiling loudspeakers are now UL listed under UL1480 and UL2043...

Raise the (Green) Roof
During the warmer summer months cities (San Franciscans just ignore this) can be up to 7 degrees hotter and more humid than their surrounding areas resulting in increased air conditioning usage. The extremely high temperatures created ...

Smart ForTwo road show visits LI
Newsday - The cheapest U.S. model is expected to be priced at about $12,000 and will include an automatic transmission but no air-conditioning, for which an upgrade is required to a more expensive model. A convertible also will be offered, for about $17,000. ...

Heat, humidity prompt concerns in Missouri (USA Today)
As sweltering heat and humidity remained settled over Missouri with no relief in sight, health experts and forecasters on Monday urged residents to stay in the air conditioning and take it easy...

Heat wave
This week may go down as warmest of year By Johnny Jackson jjackson@henryherald.com Business is heating up for air conditioning repair specialists in metro Atlanta...

Highs to Approach 100 for 2 Steamy Days
Washington Post - Counties and cities across the region will be operating daytime cooling centers to provide refuge for those without air conditioning. "We're concerned about the children and the elderly because they're usually the first to suffer from heat exhaustion ...

Renters Say Air Conditioning Is the One Amenity They Can Not Live Without (NBC26 Green Bay)
CHICAGO -- As the summer heats up, a recent Apartments.com survey to current renters supports the importance of staying cool as more than 36 percent of respondents indicate that air conditioning is the one amenity they can not live without...

Demand For Air Conditioning Service Is High
The hot weather can be dangerous for people who are inside without any air conditioning...

This week may go down as warmest of year - News-Daily.com

This week may go down as warmest of year
News-Daily.com, GA - 9 hours ago
By Johnny Jackson EURIts hot,EUR said Mike Vining, the owner of a Stockbridge-based air conditioning repair company. As drought conditions persist, .
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Perpetual Motion
Bowden McElroy would have to fill me in on that, but I really think it has more to do with trying to live in Texas without air conditioning than any repressed issue yet to be dealt with. After all, its not like Ben has died, ...

Consensus Agreement Reached on Walk-in Coolers, Freezers Efficiency Standards
This agreement, which was negotiated over the last several months by the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute , Arlington, Va., and the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy , Washington, ...

Schools will have new AC units by Oct. 1st - Pacific Daily News

Schools will have new AC units by Oct. 1st
Pacific Daily News, GU - 19 hours ago
By Carlos B. Pangelinan Parents and students can expect to see several schools sporting brand new split air-conditioning units and cooler classrooms. .
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Air conditioning companies uses Henrobs self pierce riveting systems - Ferret

Air conditioning companies uses Henrobs self pierce riveting systems
Ferret, Australia - Aug 5, 2007
The air conditioning ducting market is split between two technologies to hold the sections together. The high volume, high strength ducting applications .
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Watsco Enters Into $300M Credit Facility (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Watsco Inc., a distributor of air conditioning and heating equipment, said Monday it completed a five-year, $300 million revolving credit facility to help pay for its buyout of ACR Group Inc...

Air Conditioning Maintenance Tips (News Channel 5 Nashville)
Servicing air conditioning unit, replacing outdoor cartridge fuses every two years and keeping shrubs and plants away from outside air conditioning units are some tips experts offer to maintain the units...

[200] [1985] Air Conditioning Compressor runs full time -posted by .
Where would I find this bulb in the system, and do you know how difficult it is to replace? Thanks, Bill...

A Chilling Story of Waste: Air Conditioning and Open Doors - blogTO


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A Chilling Story of Waste: Air Conditioning and Open Doors
blogTO, Canada - 15 hours ago
Between Bathurst and Brunswick on either side of Bloor, we found just one business with air conditioning and open doors. For the follow-up, I visited the .
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Fired West Palm Beach man charged in home break-in
Hobe Sound She awoke to the sound of a strange voice in her house. The man was in the same bedroom, talking about her...

Air conditioning could soon cost a lot more for Euro drivers
Air conditioning was once considered a luxury option but in the past decade it has become almost universally standard equipment. New European Union rules could put a stop to that for drivers over there. ...

Protect yourself and others during heat wave - Suffolk News-Herald

Protect yourself and others during heat wave
Suffolk News-Herald, VA - 5 hours ago
If the home does not have air conditioning, fans are essential for cooling. In homes with air conditioning, fans enable residents to raise the thermostat .
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