Cosmo here! Today The Boss was telling someone about indoor air quality. He said plants can improve indoor air quality. Who would have guessed?? (more…)

Hey everybody, Cosmo again! Here we are in the dog days of summer, when it’s almost impossible to enjoy day-to-day comfort if you don’t have an AC system you can rely on. One issue you definitely want to avoid is an overheating AC system. If your cooling system is overheating, then before long, you’ll feel like you’re overheating too!  (more…)

Cosmo here! Today The Boss gave me a history lesson. History has never been my best subject (I’m much better at math), but I enjoyed this history lesson because it had a very interesting topic: air conditioning! To give you an overview, we’ll start with four precursors to air conditioning dating back to ancient times, when the first ideas of comfort control took root: (more…)

Cosmo here! Today I saw The Boss watching this video about “room temperature.”     It got me wondering: What is the ideal room temperature? The Boss is always cold, even when everyone else is comfortable, so is his ideal room temperature different from mine and everyone else’s? What’s going on here?? (more…)

  Cosmo here! As you may have heard, we dogs have an incredibly sensitive sense of smell. That’s a good thing when we smell a tasty treat being cooked up, but not so great when we smell something bad – like strange, foul odors from a furnace, heat pump, or water heater! Here are some unusual, bad smells you might notice coming from your home’s HVAC system and what might be causing them. (more…)