Category: Air Conditioning

Big news! MightyServ has once again secured the title of Readers’ Choice Award from local news provider, The Daily News. Eight Years in a Row for MightyServ The Readers’ Choice Award annually recognizes the very best businesses in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. For the last two decades, The Daily News has scoured the LA area for the best business in multiple different categories. They ask readers to nominate their favorite business, and editors narrow the nominations to five finalists in each category. Then, the finalists go head-to-head in an online vote.  Since 2012, MightyServ has taken the title as the best air conditioning & heating company. We are proud to have clinched the title once again in 2019 – that makes it eight years straight!  The MightyServ Difference Since 1963, we have been providing dependable HVAC services to families across the San Fernando valley. As a family-owned company, we know the importance of personal touch. So we treat all our customers like family. with friendly technicians and on-time service. Many of our customers have trusted us with their heating and air conditioning for more than twenty years!  At MightyServ, formally MightyServ, our goal is to deliver top-of-the-line customer

Are you suffering from headaches, congestion or fatigue? These symptoms could be caused by poor indoor air quality. Start monitoring your IAQ today. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American spends 93% of their time indoors. If you fall into this category, you are breathing indoor air for nearly every minute of your life, which means that the quality of that air is extremely important to your health. If you’ve been experiencing nagging health symptoms, such as persistent headaches or congestion, indoor air quality (IAQ) could very well be the culprit. Health Effects of Poor IAQ Breathing in an environment with poor IAQ can have numerous short-term and long-term effects on your health, including: Exposure to certain pollutants can also cause long-term health effects, including respiratory disease, cancer and heart complications. The importance of monitoring IAQ, both in the home and in the workplace, cannot be emphasized enough. What Controls IAQ? The IAQ in your home or office is largely controlled by the performance of your HVAC system. There are many conditions that can negatively affect your system’s performance, such as microbial growth and moisture. Microbial growth can be increased by the presence of heat and humidity, which can cause

Air conditioning systems are very expensive to replace, and it’s tempting to try to save costs wherever possible. When one unit of your air conditioning system fails, replacing one unit while keeping the older, still-functioning unit sounds like a practical cost-saving measure. However, mismatched air conditioning components can have a negative effect on the efficiency, reliability and life-span of your system. The indoor and outdoor units of a residential air conditioning system function together despite the fact that they are split into two units. As a result, the system suffers stress when the two units have dissimilar components that were designed to work at different levels of efficiency. You Can’t Teach Old Coils New Tricks When mismatched air conditioning components are forced to work together, it can put stress on the older unit and seriously compromise the function of the new unit. Newer condenser coils are more efficient, have a larger, grooved surface area, and employ other enhanced features that improve their performance. Older coils do not have these features, and are often incompatible with new condenser coils. New air conditioning units use thermal expansion valves with a hard shut-off to control their use of refrigerant. However, older units were not