Hard Water Deposits Impact Everyone – Some More Than Others

Monday, July 26th, 2010 | HVAC Deferred Maintenance | No Comments

We’ve all heard the term “hard water”, but what does it actually mean?  How is hard water described and categorized?  What section of the country has the hardest water?

First, let’s describe “hard water” in more detail.  Hard water is water that contains large amounts of dissolved minerals, especially calcium and magnesium.   As our high-school chemistry teachers taught us, l0, those many years ago, water is an excellent solvent – some even call it the universal solvent.    As water passes through rocks and the ground on its journey from rain to our sinks, it picks up small amounts of minerals and keeps them in solution. › Continue reading

Written by: Goodway Blogging Team

Tags: coil cleaning, heat exchangers, HVAC equipment, HVAC Maintenance

Coil Cleaning and Other Fundamentals of Solid HVAC Maintenance

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | HVAC Maintenance and Efficiency | No Comments

If we could, we’d develop a catchy slogan that would lodge in the mind of every person, young and old, and underscore the importance of our industry.  We thought of “HVAC Maintenance: It’s What’s for Dinner!” but it didn’t quite seem to work.  So, short of a slogan, we’ll keep doing the next best thing: pointing you to wonderful reports and articles about HVAC maintenance whenever and wherever we can find them. Fortunately, there are some excellent resources on the Web about this very subject, and one of the most reliable, Buildings.com — the Website of Buildings Magazine and a source we’ve quoted from repeatedly — recently published a dozy of an article on our favorite subject. › Continue reading

Written by: Goodway Blogging Team

Tags: coil cleaning, condenser coils, evaporator coils, heat exchangers, hvac, HVAC associations, HVAC Maintenance, HVAC Maintenance and Efficiency, HVAC systems, iaq, indoor air quality

Top Tips from Goodway for Cleaning and Maintaining Chillers and Other Commercial HVAC Components

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | HVAC Maintenance and Efficiency | No Comments

In our focus on providing you with valuable information, advice, and links to help you take better care of your commercial HVAC system, we shouldn’t neglect to point out that we offer a number of useful informational articles right at our main Website (the site for Goodway Technologies, that is, us).

Case in point: “Cleaning Tubes in Boilers, Chillers, & Heat Exchangers,” an info-rich article penned by our very own Customer Service & Technical Manager, Steve Spielmann. In it, Steve dishes out a mountain of highly educational and extremely practical stuff, all of it very well organized into clear sections as follows:

• Cleaning boiler tubes: types of boilers (firetube and watertube), how they work, how and why to clean them
• How deposits on boiler tubes affect heat transfer
• Cleaning chiller tubes: advances in cleaning methods over time, best practices using today’s technology
• Cleaning heat exchangers: advances in cleaning methods over time, comparison of effective methods used today › Continue reading

Written by: Goodway Blogging Team

Tags: boiler tubes, chiller tubes, commercial HVAC system, heat exchangers, HVAC cleaning equipment, HVAC cleaning techniques, HVAC system