| Paul's
Appliance Repair 22 Park Terrace, Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 525-1211 
Home Service Area Maintenance Contracts |
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| Over 10 Years Experience Service - Installation - Repair Major Household Appliances All Makes and Models |
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| Welcome to the Web site for
Paul's Appliance Repair . For over 10 years we have strived to ensure
the complete satisfaction of our customers. Our customers are confident
that their solutions are only 1 call away. We provide fast quality service. |
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Refrigerators Ranges Dryers/ Vent cleaning Washers Air Conditionin |
Dishwashers Microwaves Disposals Ice Machines Hot Water Heaters |
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ENERGY TIP: When you buy an appliance, you get an instruction booklet that tells you how to operate it. But there's no booklet for choosing the right appliance in the first place. An important consideration is choosing a product that will do the job without costing a fortune to operate. After all, as you've heard many times before, the true cost of any home appliance is not only the purchase price, but also how much it will cost to maintain and repair it and also how much it will cost for the energy to operate it. Take a walk around your home and note how many products you have plugged into electrical outlets. The average homeowner is spending about one-fifth of his monthly power bill on the energy that is being used for home appliances_with the bulk of that amount going toward the major energy-users: refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer. So to make your life easier when you need to purchase one of these big-ticket items, here are tips that will help you pick a product that will not only do its job but will do it efficiently and cost-effectively_and probably even pay for itself in energy savings over its lifetime. _If you're using a major home appliance that is 10 to 15 or more years old, think about replacing it. Just because it still works is no reason to keep it. Product improvements in recent years have made today's appliances enormously more efficient than those of just a decade or more ago, and the costs of operating an older appliance can be substantial. A former neighbor had a 50-year-old freezer in his garage that was still working. He was so proud of this that I couldn't break the news to him that this dinosaur was probably using so much energy that he could easily replace it with a bigger new one that would pay for itself in a short time. Appliances have a lifetime of between 10 and 20 years, but new products can often make a purchase cheaper than keeping the old clunker going. _Read the yellow EnergyGuide labels when shopping for a major appliance. Federal law requires them, and they'll inform you not only of the expected energy use of the product but also how the product compares with the most-efficient and the least-efficient products available. You can get an accurate estimate of what your energy costs will be by plugging in your area's kilowatt hour rate, because the number shown is based on a national average. _Buy Energy Star appliances. This government program allows manufacturers whose appliances exceed federal minimum efficiency standards by 15 percent to 20 percent or a specified consumption level to use the Energy Star designation. These products are not just energy-efficient; they're the most energy-efficient possible. _Don't be so impressed by features of appliances that you buy more than you need. Ever buy a car because it had a fancy radio or you liked the leather steering wheel a lot? The same thing can happen with a home appliance. A refrigerator that is much larger than your household needs will cost more to purchase and more to operate, and it won't be as efficient if it's not kept filled. Do you think you won't use an automatic icemaker and a through-the-door dispenser very much? Then why buy a refrigerator with them when these features can increase energy use by as much as 20 percent? _If your new stove has ceramic, halogen or induction range elements, it will be more efficient than one with the old-style electric coil. It'll be easier to clean, too, and will let you have more control of the cooking temperature. _Consider one of the front-loading horizontal axis clothes washers that uses a third of the water to wash the same amount of clothes as your current one does. They spin faster, too, resulting in reduced drying time and costs. And because 90 percent of the energy used to operate a washing machine is for heating the water, an efficient model can make a huge difference. |
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