AC Float Switch: The $30 Part That Keeps Your Ceiling Dry
Most homeowners have never heard of a float switch until the day their air conditioner shuts off on its own. Then it becomes the most important part in the house. Here’s what it is, why it matters more in a coastal climate than almost anywhere else, and what to do when yours trips. What a […]
Why Your Heat Pump Isn’t Heating: A Myrtle Beach Homeowner’s Guide
The first genuinely cold night of the year is when most Grand Strand homeowners find out something is wrong with their heat pump. The system ran fine all summer, nobody touched it since, and then the temperature drops into the forties and the house won’t get comfortable. Sometimes that’s a real failure. Often it’s a […]
What Georgetown Homeowners Should Know About Plumbing in an Older House
Georgetown is the third-oldest city in South Carolina, and it looks the part. The Historic District holds one of the finest collections of 18th and 19th-century architecture in the state, and the neighborhoods around it hold something almost as distinctive: housing stock that has been added to, patched, and re-plumbed by five or six generations […]