Summer Breaks and Humidity Control

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Ventilation System Problems

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Are there any patterns?

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Hagerstown Home Show 2018

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Schools! Prepare your HVAC Systems for Winter

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Duct Sealing

Does your home have hot or cold spots? Excessive dust? High utility bills? Does your building fail specifications for duct tightness? These are signs of an air leak in your HVAC duct work. ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) says that 75% of all ducts in commercial buildings leak 10-25%. That’s 200-700% […]

National Healthy Homes Month

[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text] Celebrate National Healthy Homes Month!   June 2017 is the Second Annual National Healthy Homes Month. Indoor Air Quality has been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as one of the five most urgent environmental risks to public health. HVACR […]

Introducing Jason Young, Indoor Environmentalist

Baxter Group, Inc. welcomes our new Indoor Environmentalist, Jason Young. Baxter Group, Inc. welcomes our new Indoor Environmentalist, Jason Young. With nearly 20 years of experience with indoor environmental quality and air filtration, Jason takes our indoor environmental division to a whole new level. He’s tested emission sources in oil refineries, trash to steam facilities, […]

An IAQ Partnership

Baxter Group, Inc. owner and CEO, Jocelyne Melton, and Building Performance Analyst, Patrick Aaron of Total Comfort, Inc. have begun a partnership to improve the indoor air quality in our community. Clients now receive the added benefit of an expanded knowledge base to help identify problems and create solutions for their indoor environmental needs. The […]