Timothy has written about personal finance, including detailed home renovation and repair cost guides, since 2017. His work covers everything from plumbing and roofing to solar and pest control. Find ...

Many homeowners opt to cover their AC units during the winter to shield them from debris and protect them from ice and snow, but it can be hard to tell whether doing so causes more harm than good.

Although air conditioning units are generally subdivided into a number of categories, including window, split and whole house/building units, they still work the same, with the compressor, condenser ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Cassidy was an updates editor whose main responsibility is to write and edit ...

Every year when I pull my air conditioner out of storage and reinstall it, I'm worried about whether my window unit managed to survive the colder months. This year when I turned it on, I was worried ...

Homeowners insurance only covers damage to an air-conditioning unit as a result of a covered peril (hazard) listed in your policy. Depending on the type of unit, AC is either part of your home's ...

Erin Gobler is a personal finance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. She writes about topics including budgeting, student loans, credit, mortgages, investing and insurance. Her work has been ...

As summer heat cranks up, so will AC usage. If you don't have the luxury of central air conditioning that cools your whole home, a more affordable fallback is a window AC unit that can keep smaller ...

As is the case for many people, my home cannot be retrofitted with central air. My 100-plus-year-old Brooklyn apartment, which features prominently in my seven years of air quality reporting for WIRED ...