December 8, 2025 • 21 mins
Saving money this winter and dispelling wives tales with Fast Response Heating and Cooling!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Okay on ABC six First Warning Weather. That's the weather.
We don't do the weather. Whoever's back at the mother station.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
There's a whole lot of melting going on.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I know that I could tell you a little bit
about the weather. Yes today brought to you by the
Basement Doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hold on a second.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
There's just a lot of melting.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Six First Warning Weather today. It's gonna be cloudy, high
thirty nine weather powered by the Basement Doctor. It's currently
thirty five degrees of your severe weather.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Boots. You would have loved that job because you can
get paid to be wrong. Okay, are we on the
air now, all right? Just trying to give the forecast
the weather. You did a good job.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
What is it outside right now? It's probably close to forty.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's one of the easiest jobs you can think of
because you can be wrong, turn and still get paid.
I'm just kidding. Those meteorologists are so smart, they're so
mathematically inclined and scientifically inclined. But we're helping you today
because it's that time of the year that we crank
up the heat, oh did I? And we crank out
cash because we have to pay such higher utility bills.
(01:03):
So who's our gas boots?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
This is Austin. He's one of the fine leaders. A
fast response. His dad started a company. How many years, Austin,
way way back.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't even know if I can image before you
were born. Oh I was born about that?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, And you've been out to my house to fix
my stuff, haven't you get Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, And I know Joshua's too, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Fast boy.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
They're good at it, you know what, Austin. That's what's
so important people because when their furnace breaks down, they
want it fixed yesterday. And when they are told, well,
you're on a waiting list, we have so many people
to get to. It may be a few days, maybe
by the end of the week. You can't go without
heat for that long, right, Why is being there fast
(01:45):
for people so important to your company?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
For the most part, other than honestly, just being without
heat is horrible.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You have the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Issue of freezing pipes right oh yeah, And even when
you're not thinking about it, you have the issue of
what was that one thing, Camember.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Carbon monoxide monoxide?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, your minding of it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That's a big thing.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There's a couple of really big things that you don't
think about you can't be without heat with four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Week would you say I do it yourself or shouldn't
do his? Hear her furnace? That could be scary, Yeah, Carl,
monoxide pops in my head. Was lost.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's odorless, it's it's tasteless. You don't know what's there. Yeah, right,
that's the worst part about it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And it gets you in your sleep, gets you in
your sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's things you just don't wake up. You just don't
realize it a lot of times, and for most people, right,
it's not as much. It's like a little crack. So
you'll have really bad headaches, right, you'll be nauseous, You'll
be throwing up all over the place. You don't even
know why. Okay, oh it's just one a time. I'm
getting sick.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know, are more prevalent in the winter.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh well, it's only in the window because we don't
use the heat in summer. We're using natural gas, right,
and so I buy product of that bunning is the
carbon monoxide. So in the summer time it's a little
bit different. You have issues like free on leaks, which
can definitely make you sick, right, But in the winter
time it goes from being sick to being dead. Right,
it's huge because carbon noxie will kill you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, there are carbon monoxide detectors out there.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Do they work?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They do?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
How do they work? Really? How do they detect it?
If it's colorless, odorless? I mean, how do they work?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They're weird? What they do?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They're weird.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's a very strange thing. It's kind of like just
with your smoke a lumps. It goes to a chemical
process and that's how it finds it out. But most
importantly with them is they're pretty high. Right, A lot
of people won't know till they're dead. You can have
a carbon monoxide detector on the tailpipe of your ruck,
right and it'll take up with the thirty minutes for
it to go off.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh and that's.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Sitting directly on the exhaustia truck, right, So how much
has to get in your house before it gets it?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
They have ultra low ones, right, which is pretty much
the only ones you should get. But like the one
you just pick up at Low's because it was there
and it was cheap and it was on clearance. Yeah,
it's so ultra low detection pretty much. So if you
look at them, there's lots of there's ones that have
screens they'll detect very low levels like ten parts per million, right,
(04:27):
And then you have the majority of them, right, which
is just a basic one. Ran an Amazon Basics one
that won't go to almost one hundred. Right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So you say you put them over exhaust pipes of
vehicles and it takes up to thirty minutes for it
to go off. Yeah, ouch, which is every Okay, there's
a show today. I learned me something new today I had.
I've never ever heard that, I thought, honestly, is yeah,
she works. She looks for deals. I looked for just
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finding the stupid thing and sticking it up and convenience.
It's right, I don't really price them. I look at
I get the most expensive carbon monoxide because of my mind,
A better carburetor makes the car run better, so I
think a better carbon monoxide would make the carbon monoxide
sniff better. But man, you taught us.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Something, Austin. Are there things people can do to lower
their electric bills? Are there things they can do around
the house cost saving things that can help.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Not easily? Right, There's things like air balancing, right, but
that's not really like I do it yourself. Thing. And
then the thing is you just you can't really balance
the air through the vents. If you imagine it like
a garden hose. A lot of people say, I just
close off the vents in the rooms I don't use. Okay,
what happens when you put your thumb over a garden hose,
you build that extra pressure, right, you just move into
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somewhere else, right, It doesn't help. It puts more pressure
on the system. I actually increase your bills. It's still
trying to warm the whole house, isn't it. Okay, now
it's just having a more difficult time.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We need to go to break But we're going to
break down the barrier because I've heard of some wives
tales that can really help around the house to lower
those costs. We're going to put you on the spot
to see if those are just wives tales or if
they really work, things like opening your blinds to let
you know natural sunlight and things like that. We're gonna
break it down because we want people to try to
save money.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right absolutely, All right, Austin, We'll be back with more
with a fast response. This is raw with many of boothslents.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
How much money do you spend each winter on those
electric bills. I can't stand this time of the year.
They crank up those bills same in the dead of
the heat of the summer too. We pay so much
when it comes to the AC. But we are dispelling
some wives tales or going to get to the truth
about it because Austin with fast response cooling and heating
is in here. Austin, you ready for these just about right?
(06:43):
So we asked you about opening the blinds letting sunlight
in to help natural light kind of warm your kitchen,
you're setting your dining room. Whatever is that true? Can
that make a difference?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It definitely can right that actual the sugn itself is
going to help, right, at least it's gonna warm that
area a little bit more right when the sun's out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Right, See that's true. And you don't see the sunshine
too much here in Columbius.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Five degrees out and you open the blind just could
see the sun. But the sun's not doing its job.
He's on break right then, it really doesn't do much.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Right, It's gotta be a sunny day for that to happen.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Right. Usually if you have a nice sign out, it
can definitely help. Right. It's not gonna be like a
huge difference, but it can definitely help.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay, I got a whole list here. What about adjusting
your thermostat what should we keep it at instead of
moving it back and question?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So there's a couple of things on that, right. Average
is about seventy one to seventy two.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
None of my sister's house, she keeps hers at like
sixty not anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's not bad, right, I'm at seventy one. That's right,
keep it out. I'll break the name rules.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
The biggest thing you can do right to build lower
that temperature while still being comfortable is to actually get
a humidifier. Cold air is dry air, right, okay, and
that's what you really feel cold that with a humidifier,
whole house humidifier sixty eight feels closer to seventy two
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than seventy two does when it's dry.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I see what you're saying. See we always set it
out aside sixty eight. What about if I have a
question for you, because some people have oh, second homes
or little weekend getaways and they're not there all through
the week, but then maybe they'll go on the weekend.
So what should they leave their thermostat at if they're
not going to be there for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Usually I recommend around sixty. Okay, film, it's just a
lot of the times when these things don't run right.
It's like when you leave a truck out. If it's
not running, that's when your problems can happen.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right at the very.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Least, we want to run it, not like on godly
seventy one degrees, but just enough that we're really not
gonna have any issues with it while it bunts, but
still gonna run every day, still gonna keeck on, and
still gonna work, keep your pipes in freezing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So, okay, want to come what you need to temperature.
I had a good friend of mine, this is forty
years ago say to me. I said, my heater doesn't
feel like it's the heat is coming out of the vent.
It's barely hot. He goes, that's because your body temperature
is still what's your bots are ninety eight yet, so
when you feel something pumping out seventy two in some
(09:22):
cases doesn't feel over like that makes sense. My question
because do you tell people that or how do you
explain that if you don't think your things percolating out
the right heat. What do you tell them?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That's usually on a heat pump system. Right, it's all electric.
You no longer have that idea of natural gas. What
it does is it essentially pulls outside heat. Right. Okay,
there's not a lot of heat outside, so what it'll
do is it'll get you like a hundred degree heat,
but your ninety eight degrees, so it feels like slightly
luke warm.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Okay, all right, I don't feel super super hot.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But that's really your maintenance heat. You have a heat kit,
you have electric heat, but it's expensive, super expensive. That
heat pumps where you save the money at right, that
just don't work super wellblow like thirty two degrees. There
are some, but like super expensive systems work around negative ten. Right,
(10:16):
But again it's still the idea of it's pulling out
heat from the outside and springing it in, or essentially
it's pulling the coal from inside and taking it outside. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
What about replacing your filters?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Usually I recommend right on a one inch filter, which
is average at the very least, it needs to be
changed every ninety days, right, Okay, I recommend thirty days. Right.
If you have dogs like honestly at.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Least days at least ceiling fans. I've always heard that
depending on which way they're rotating, because you can change
their rotation. Right, which way are you supposed to have
it during the winter to circulate, you know, because how.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
There rises, so you kind of want to more or
less be pushing it down. Do I run my fans
in the window? Hits me, I'll I'll do it when
I'm sleeping.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, so that's a lifesale. Don't put your fan on
in the winter. The ceiling fans.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Doesn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It kind of makes you feel cold down, I mean,
not really good to know what.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So gas, if someone came to you was build a
new home and they had an option of electric or gas,
what would you tell them the go gas?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Why is that it not only it is always more efficient, right,
technically electrics on efficient, But when you get a super
cool season, you're only use that heat chip. You are
spending a lot of money, right, and the gas is
that hot of heat you don't feel when you go
to the event, you actually feel heat coming out.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So, but some part of the country they're trying to
get rid of gas heat. What do you say to that.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
A lot of the places where they are is usually
like in hilly More Hills, and that they are like Kentucky,
they are like a fifty to fifty split between gas
and electric. There are certain rebates if you go electric,
but usually you're gonna be spending more money anyways on it.
And it's not the type of heat that you expect
(12:18):
or want. There's the cool idea of I really really
like electric heat. I think it's cool. I think it's
eco friendly, this, that and the other. But it's not
the heat you expect, and you're gonna get disappointed by it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
How important is it that you insulate your attic?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Huge? Huge? I can't tell you how many times I've
gone into an attic and it was warm in the
wintertime because they've got like two inches of insulation there.
They still have the stick that measures it, you know,
they usually stamp a stick on there on one of
the one of the beams. They're nowhere near where they
(12:53):
need to be, and they are wasting money, really waste
huge amounts because the heat rises once it gets through that,
it's just out the house.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Practically, do it yourself for that's a great question. So
we're do it yourself, or do you just go like
the home deep uror lows and get rolls of it
and just singing across your attic rafter or what do
you recommend?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Not really, honestly, the best way to do is to
get it blown in, which is not really do it yourself? Thinks?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Does it still make you it? You'll ever touch it?
Because yeah, it's like crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think they say. It's like, no, it's not gonna
be huge. No, that's yeah, I'm taking.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
A shot fiberglass. It's it's chopped up fiberglass. That's what
it is. Yeah. Yeah, it's like working on a corvette
and it's like you get it and your it goes
down in your pores. That's why itches. There's micro chips. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, tough to get it out too. So you I
loved how you said when you go into these different
homes and things, you see, what is the craziest thing
that you come across at a house?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, easily it's going to be uh on ninety percent finaces. Right,
you have two pipes that come out of them, right,
you got a fresh ship and you've got an exhaust. Okay,
and this one I come down here and he said
it's not kicking on. The flame's sputtering out.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Just what was in there?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I get down there and he just had kids, right, Okay,
so I guess I kind of understand it a little bit.
He ended up grabbing a couple of socks and putting
it over the low termination in the basement right for
the fresh air. It's only got one hole to breathe
that fresh air in. So we'll all do Is this
(14:31):
not a fire hazard? Not really, because these things are
so safe, right, only a super old one. I could
definitely see it. But he had put socks because I
guess he told me at least he thought his kid
was gonna try to take his hand in there, right,
which I could see, although the finnest is forty five.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'd stick my hand in one more time. My dad's
hands becross my rear.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Right, and they choked. They crightly choked the system out right,
so the flame would kick on. Then say no, you
gotta get some yeah, and then it just kick off, right,
and then it just goes our safety system. It locks out,
and about six hours later it does the same thing.
And I get there, I says, what's this?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You pulled it out?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Pull it off, I kick it on, kicks right on,
starts eating, starts working.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You probably felt so stupid. Yeah, oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And then you know the question money you drove a
prius by all right.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We gotta go to break, but when we come back,
we want to take your calls. Have you ever been
in that situation where right when you need your heat
the most, your furnace breaks. Let's relive some of those moments.
It ever happened to you? Call us up at six
one four eight two one nine eight eight six six
one four eight two one nine eight eight six How
cold was it when your furnace? Oh busted? It happens
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to all.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Of us, happened? Yes, we're all mini oh watching Mini?
A thought the weather again. I'm like, no MINDI carryo
game at the lake.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know what I was showing Boots. Boots really does
a good job when in karaokes. I mean you really
like it. You've got your enjoy song and so you're
comfortable with it. And when you karaoke it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I just try to carry a tune something well, I.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Have no look at that at all. We had karaoke.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Karaoke is about having fun.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I did a Christmas song, jingle bell rock. I
just if there's one thing I wish I could do,
I wish I could sing, but I can't sing a lick.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
But serious?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Do you ever a karaoke when you were when you're
working on a furnace? Do you sing? And what keeps you?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You know? When I'm driving in my car? Yeah, yeah,
I don't think I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You're out to stop light and you're singing to yourself
and then all of a sudden you look over and
someone's looking at you and laughing. The thing with Austin,
So his family has this company, Fast Response Heating and Cooling,
and they're great partners of ours. But you know what,
when we approach different companies to become part of the show,
we really want to believe in these companies, and especially
(16:57):
if they're family oriented. Yes, well I don't. I don't
think there's probably a more family oriented company than Fast Response.
Austin is in here with us. Austin has seventeen brothers
and sisters.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Same parents, same mom. Your mother has had eighteen children.
You have to look at her and just give her
the biggest hug.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Go.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't know how you did a mom. Yeah, I
just I can't rap. And when I tell people that
they can't wrap their head around like seven, you go, wow, right,
but eighteen I'm not picking on I just am baffled
of what the world record is. You have to be
in the top at.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Least in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You got to be at least saying in Ohio. I bet,
but I think I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What they're not a single set of twins?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Do you get confused at all with your sisters and
brother's names? So you have to buy everybody a Christmas present?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You know? I mean I have once a trice, right,
A lot of times you got the same hair killer
from the back. It's hard to tell. Yeah, once you
get a look at them, it's not the worst.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We bring a girlfriend home, what does she say?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Don't do you have to buy everybody at Christmas gift?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You know what I usually do is uh, I just
get everyone the same thing, one president of the same thing.
It makes it a whole lot easier.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Do you know what you're getting on this year?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
This year, I'm getting a necklace. I had a nice
new scripture on it. So what is the scripture this
one's going to be a John three sixteen.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Really, bedroom does your parents have in their house?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Can I just tell you seventeen and and hopefully you
don't ask anything about it. It's a massive house.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You know what. I bet that heat always works.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I bet you the best.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
He always works.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
We got all sorts of UV lights and humidifiers on it.
I tell you, I'll walk my house.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
A lot of bunk beds.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
UV lights talk a little bit about that. That makes
a big difference, huge difference.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
On electric systems. Electric systems have a them right they're made.
It's an insulated box right with the electric strip in it.
They have the largest amount of bacterial growth. It's not
funny until you all open one of those up and
it's like spored together. The scores are holding the door on. Really,
(19:19):
in those cases, it's almost just better to get a
new system, right, But with the new system, before you
get to that point, it's good to have about three
UV lights. Right, you've got an a coil. A lot
of people buy like one. If you get one, where
do you position them? You have an so it's put
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it's an a right, you're going to be in the
middle of the A. That's gonna hit the inner part
of that a coil, right, and then you're gonna be
on the right and left side of that coil. Also right,
we're also gonna hit the walls. Right, it's gonna hit
the walls beside it all that insulat wall. Make sure
that you don't get that bacterial growth.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
That's pretty bad, And the worst thing about it is
it's the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We've got does it just stop?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
One in every four people, right cannot handle it. The
body can't handle it, so they just get sick.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You were a wealth of information to you. Where can
people get more information about Fast Response heating and cooling?
Because use these guys, We trust them, their outstanding and
we want to support this family of twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So the easiest place just go to fast response dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Right, easy enough.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You can book everything, get everything done through there. It's
super super easy.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
What about us old school people and make a phone call.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
We call a phone call.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's six to one four something.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Cool, Yeah, it's six four your commercials.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
But Chris just gave you a message right there.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay. The world record burst by one woman is sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
One woman had sixty nine kids.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's the world Russia though that don't count.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It doesn't sound like that counts to me.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Whatever sick Can you imagine that almost seventy kids? Yeah,
you're still our champion in Ohio anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I tell you what, I've had a lot of heating
and cooling people on. But for being twenty two to twenty,
how old are you twenty three? You know this business?
Your dad has a superstar that it's going to take over
some day when he retires.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I got a whole bunch of pictures of me just
holding a scowdriver a flashlight.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You hard, hard time, We'll see We'll see you next time.
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
There's a whole lot of melting going on.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I know that I could tell you a little bit
about the weather. Yes today brought to you by the
Basement Doctor.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I know that.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hold on a second.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
There's just a lot of melting.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Six First Warning Weather today. It's gonna be cloudy, high
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Boots. You would have loved that job because you can
get paid to be wrong. Okay, are we on the
air now, all right? Just trying to give the forecast
the weather. You did a good job.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
What is it outside right now? It's probably close to forty.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's one of the easiest jobs you can think of
because you can be wrong, turn and still get paid.
I'm just kidding. Those meteorologists are so smart, they're so
mathematically inclined and scientifically inclined. But we're helping you today
because it's that time of the year that we crank
up the heat, oh did I? And we crank out
cash because we have to pay such higher utility bills.
(01:03):
So who's our gas boots?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
This is Austin. He's one of the fine leaders. A
fast response. His dad started a company. How many years, Austin,
way way back.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I don't even know if I can image before you
were born. Oh I was born about that?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Right, And you've been out to my house to fix
my stuff, haven't you get Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, And I know Joshua's too, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Fast boy.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
They're good at it, you know what, Austin. That's what's
so important people because when their furnace breaks down, they
want it fixed yesterday. And when they are told, well,
you're on a waiting list, we have so many people
to get to. It may be a few days, maybe
by the end of the week. You can't go without
heat for that long, right, Why is being there fast
(01:45):
for people so important to your company?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
For the most part, other than honestly, just being without
heat is horrible.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
You have the.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Issue of freezing pipes right oh yeah, And even when
you're not thinking about it, you have the issue of
what was that one thing, Camember.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Carbon monoxide monoxide?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, your minding of it.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
That's a big thing.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
There's a couple of really big things that you don't
think about you can't be without heat with four.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Week would you say I do it yourself or shouldn't
do his? Hear her furnace? That could be scary, Yeah, Carl,
monoxide pops in my head. Was lost.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's odorless, it's it's tasteless. You don't know what's there. Yeah, right,
that's the worst part about it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And it gets you in your sleep, gets you in
your sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's things you just don't wake up. You just don't
realize it a lot of times, and for most people, right,
it's not as much. It's like a little crack. So
you'll have really bad headaches, right, you'll be nauseous, You'll
be throwing up all over the place. You don't even
know why. Okay, oh it's just one a time. I'm
getting sick.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know, are more prevalent in the winter.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh well, it's only in the window because we don't
use the heat in summer. We're using natural gas, right,
and so I buy product of that bunning is the
carbon monoxide. So in the summer time it's a little
bit different. You have issues like free on leaks, which
can definitely make you sick, right, But in the winter
time it goes from being sick to being dead. Right,
it's huge because carbon noxie will kill you.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well, there are carbon monoxide detectors out there.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Do they work?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
They do?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
How do they work? Really? How do they detect it?
If it's colorless, odorless? I mean, how do they work?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
They're weird? What they do?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
They're weird.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
It's a very strange thing. It's kind of like just
with your smoke a lumps. It goes to a chemical
process and that's how it finds it out. But most
importantly with them is they're pretty high. Right, A lot
of people won't know till they're dead. You can have
a carbon monoxide detector on the tailpipe of your ruck,
right and it'll take up with the thirty minutes for
it to go off.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh and that's.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Sitting directly on the exhaustia truck, right, So how much
has to get in your house before it gets it?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
They have ultra low ones, right, which is pretty much
the only ones you should get. But like the one
you just pick up at Low's because it was there
and it was cheap and it was on clearance. Yeah,
it's so ultra low detection pretty much. So if you
look at them, there's lots of there's ones that have
screens they'll detect very low levels like ten parts per million, right,
(04:27):
And then you have the majority of them, right, which
is just a basic one. Ran an Amazon Basics one
that won't go to almost one hundred. Right.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So you say you put them over exhaust pipes of
vehicles and it takes up to thirty minutes for it
to go off. Yeah, ouch, which is every Okay, there's
a show today. I learned me something new today I had.
I've never ever heard that, I thought, honestly, is yeah,
she works. She looks for deals. I looked for just
(04:57):
finding the stupid thing and sticking it up and convenience.
It's right, I don't really price them. I look at
I get the most expensive carbon monoxide because of my mind,
A better carburetor makes the car run better, so I
think a better carbon monoxide would make the carbon monoxide
sniff better. But man, you taught us.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Something, Austin. Are there things people can do to lower
their electric bills? Are there things they can do around
the house cost saving things that can help.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Not easily? Right, There's things like air balancing, right, but
that's not really like I do it yourself. Thing. And
then the thing is you just you can't really balance
the air through the vents. If you imagine it like
a garden hose. A lot of people say, I just
close off the vents in the rooms I don't use. Okay,
what happens when you put your thumb over a garden hose,
you build that extra pressure, right, you just move into
(05:44):
somewhere else, right, It doesn't help. It puts more pressure
on the system. I actually increase your bills. It's still
trying to warm the whole house, isn't it. Okay, now
it's just having a more difficult time.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
We need to go to break But we're going to
break down the barrier because I've heard of some wives
tales that can really help around the house to lower
those costs. We're going to put you on the spot
to see if those are just wives tales or if
they really work, things like opening your blinds to let
you know natural sunlight and things like that. We're gonna
break it down because we want people to try to
save money.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Right absolutely, All right, Austin, We'll be back with more
with a fast response. This is raw with many of boothslents.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
How much money do you spend each winter on those
electric bills. I can't stand this time of the year.
They crank up those bills same in the dead of
the heat of the summer too. We pay so much
when it comes to the AC. But we are dispelling
some wives tales or going to get to the truth
about it because Austin with fast response cooling and heating
is in here. Austin, you ready for these just about right?
(06:43):
So we asked you about opening the blinds letting sunlight
in to help natural light kind of warm your kitchen,
you're setting your dining room. Whatever is that true? Can
that make a difference?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It definitely can right that actual the sugn itself is
going to help, right, at least it's gonna warm that
area a little bit more right when the sun's out.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Right, See that's true. And you don't see the sunshine
too much here in Columbius.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Five degrees out and you open the blind just could
see the sun. But the sun's not doing its job.
He's on break right then, it really doesn't do much.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Right, It's gotta be a sunny day for that to happen.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Right. Usually if you have a nice sign out, it
can definitely help. Right. It's not gonna be like a
huge difference, but it can definitely help.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay, I got a whole list here. What about adjusting
your thermostat what should we keep it at instead of
moving it back and question?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
So there's a couple of things on that, right. Average
is about seventy one to seventy two.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
None of my sister's house, she keeps hers at like
sixty not anymore.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's not bad, right, I'm at seventy one. That's right,
keep it out. I'll break the name rules.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
The biggest thing you can do right to build lower
that temperature while still being comfortable is to actually get
a humidifier. Cold air is dry air, right, okay, and
that's what you really feel cold that with a humidifier,
whole house humidifier sixty eight feels closer to seventy two
(08:11):
than seventy two does when it's dry.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
I see what you're saying. See we always set it
out aside sixty eight. What about if I have a
question for you, because some people have oh, second homes
or little weekend getaways and they're not there all through
the week, but then maybe they'll go on the weekend.
So what should they leave their thermostat at if they're
not going to be there for a while.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Usually I recommend around sixty. Okay, film, it's just a
lot of the times when these things don't run right.
It's like when you leave a truck out. If it's
not running, that's when your problems can happen.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Right at the very.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Least, we want to run it, not like on godly
seventy one degrees, but just enough that we're really not
gonna have any issues with it while it bunts, but
still gonna run every day, still gonna keeck on, and
still gonna work, keep your pipes in freezing.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
So, okay, want to come what you need to temperature.
I had a good friend of mine, this is forty
years ago say to me. I said, my heater doesn't
feel like it's the heat is coming out of the vent.
It's barely hot. He goes, that's because your body temperature
is still what's your bots are ninety eight yet, so
when you feel something pumping out seventy two in some
(09:22):
cases doesn't feel over like that makes sense. My question
because do you tell people that or how do you
explain that if you don't think your things percolating out
the right heat. What do you tell them?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
That's usually on a heat pump system. Right, it's all electric.
You no longer have that idea of natural gas. What
it does is it essentially pulls outside heat. Right. Okay,
there's not a lot of heat outside, so what it'll
do is it'll get you like a hundred degree heat,
but your ninety eight degrees, so it feels like slightly
luke warm.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Okay, all right, I don't feel super super hot.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But that's really your maintenance heat. You have a heat kit,
you have electric heat, but it's expensive, super expensive. That
heat pumps where you save the money at right, that
just don't work super wellblow like thirty two degrees. There
are some, but like super expensive systems work around negative ten. Right,
(10:16):
But again it's still the idea of it's pulling out
heat from the outside and springing it in, or essentially
it's pulling the coal from inside and taking it outside. Right.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
What about replacing your filters?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Usually I recommend right on a one inch filter, which
is average at the very least, it needs to be
changed every ninety days, right, Okay, I recommend thirty days. Right.
If you have dogs like honestly at.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Least days at least ceiling fans. I've always heard that
depending on which way they're rotating, because you can change
their rotation. Right, which way are you supposed to have
it during the winter to circulate, you know, because how.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
There rises, so you kind of want to more or
less be pushing it down. Do I run my fans
in the window? Hits me, I'll I'll do it when
I'm sleeping.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Okay, so that's a lifesale. Don't put your fan on
in the winter. The ceiling fans.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Doesn't do anything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
It kind of makes you feel cold down, I mean,
not really good to know what.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
So gas, if someone came to you was build a
new home and they had an option of electric or gas,
what would you tell them the go gas?
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Why is that it not only it is always more efficient, right,
technically electrics on efficient, But when you get a super
cool season, you're only use that heat chip. You are
spending a lot of money, right, and the gas is
that hot of heat you don't feel when you go
to the event, you actually feel heat coming out.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
So, but some part of the country they're trying to
get rid of gas heat. What do you say to that.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
A lot of the places where they are is usually
like in hilly More Hills, and that they are like Kentucky,
they are like a fifty to fifty split between gas
and electric. There are certain rebates if you go electric,
but usually you're gonna be spending more money anyways on it.
And it's not the type of heat that you expect
(12:18):
or want. There's the cool idea of I really really
like electric heat. I think it's cool. I think it's
eco friendly, this, that and the other. But it's not
the heat you expect, and you're gonna get disappointed by it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
How important is it that you insulate your attic?
Speaker 3 (12:33):
Huge? Huge? I can't tell you how many times I've
gone into an attic and it was warm in the
wintertime because they've got like two inches of insulation there.
They still have the stick that measures it, you know,
they usually stamp a stick on there on one of
the one of the beams. They're nowhere near where they
(12:53):
need to be, and they are wasting money, really waste
huge amounts because the heat rises once it gets through that,
it's just out the house.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Practically, do it yourself for that's a great question. So
we're do it yourself, or do you just go like
the home deep uror lows and get rolls of it
and just singing across your attic rafter or what do
you recommend?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Not really, honestly, the best way to do is to
get it blown in, which is not really do it yourself? Thinks?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Does it still make you it? You'll ever touch it?
Because yeah, it's like crazy.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think they say. It's like, no, it's not gonna
be huge. No, that's yeah, I'm taking.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
A shot fiberglass. It's it's chopped up fiberglass. That's what
it is. Yeah. Yeah, it's like working on a corvette
and it's like you get it and your it goes
down in your pores. That's why itches. There's micro chips. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, tough to get it out too. So you I
loved how you said when you go into these different
homes and things, you see, what is the craziest thing
that you come across at a house?
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Well, easily it's going to be uh on ninety percent finaces. Right,
you have two pipes that come out of them, right,
you got a fresh ship and you've got an exhaust. Okay,
and this one I come down here and he said
it's not kicking on. The flame's sputtering out.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Just what was in there?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
I get down there and he just had kids, right, Okay,
so I guess I kind of understand it a little bit.
He ended up grabbing a couple of socks and putting
it over the low termination in the basement right for
the fresh air. It's only got one hole to breathe
that fresh air in. So we'll all do Is this
(14:31):
not a fire hazard? Not really, because these things are
so safe, right, only a super old one. I could
definitely see it. But he had put socks because I
guess he told me at least he thought his kid
was gonna try to take his hand in there, right,
which I could see, although the finnest is forty five.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I'd stick my hand in one more time. My dad's
hands becross my rear.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
Right, and they choked. They crightly choked the system out right,
so the flame would kick on. Then say no, you
gotta get some yeah, and then it just kick off, right,
and then it just goes our safety system. It locks out,
and about six hours later it does the same thing.
And I get there, I says, what's this?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You pulled it out?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Pull it off, I kick it on, kicks right on,
starts eating, starts working.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You probably felt so stupid. Yeah, oh, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And then you know the question money you drove a
prius by all right.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
We gotta go to break, but when we come back,
we want to take your calls. Have you ever been
in that situation where right when you need your heat
the most, your furnace breaks. Let's relive some of those moments.
It ever happened to you? Call us up at six
one four eight two one nine eight eight six six
one four eight two one nine eight eight six How
cold was it when your furnace? Oh busted? It happens
(15:49):
to all.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Of us, happened? Yes, we're all mini oh watching Mini?
A thought the weather again. I'm like, no MINDI carryo
game at the lake.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know what I was showing Boots. Boots really does
a good job when in karaokes. I mean you really
like it. You've got your enjoy song and so you're
comfortable with it. And when you karaoke it's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I just try to carry a tune something well, I.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Have no look at that at all. We had karaoke.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Karaoke is about having fun.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I did a Christmas song, jingle bell rock. I
just if there's one thing I wish I could do,
I wish I could sing, but I can't sing a lick.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
But serious?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Do you ever a karaoke when you were when you're
working on a furnace? Do you sing? And what keeps you?
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You know? When I'm driving in my car? Yeah, yeah,
I don't think I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You're out to stop light and you're singing to yourself
and then all of a sudden you look over and
someone's looking at you and laughing. The thing with Austin,
So his family has this company, Fast Response Heating and Cooling,
and they're great partners of ours. But you know what,
when we approach different companies to become part of the show,
we really want to believe in these companies, and especially
(16:57):
if they're family oriented. Yes, well I don't. I don't
think there's probably a more family oriented company than Fast Response.
Austin is in here with us. Austin has seventeen brothers
and sisters.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Same parents, same mom. Your mother has had eighteen children.
You have to look at her and just give her
the biggest hug.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Go.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I don't know how you did a mom. Yeah, I
just I can't rap. And when I tell people that
they can't wrap their head around like seven, you go, wow, right,
but eighteen I'm not picking on I just am baffled
of what the world record is. You have to be
in the top at.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Least in Ohio.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You got to be at least saying in Ohio. I bet,
but I think I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
What they're not a single set of twins?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Do you get confused at all with your sisters and
brother's names? So you have to buy everybody a Christmas present?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
You know? I mean I have once a trice, right,
A lot of times you got the same hair killer
from the back. It's hard to tell. Yeah, once you
get a look at them, it's not the worst.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
We bring a girlfriend home, what does she say?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
You just don't.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Don't do you have to buy everybody at Christmas gift?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You know what I usually do is uh, I just
get everyone the same thing, one president of the same thing.
It makes it a whole lot easier.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Do you know what you're getting on this year?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
This year, I'm getting a necklace. I had a nice
new scripture on it. So what is the scripture this
one's going to be a John three sixteen.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Really, bedroom does your parents have in their house?
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Can I just tell you seventeen and and hopefully you
don't ask anything about it. It's a massive house.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
You know what. I bet that heat always works.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
I bet you the best.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
He always works.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
We got all sorts of UV lights and humidifiers on it.
I tell you, I'll walk my house.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
A lot of bunk beds.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
So wait a minute.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
UV lights talk a little bit about that. That makes
a big difference, huge difference.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
On electric systems. Electric systems have a them right they're made.
It's an insulated box right with the electric strip in it.
They have the largest amount of bacterial growth. It's not
funny until you all open one of those up and
it's like spored together. The scores are holding the door on. Really,
(19:19):
in those cases, it's almost just better to get a
new system, right, But with the new system, before you
get to that point, it's good to have about three
UV lights. Right, you've got an a coil. A lot
of people buy like one. If you get one, where
do you position them? You have an so it's put
(19:40):
it's an a right, you're going to be in the
middle of the A. That's gonna hit the inner part
of that a coil, right, and then you're gonna be
on the right and left side of that coil. Also right,
we're also gonna hit the walls. Right, it's gonna hit
the walls beside it all that insulat wall. Make sure
that you don't get that bacterial growth.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Right.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
That's pretty bad, And the worst thing about it is
it's the gift that keeps on giving.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We've got does it just stop?
Speaker 3 (20:03):
One in every four people, right cannot handle it. The
body can't handle it, so they just get sick.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You were a wealth of information to you. Where can
people get more information about Fast Response heating and cooling?
Because use these guys, We trust them, their outstanding and
we want to support this family of twenty.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
So the easiest place just go to fast response dot com.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Right, easy enough.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
You can book everything, get everything done through there. It's
super super easy.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
What about us old school people and make a phone call.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
We call a phone call.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
It's six to one four something.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Cool, Yeah, it's six four your commercials.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
But Chris just gave you a message right there.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Okay. The world record burst by one woman is sixty nine.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
One woman had sixty nine kids.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
That's the world Russia though that don't count.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
It doesn't sound like that counts to me.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Whatever sick Can you imagine that almost seventy kids? Yeah,
you're still our champion in Ohio anyway.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I tell you what, I've had a lot of heating
and cooling people on. But for being twenty two to twenty,
how old are you twenty three? You know this business?
Your dad has a superstar that it's going to take over
some day when he retires.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I got a whole bunch of pictures of me just
holding a scowdriver a flashlight.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You hard, hard time, We'll see We'll see you next time.
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