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Heating & Cooling the Front Range is a small online magazine about heating and cooling houses in Denver and the cities along the Front Range: Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Westminster, Littleton, Englewood, Boulder and their neighbors. It publishes long reads rather than quick tips, because most of the decisions here, a swamp cooler or central air, a furnace or a heat pump, what a rebate is really worth, take more than a paragraph to explain honestly.
What the stories are built on
Each feature is written from published sources: federal agencies such as the Department of Energy, ENERGY STAR and the EPA; NOAA and the National Weather Service office in Boulder; the Colorado Climate Center, the Colorado Energy Office and the state health department; the City and County of Denver and its suburbs; Xcel Energy's own rebate pages; and equipment makers' owner manuals. Every figure is linked to the page it came from, and the sources are listed at the end of each story. Where an official page could only be read through an archived copy, the story says so.
Nothing here is based on our own testing, and there are no reviews, ratings, customer stories or quotes from people we interviewed. Where the sources leave a question open, the story says that too, rather than filling the gap.
Dates
Each story shows the date its sources were last checked. Rebates, tax credits and city rules are the parts most likely to change, so those are dated in the text as well. Check the program's own page before you sign anything.
What this site is not
This magazine is not a heating and cooling contractor. It does no installs, repairs, maintenance or service calls, takes no bookings and gives no quotes. It is not connected to Xcel Energy, the City and County of Denver or any other agency it cites.
Who owns it
The people who publish this site also own a plumbing and HVAC supply store, two water treatment stores and a heating, cooling and plumbing service company in Pennsylvania. A few stories link to them where the link is genuinely useful, and every one of those links carries a note saying so. The full list is on Stores we own.