Day: July 23, 2026

When July settles over Mount Holly and the Catawba River valley, the humidity does not just make it feel hotter, it makes your whole home work harder to stay comfortable. Afternoon highs in the low 90s paired with Piedmont humidity put your air conditioner under real strain, and that is exactly when small problems turn into no-cool emergencies. Knowing how to keep your house cool in summer is about more

If your dog treats the outdoor AC unit like the neighborhood fire hydrant, it is doing more damage than you might think. That condenser sitting beside your house in Mount Holly is wrapped in thin aluminum fins and copper tubing, and dog urine is surprisingly hard on both. The salts and acids in pee cling to the metal, dry in the summer sun, and slowly eat away at the coil