This is Fred Ball for Zions Bank, speaking on business.

I like to keep my house warm inside during the cold winter months, but I don't always feel so warm inside when the heating bill comes. Gene Anderson, owner of Air Design Heating and Cooling, helps customers minimize their gas bills by maximizing energy efficiency in their heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems.

While many older heating and air conditioning systems are only about 40 percent energy-efficient, the Murray company installs systems that are up to 95 percent energy-efficient. Gene says a high-efficiency system will pay for itself in just a few years.

Air Design experts teach customers to program thermostats for maximum efficiency. For example, instead of setting the thermostat at a high temperature when they are gone and then cranking the air conditioning way up when they get home, they set the system to slightly warmer temperatures during the day and then program it to return to a comfortable temperature by the time they arrive home.

Owners Gene Anderson and Rhett Marshall learned the heating and air conditioning business working for Don Marshall, Rhett's father and Gene's father-in-law, at Marshall Heating in Salt Lake City. In 1995, Rhett and Gene started Design Heating and Cooling.

The company has since grown from those two employees to 105 employees. Gene tells me they serve commercial and residential clients across the Wasatch Front and in Park City and Tooele County. Much of the company's business comes from large homebuilders such as Ivory Homes, Richmond American Homes and Fieldstone Homes.

Air Design installs and services heating and cooling systems as well as humidifiers, air purification systems and radiant heat. Gene says indoor air quality has been extremely important to homeowners recently because of people with allergies, dry skin and other problems.

Air Design Heating and Cooling in Murray helps make customers' homes a place where they want to be.

For Zions Bank, I'm Fred Ball. I'm speaking on business.

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