A good night’s sleep often starts before your head hits the pillow. The habits you follow in the evening can make it easier to relax, settle in, and prepare your body for sleep. This is often referred to as sleep hygiene, which simply means the routines, behaviors, and environment that support healt…

Most Richmond homeowners who call about a hot upstairs bedroom or a summer power bill that keeps climbing assume the problem is the air conditioner. Often it is not. In a typical home, roughly 20 to 30 percent of the heated and cooled air never reaches the rooms it was paid for, because it escapes t…