The Blackberry Lazarus

How much abuse can a smartphone take? None, right? Gone are the days of ‘Takes a Licking, Keeps on Ticking’. We are in the age of planned obsolescence. If they make a gadget that will last for decades, you won’t buy another one for decades. So every year you’re...

FREE FURNACE GIVE-AWAY ANNOUNCED!

The Richardsonʼs receive the gift of warmth this Christmas! Heather Richardson started to cry when she opened the door to the Afterglow team in Santa hats. The Richardsonʼs are the winners of the Afterglow Free Furnace Give-Away! “We were really struck by the...

Blown Softener

Your experience of turning on the faucet and being rewarded with hot water is a daily luxury you probably take for granted.  When the taps yield no heat, it’s easy to assume that there is a problem with the water heater.  In this case study, the innocent tankless...

Furnace Giveaway – Thanks for the Submissions!

We closed the nominations for the first annual Afterglow Furnace Giveaway last night at midnight. Thank you to everyone that sent in nominations.  We promise to read every nomination and pick the most suitable candidate. Over the next week our team will make home...

The Future We Were Promised

Every once in awhile a technological breakthrough happens that changes our lives for the better.  The benchmark of new gadgets was set in 1928 with the invention of the bread-slicing machine. Since then, science and technology have been been promising that a bright,...

Helping a Family in Need!

  T’is the season! I’m Stephen McDonald and I’m the General Manger of Afterglow.  We are a local company that offers heating and cooling products and services.  When I started working for the family business years ago, I always tried to find ways that the company...

Infraction Notice

As licensed gas fitters, sometimes we have responsibilities that make us unpopular.  When we’re on the job and we see something that contravenes the gas code, we’re not allowed to look the other way.  Safety is the only reason why these rules exist.  Funny, we often...

Movember is upon us!

Thursday morning marks the first day of November and also the first day of our next charity project. All the Afterglow guys are participating in Movember, which means we’re growing moustaches to help raise money and awareness for prostate cancer and men’s...

Afterglow goes PINK!

Afterglow’s Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign For the month of October, Afterglow is going pink in support of Breast Cancer awareness month. Over nine thousand Ontario women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year and two thousand women will die from it....