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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Karches [mailto:tkarches AT gmail.com]
>Now I move onto bigger things : HVAC (heating
>and AC....don't know what the V is)
Ventilation

>[....trimmed ]
>
>I'm still decoding the document that he left with my wife...I don't
>know much more now than when I started. I do have a pile of brochures
>for $3000 whole house dehumidifiers, $1400 magic UV sterilizing
>"certified space technology" lamps, $1100 filtration systems and $700
>to clean my ducts. And thats before we even price the air conditioning
>unit. Something smells fishy (and I don't think that there are fish in
>my ducts...)

There is a nice website containing myth-busting for HVAC at 
http://hphaa.com/knowledge/FAQs/faqs.htm - the writer of most of the material 
on that website is in San Francisco area, so the site does not offer local 
recommendations.

There is a research report about performance of dehumidifier systems at 
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy05osti/36643.pdf

I would dump this HVAC company. Ask your neighbors for recommendations.
Esther