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Water Prices Are Rising: 7 Ways Southern California Homeowners Can Stop Leaking Money

Water Prices Are Rising: 7 Ways Southern California Homeowners Can Stop Leaking Money

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted in April 2024 to raise rates 8.5% in 2025 and another 8.5% in 2026 affecting 19 million residents across Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and surrounding counties. If your water bill has jumped and your habits haven't changed, rising rates are part of the story. But leaks, inefficient fixtures, and unfiltered water running through damaged pipes are likely making it worse. Here's how to take control.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 9/30/26, 9:26 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor

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Protecting Indoor Air Quality During El NiNo and Wildfire Season

Protecting Indoor Air Quality During El NiNo and Wildfire Season

El Niño creates two distinct indoor air quality threats for Southern California homeowners: excess moisture from heavy rain that promotes growth from microorganisms such as mold, mildew, and bacteria, as well as dry, windy periods between storms that elevate wildfire risk and smoke. Managing indoor air quality (IAQ) through the El Niño season means addressing both. The right filtration, humidity control, and HVAC maintenance strategy can handle both scenarios from the same systems already in your home.
Southern California homeowners are used to thinking about wildfire smoke as a summer and fall concern. But El Niño winters create a paradox: heavy storm periods bring moisture and risk of microbial growth, while dry spells between storms, often accompanied by powerful Santa Ana winds, create elevated wildfire danger.
Your home's HVAC system is at the center of both problems. It's also the solution. Here's how to protect your family's indoor air quality through everything an El Niño winter can throw at your home.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 9/30/26, 9:02 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor [fa icon="folder-open'] Air Quality, Air conditioning

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Whole-Home Generators: Are They Worth It During El NiNo?

Whole-Home Generators: Are They Worth It During El NiNo?

For Inland Empire homeowners with medical equipment, home businesses, aging family members, or simply the expectation of staying home during a multi-day outage, a whole-home standby generator is absolutely worth the investment. For households that can comfortably ride out shorter outages or plan to evacuate, a quality portable generator may be sufficient. The determining factor is how long you can realistically function without power, and an El Nino winter will test that answer.
El Niño brings a lot of things to Southern California like heavy rain, flooding, mudslides, atmospheric rivers. What it also brings, consistently, is power outages. When saturated ground causes trees to topple onto power lines, when lightning strikes substations, when high winds combine with wet conditions to trip circuit breakers across the grid, Southern California Edison and other utilities restore power on a priority basis. Critical infrastructure first. Major commercial areas second. Your street when they get to it.
During strong El Niño events, that wait has historically stretched into multiple days for some Inland Empire neighborhoods. The question isn't just whether a generator is worth the cost, it's what you lose if the power goes out for 48 or 72 hours.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 9/30/26, 8:59 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor

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Electrical Safety Tips for El NiNo Storm Season in Southern California

Electrical Safety Tips for El NiNo Storm Season in Southern California

El Niño storms create three distinct electrical hazards for Southern California homeowners: power surges from lightning and grid instability that can damage electronics and appliances, GFCI failures that create shock hazards near water, and improper generator use that can cause carbon monoxide poisoning or backfeed that endangers utility workers. Addressing all three with pre-season preparation is straightforward and far less expensive than the alternative.
Electricity and water are a dangerous combination. El Niño delivers a lot of water. That's why electrical preparation is one of the most important and most overlooked parts of storm season readiness for Southern California homeowners. Burgeson's experienced electricians work alongside our HVAC and plumbing teams to make sure Inland Empire homes are protected from the full range of El Niño risks. Here's what every homeowner should know and do before storm season arrives.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 9/30/26, 8:53 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor

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Why Every Homeowner Should Schedule an HVAC Tune-Up Before El NiNo

Why Every Homeowner Should Schedule an HVAC Tune-Up Before El NiNo

El Niño storms stress your HVAC system in ways that regular use doesn't. Heavy humidity loads can clog condensate drains. Power fluctuations from grid instability may damage control boards. Flooding near the outdoor unit can compromise electrical components. A professional pre-season tune-up can help mitigate all of that before a storm hits.
Most homeowners think of their HVAC system as just a summer/winter thing: AC in July, heating in December. But the truth is that wet El Niño weather can hit your system hard in ways that a dry Southern California year never would.
Burgeson's technicians have fielded calls during and after every major storm season for 77 years. The pattern is consistent: the calls that come in during a storm almost always involve systems that hadn't been serviced in a while. The families who called us before the season? They typically stay comfortable.
Here's what happens to your HVAC system during an El Niño winter and why a tune-up before storm season is one of the smartest investments you can make.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 9/30/26, 7:58 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor

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How to Prepare Your Southern California Home for El NiNo: A Complete Homeowner Guide

How to Prepare Your Southern California Home for El Nino: A Complete Homeowner Guide

NOAA has confirmed a new El Niño has formed as of June 2026, with a 63% chance of becoming one of the strongest on record since 1950. The event is expected to peak November 2026–January 2027, bringing the storm track directly over Southern California with above-average rainfall, flash flooding risk, high winds, and potential power outages for the Inland Empire. The time to prepare your home is now, before storm season arrives.
If you've lived in the Inland Empire for more than a decade, you remember what a strong El Niño winter looks like. Gutters overwhelmed. Hillsides moving. Power out for days. Streets that haven't seen standing water in years suddenly flooded.
Now forecasters are saying this one could be historic. At Burgeson's, we've been helping Inland Empire homeowners prepare their homes for whatever Southern California's weather delivers since 1949. This guide covers every system in your home that El Niño can stress and what to do about each one before the first major storm rolls in.
Our Full El Niño Series (links to)
  • Why You Need an HVAC Tune-Up Before El Niño
  • Whole-Home Generators: Are They Worth It?
  • Protecting Indoor Air Quality During El Niño & Wildfire Season
  • Prevent Plumbing Problems Before Heavy Rain
  • Electrical Safety Tips for El Niño Storm Season

[fa icon="clock-o"] 9/17/26, 11:10 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor

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Prevent Plumbing Problems Before El Nino Brings Heavy Rain: A Southern California Homeowner's Guide

Prevent Plumbing Problems Before El Nino Brings Heavy Rain: A Southern California Homeowner's Guide

Heavy El Niño rainfall reveals plumbing vulnerabilities that dry Southern California years completely hide. Saturated ground raises water tables, overwhelming slow or partially blocked drains. Storm water volume can exceed what municipal sewer systems are designed to handle, pushing water backward through home drain lines. A pre-season plumbing inspection and a few targeted preventative measures can be the difference between staying dry and a very expensive cleanup.
Southern California plumbing systems are designed for a semi-arid climate. Drain lines that work perfectly well during our typical dry years can be completely overwhelmed during a sustained El Niño event, and the problems that result are among the most expensive and disruptive a homeowner can face.
At Burgeson's, our plumbing team has seen firsthand how heavy Southern California storms can impact homes. In our experience, homeowners who take a few preventative steps before a storm are often better prepared to protect their homes and plumbing systems.
Here's what to do, and why it matters.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 9/17/26, 11:07 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor [fa icon="folder-open'] Plumbing, Plumbing Costs

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HVAC Careers and Technician Training: How Burgeson’s Continues to Grow in Southern California

HVAC Careers and Technician Training: How Burgeson’s Continues to Grow in Southern California

Burgeson’s Heating, A/C, Electrical, Solar & Plumbing has served Southern California home and business owners since 1949, and our continued growth comes down to one simple belief: great service starts with great people.

As experienced HVAC technicians across the industry retire, companies everywhere are working hard to train the next generation. At Burgeson’s, we see that challenge as an opportunity. We invest in motivated individuals, provide hands-on training, and build long-term career paths for people who want to serve home and business owners with skill, professionalism, and care.

Whether you own a home or a business and are wondering who is showing up at your door or someone exploring an HVAC career in the Inland Empire, here is how Burgeson’s continues to grow while keeping service quality at the center of everything we do.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 8/11/26, 6:36 AM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor

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HVAC Maintenance Tips from the Pros: What Southern California Homeowners Need to Know

HVAC Maintenance Tips from the Pros: What Southern California Homeowners Need to Know

HVAC Maintenance Tips from the Pros: What Southern California Homeowners Need to Know

If your HVAC system isn't getting regular attention, you're setting it up to fail - usually at the worst possible time. Here at Burgeson's Heating, A/C, Electrical, Solar & Plumbing, we've seen it play out countless times: a system that hasn't been serviced in years giving out during the first serious heat wave of the Inland Empire summer.

The good news? Most HVAC breakdowns are preventable. This guide covers both what professional technicians look for during a tune-up and what homeowners can do on their own to protect their investment.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 8/10/26, 4:57 PM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor

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Variable Speed HVAC Systems: How They Work & Why They're Worth It

Variable Speed HVAC Systems: How They Work & Why They're Worth It

Variable speed HVAC technology has transformed home comfort in Southern California, and if you've been running an older single-stage system through Inland Empire summers, you're leaving real money and comfort on the table.

In this guide, Burgeson's Heating, A/C, Electrical, Solar & Plumbing breaks down exactly how variable speed systems work, how they compare to traditional equipment, and whether upgrading makes sense for your home in Redlands, Riverside, or anywhere across our service area.

[fa icon="clock-o"] 8/10/26, 4:55 PM [fa icon="user"] Your Advisor [fa icon="folder-open'] HVAC, Air Quality, HVAC Maintenance, HVAC Services

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