Monday, October 21st, 2024
When it comes to staying comfortable during the winter months, preparation is essential. A bit of early maintenance can go a long way toward preventing costly heating issues once the temperatures drop. Now is the perfect time to make sure your heating system is ready to go. Below, we’ll show you the best ways to avoid heating problems before winter and having to call for heating repair in Burlington, VT.
Monday, October 7th, 2024
Winter is just around the corner, and fall is the perfect time to focus on your heating system and ensure it’s ready to handle the cold months ahead. Making this month “Heating Maintenance Month” could save you from headaches and high energy bills when you need your heater most. If you haven’t scheduled your annual heating maintenance with a reliable heating contractor in Plattsburgh, NY, now is the time to do so!
Monday, October 10th, 2022
We always stress with our customers to arrange for heater maintenance in Essex, VT during the fall. This isn’t just because we want your business (although we definitely appreciate it). We know the value of regular heating maintenance and the numerous benefits and savings it brings. We’re not the only people! The US Department of Energy’s ENERGY STAR program also recommends routine maintenance for both heaters and air conditioners.
If you want more specifics, below we’ve listed the top six reasons never to miss heating maintenance:
Monday, March 14th, 2022
We often remind customers who have natural gas furnaces that these systems aren’t “dangerous.” It’s true that gas furnaces can develop safety hazards, but this is also true of many different home appliances. With the right maintenance for your furnace, as well as calling for prompt furnace repair in Plattsburgh, NY whenever necessary, you can expect your gas furnace to safely serve you and your family for many years.
To help explain how your furnace operates safely, as well as how to tell when something may be wrong, we’re going to look at several key safety features built into gas furnaces.
Monday, November 25th, 2019
When heating season starts (a.k.a. “winter”), your home’s furnace will get down to steady work. That means you’ll have the semi-regular job of keeping an eye on it. This isn’t an intense job, only a reminder to keep your senses open to any of the signs the furnace is in trouble—and to remember to change the furnace filter on a regular schedule.
But what is that schedule? You may often hear advice to “change the furnace filter regularly” through the winter, but instead of a definite schedule you’re given a range of months. Which one is right? Is there a solid answer for how often to change the filter?
Monday, April 29th, 2019
It’s a nice feeling knowing you won’t need to turn your furnace back on for several months—it means the warm weather and summer have arrived. You’re coming closer to the day when you’ll turn off your home’s furnace and leave it off.
But should you do more than just turn the furnace off? What about shutting it down entirely for the season? We’ll take a look at whether this is a good idea or not.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Furnaces are found in more homes than any other type of central heating system. Ironically, they’re also not well understood by the average homeowner, and that’s probably because they are so common; they’re easy to take for granted.
You don’t need to be a furnace expert to have a good working furnace—that’s why you have professionals like us to help with any furnace service or other heater repair in Burlington, VT you may require. In fact, only professionals with licenses to work on gas-powered heaters should ever handle service on a furnace.
But extra knowledge is always helpful, and homeowners often have questions about the furnace. Below are two of the most urgent people have—plus a bonus one that pops up as well.
Monday, October 1st, 2018
The recent rains should serve as a strong reminder: it’s definitely fall, and we’re on the road to winter. Air conditioners will soon turn off for the rest of the year and furnaces and boilers will fire up (or heat pumps switch over to heating mode).
Now, before that happens, ask yourself if your heating system needs work. Can you trust it to make it through another tough winter season?
Monday, January 22nd, 2018
The middle of the winter is the point when you may have concerns about the performance of your home’s furnace. It’s wise to be on the lookout for potential problems. It’s not only the coldest time of the year, but the furnace has done a half season of work and has another half ahead of it.
There are a number of reasons why you may need to have professionals give your furnace a look and make fixes and adjustments in mid-winter. Schedule your heater service in Burlington, VT or the surrounding areas to ensure you don’t have a furnace that fails for any of the following reasons:
Monday, October 2nd, 2017
We aren’t quite at the true heating season yet—the time of the year when home heaters turn on to provide warmth. Temperatures are still hovering in the cool-to-warm region. But it’s October, which means fall is here and just over the ridge is winter. If you use a boiler system to heat up your house in winter, you want to ensure that it’s in the best shape possible before the cold weather hits. You can do this by arranging for a heating tune-up and inspection through one of our preventative maintenance comfort plans.
But today we want to focus on what happens once your boiler actually gets to work—especially if you end up putting it to work before it has maintenance. We urge you to avoid this situation, but it can still happen. If it does (and even if you did have routine maintenance this year) look out for some of these early indications that you need to call us for boiler repair in Burlington, VT. The sooner you have the trouble fixed, the less expensive it is likely to be and the less long-term damage it will do to the boiler.
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