4 Top Furnace Safety Tips

September 20, 2021

The top safety tips for your furnace are more about maintaining it regularly than anything else. Checking on your furnace and having it serviced by a professional are a great start to ensuring that it works well all season. 1. Check Your Furnace Monthly When you check on your furnace, take a vacuum so you can get rid of any lint or dust that accumulates on or inside the furnace. You should also check and replace the filter regularly, especially in the fall and winter months. 2. Good Airflow Is Essential Good airflow is vital if you want your furnace...

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The Importance of HVAC Safety Checks

November 18, 2020

Periodic HVAC safety checks are incredibly important for maintaining a safe and healthy home. The truth in this lies in the fact that all HVAC systems utilize a complex system of potentially hazardous processes, chemicals, gases, and more. A malfunctioning system can therefore pose a number of serious threats, including those listed below. Fire Hazards The potential for fire in an unsafe and unchecked system is very real. Aside from the components that are designed to create heat and/or gas combustion, there are many other components in the typical system that can also generate dangerous heat and fire if not...

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How Do I Know It’s Time to Replace My Furnace?

October 20, 2020

Updated August 2023 You rely on your furnace to keep your home warm and comfortable throughout the winter. As with anything else, there comes a point when it needs to be replaced. How do you know when that point has been reached or even passed? Let’s discuss some signs that it’s time to shop for a new furnace. It’s Over 15 Years Old Furnaces live on average between 15 and 20 years. Once a furnace is older than 15 years, it typically begins to have costly breakdowns. This can be taken as a clear indication you’re better off replacing it....

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Furnace Efficiency Tips

January 7, 2020

Want to help make sure your furnace continues operating smoothly throughout the colder months? These simple pointers will go a long way toward bolstering your heating system’s efficiency. Change Your Furnace Filter Furnace filters are designed to keep dust, hair and other debris from entering your furnace and becoming a fire hazard. After a period of time, though, your furnace filter gets clogged. That means your furnace has to work extra hard to pull in the air it needs to function. Working this hard stresses your heating system and puts it at a higher risk for breakdowns. You may notice...

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5 Signs You Need a Furnace Replacement

November 12, 2019

Nobody wants to have their furnace break down, but in certain cases, there’s nothing you can do about it. The sooner you realize that your furnace is past the point of no return, the sooner you can buy a better replacement and avoid spending money on repairs that constitute a temporary solution. 1. Dust Coming out of Your Vents If you’ve noticed dust and debris coming out of your vents when you turn the heater on, there are several things that might be responsible. Your vents might be in need of a good cleaning, but it could also be your...

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How to Locate Cold Air Leaks in Your Home

October 17, 2019

understands how much energy can be lost in your home because of air leaks. Whether cold air is seeping in from exterior windows or coming in from the walls via an electrical outlet, there are things you can do to remedy the situation. Finding the air leaks is the first step to getting them resolved. Hand Test The skin on your hands is sensitive enough to find larger air leaks in your house. Since these can let in so much cold air, it’s important to find them. On a cold day when your home is being heated, run your hand...

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