Happy New Year! If you haven’t already, now is the time when you’ll notice if there are problems with your heating system. If you can hear your furnace up and running, that’s a good sign, right? Absolutely! But what if your furnace is running, and you are getting some heat, but not in all parts of your home? Cold spots in your house in January can be utterly miserable.
If some rooms in your home are perfectly cozy and others never quite lose their chill, what’s going on with your heating system? Uneven heating throughout a house can be caused by a variety of things, some of which you can resolve all by yourself. Here’s what you need to know.
Most homes in our area are powered by electricity. With that, most of those homes have heating systems that are also powered by electricity. As the power grid gets upgraded and more sustainable sources of energy start pouring in, we’re likely to see our electric heating systems increase in popularity over the coming years. This is a good thing!
Let us first start off this blog post with a PSA: a booming furnace is not normal and it should be checked out by a professional. Just because this noise is the focus of this blog post does not mean that it should be ignored, or that you should feel better if your furnace is booming. A booming furnace can quickly become a health and safety hazard, as well as a problem with efficiency, so make sure you have a professional HVAC technician on hand to help you out.
People around here revel in the “off the grid” type of feeling that you get when you fix everything yourself and don’t need help. While we’d love to just repair everyone’s heaters and other HVAC equipment year after year, unfortunately, that’s not the most cost-effective method of staying comfortable. Sometimes, and bear with us, a replacement is actually going to save you more money than investing in repairs.
Heater warranties are worth their weight in gold these days. We’re not kidding, they can be worth thousands of dollars whenever you run into an issue, and they are the object of envy for any homeowner that doesn’t have one. Think about it—what’s better than a service like a manufacturer’s warranty that will pay for any repairs or services within a specific time-frame?
It’s furnace season! While many homeowners utilize electric heating solutions, the vast majority of homes in the United States use natural-gas powered furnaces. This is good news, since gas-burning furnaces are becoming increasingly efficient and effective at keeping homes comfortable during the coldest of winters.
It’s that time of year again. Air conditioning season has come to a close and it’s time for heating season. But what exactly does that mean for you?
Furnace trouble isn’t unique to our area. In fact, furnaces are some of the most widely used heaters in the country, so we’re pretty sure that a good portion of homeowners have had to deal with furnace issues in the past. That being said, there are two kinds of furnace owners we’d like to talk about: those who take measures to help their furnaces and those who don’t.
We all know what cold spots are, but what many homeowners mistakenly believe is that they’re normal. Cold spots in your home don’t have to be normal, and in theory, your heater should be able to heat every room in your home equally, no matter how cold it is outside. You might need to seal a drafty window, or perhaps you’ve got failing ductwork, but either way, there is a solution.
