Your heating system is critical to your comfort and your well-being. To keep it running this winter, you’ve got to have maintenance done. This will cut down dramatically (by 85%!) on the repairs your heating system would otherwise need, plus cut your utility bills by improving efficiency. It will even help you keep that same system running for many more years, so you can put off replacing it.
As great as all this sounds, there is one other reason for you to have this critical service done as soon as possible, and it is truly the most important reason. Without regular service, a heating system can become a safety risk. Furnace maintenance will keep you and your loved ones safe. Here’s how.
Cleaning
Your heating system is full of all the dust of the past year. (It might even be more than that, if you skipped last year’s maintenance!) This clogs the places that should have good airflow, blankets and insulates the components that create heat and don’t allow it to dissipate, and works its way between moving parts to cause wear and tear and friction.
An HVAC technician’s first step in heating maintenance is to get everything sparkling clean. That dust has got to go! Without it, there will be much less risk of overheating, which is a hazardous problem. It will be possible, when the system is clean, to apply friction-reducing lubricant to moving parts and further reduce the risk of overheating. And your technician can get a good look at all those components now.
Inspecting
If a component is worn or failing, you might not find out until something goes seriously wrong. You might end up without heat in the middle of the night, or worse, have something catch fire. But your technician can spot these problems during maintenance, before they develop into real safety hazards, and replace, repair, or adjust those components that are in need of help.
Furnaces have safety mechanisms, too, which are designed to prevent problems from causing any real risk to you or your home. Different types of heating systems have different components, so yours may or may not have a heat exchanger, which would need to be inspected for cracks. But all furnaces do have limit switches, which shut the system down if overheating occurs, to prevent a fire.
Testing
All furnaces, regardless of energy source, do have some electrical components. This means there’s electrical testing required to make sure these components are properly calibrated and drawing the right amperage of power, and that all wire connections are secure. Gas furnaces also need to have their gas lines and ignition systems tested to make sure you won’t be at risk of gas leaks or carbon monoxide poisoning.
Once you’ve gotten this heating service in Lavallette, NJ, you’ll be able to relax in the comfortable knowledge that you won’t just be warm all winter. You—and the people you love—will be safe, too.
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