Kalamazoo Furnace Repair for the Approaching Winter
With the promise of snow looming in the near future, it’s more important now than ever to make sure that your heating systems are up to snuff. Without even mentioning the many tolls that an increasingly cold season can place on your furnace and other heating and cooling systems, age and weather conditions will inevitably take their toll on your temperature control. In this month’s blog post, we’ll be discussing signs that your furnace needs repair, and how you can save money on heating when winter hits its peak.
Signs You Need Furnace Repair
Common sense might tell you that a furnace needs repair when, as you might have guessed, it stops working. While this advice is obviously correct, it’s less obvious what a furnace that isn’t working looks like. While a working furnace will always produce heat, there are critical parts of your furnace that may break down without you even knowing it. For instance, you may not be aware of which signs of aging or decline are meaningful, and which are only slight variations on a healthy average.
You may need furnace repair if you’ve noticed any of the following:
- Sudden, unexplainable spiking of utility bills
- Build up of moisture on the windows, walls, or ceilings of your home
- Unfamiliar rattling or banging sounds when your furnace turns is active
- Rusting or other signs of aging on or around your furnace
If your furnace is exhibiting any of these signs, then you may want to give us a call. When it comes to HVAC, an ounce of prevention is often worth a pound of cure.
How to Save Money on Heating in the Winter
Now that you’ve checked to ensure that your furnace is working properly, you might be wondering how to mitigate the cost of using it. Well, like we said before, a little bit of prevention will go a long way. To cut costs on heating your home in the winter, we recommend ensuring that you have proper insulation installed in your home. While this may seem like a big ask, adding insulation to your home can actually be surprisingly simple and cheap. Particularly, if there are parts of your home that aren’t complete yet (such as a basement or attic), installing fiberglass insulation at home can make a years-long, tremendous difference in your heating bill for only $15-$50 and a few hours of your time.
Or, if you’re already properly insulated, there are other ways you can prevent heat loss in your home. When winter comes, consider applying plastic wrap over your windows to prevent warm air from leaking through any cracks in the window frame. Similarly, you can also maintain your home’s heating and air by installing door draft stoppers on doors that lead to the outdoors. If you have a fireplace or wood stove at home, then hopefully it goes without saying that you can heat your home essentially for free by collecting your own firewood.
Are you interested in heating your home and keeping it warm at a low cost? If so, consider contacting our associates at JP Heating & Air Conditioning today for furnace repair and other heating and cooling services.
