Installing a new furnace can be expensive and time-consuming. Scheduling a furnace installation in King George, VA, in the middle of winter is especially burdensome. To ensure you remain comfortable during brutal winters, follow these simple but important tips to help you preserve your furnace:
Schedule Furnace Maintenance
We cannot emphasize enough how important it is for you to schedule professional maintenance services for your furnace at least once per year. Some people feel tempted to ignore the need to schedule maintenance because nothing appears to be overtly wrong with their system and they wish to save some money.
Forgoing regular maintenance is extremely shortsighted, as not all furnace problems manifest themselves clearly and immediately. Some may be minor if caught in the early stages but may become catastrophic later, and these are precisely the sorts of problems maintenance service technicians are best equipped to detect. Forgetting about maintenance is tantamount to cutting the life of your furnace short.
Change Your Furnace’s Filters
If you don’t change the filters in your furnace at least once every three months, debris will accumulate and inhibit the flow of air through your system. This will trigger a cascade of effects that will diminish the efficiency of your system and force it to work harder to compensate. When your system works harder, this will put it under greater strain and shorten its lifespan.
Upgrade Your Insulation
When your home is well-insulated, warm or cool air is less likely to leak out of your walls or ductwork. As a result, your heating system will need to consume less energy to reach its temperature target and won’t need to work as hard.
Before the cold weather sets in, you should have your system inspected. Call Custom/Design Heating & Air Conditioning to ask for our heating services in King George, VA, today. We’re happy to help!
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