The cold winter weather has arrived. But we can anticipate much colder in the first months of the New Year. When the outdoor temperatures drop below freezing, you’re HVAC system will undergo an immense amount of stress to provide your family with the warmth it absolutely requires. This leads to the Big Winter Heating Question: Is your HVAC system ready for freezing weather?
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Freezing Weather Ahead: Is Your HVAC System Maintained and Ready?
Monday, December 26th, 20164 Ways You Might Compromise Your Furnace This Winter
Monday, October 31st, 2016If you’ve enjoyed steady warmth and reliable performance from your gas furnace during the previous winters, you may start to think that the system is in excellent shape and that won’t change. But there are ways you can compromise your furnace through neglect and other simple mistakes—and they can lead to a broken-down heater or even one that’s developing safety hazards. We’re going to examine 4 ways that you might compromise your furnace this coming winter.
Sign Up for Our Maintenance Program This Fall!
Monday, October 17th, 2016
Now that it’s October, we can expect the weather to begin to cool down. The true winter weather is still a ways off, but now is the time to start getting ready for its arrival. There are many winter preparation tasks you can do around the house (such as putting in weather stripping), but perhaps the most important is to schedule professional maintenance for your furnace or other home heating system.
The simplest way to manage professional maintenance is to sign up for our Ultimate Service Agreement (USA). This takes care of both your heating and air conditioning maintenance during the year. When you sign up now, you’ll have the maintenance inspection and tune-up for your heater done in plenty of time for winter.
Some Checks to Make on Your Furnace During the Winter
Friday, December 18th, 2015We want to open this blog by emphasizing that only trained professionals should handle furnace repairs. Although we’ve provided a list of tips below for ways to check that your furnace is operating as it should, you should never attempt to diagnose a problem or perform a maintenance task (other than changing or replacing the filter) on your own. If you suspect that your furnace has a fault or it’s running inefficiently, call our service technicians. We’re here to serve you seven days a week.
The Importance of Having Your Furnace’s Heat Exchanger Checked
Monday, November 23rd, 2015We emphasize scheduling fall heating maintenance for a number of excellent reasons: not only does this help your heater achieve the longest lifespan possible while working at its highest energy efficiency, but it also keeps it running safely. This is especially crucial if you use a gas-powered furnace, as many homes do. Although gas furnaces are not immediately “dangerous” appliances, they can pose hazards from carbon monoxide if they don’t receive regular inspections and tune-ups.
The key component of a gas furnace that requires a professional inspection each fall is the heat exchanger.
Some Important Gas Furnace Safety Tips for Winter
Monday, November 9th, 2015The majority of homes in the U.S. use natural gas furnaces to supply them with warmth through the winter. Not only is natural gas a less expensive fuel source than electricity, oil, or propane, but a gas furnace can achieve extremely high levels of heat output. A well-maintained furnace can keep back the chill of even the coldest days.
How to Get the Most from Your HVAC System This Coming Winter
Monday, October 26th, 2015Fall is the time of year to start preparing your home for the cold weather that will soon arrive. You can’t simply trust that your heater and its ventilation system will do the job they are supposed to without some assistance, both from you and from professionals. Below are a few steps you can take to see that your HVAC system will perform at top level during the coming winter season:
Benefits of a Maintenance Session at the End of Heating Season
Wednesday, April 9th, 2014The heating season is coming to a close and with it comes a reduced need to keep your heater running every day. As temperatures warm up, homeowners will turn their attention towards air conditioning systems, especially in the Central Valley where summers get incredibly hot. In Madera, the heating system technicians at Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning also offer maintenance service: a sort of tune-up for your heater that addresses little issues such as dust build-up and loose bolts. The benefits of maintaining your heater at the end of heating season cannot be overestimated.
Here in Madera, heating services are provided by Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning, and we can handle a maintenance session with professionalism and pride. Call us today to make an appointment!
In the first case, it’s an easy time to remember. Many homeowners engage in spring cleaning every year at about this time, and you can add a maintenance session for your heater to the list to things to do. That helps you get a jump on any dust or debris that have built up over the winter, as well as addressing any little issues that you didn’t have time to deal with when the heater was running every day.
Along those lines, spring time gives you maximum flexibility. In the winter, you’re likely running your heater every day or thereabouts, which leaves precious little time to deal with anything but a major problem. In the spring, you don’t need your heater as often, and can set a schedule for a maintenance session that works best for you, instead of scrambling around during an emergency.
Perhaps most importantly, a maintenance session now ensures that your heater will be ready to go next season, eliminating potential worry and keeping your furnace in good shape. Dust and dirt, for example, can clog the burners and increase friction on moving parts. That might not be a big problem now, but it definitely could create one if it’s left unaddressed. An ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure as they say, and the benefits of a maintenance session at the end of heating session will pay dividends in the long term.
Call Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning for professional heating system maintenance in the Madera, CA area.
Why Refrigerant is Important to Your Heat Pump Efficiency and Performance
Monday, November 4th, 2013Heating maintenance in Fresno often means tending to heat pumps as well as centralized air furnaces. A heat pump works extremely well in places with winters like here in the Central Valley, and the Fresno area features many heat pumps working to keep homes comfortable. Refrigerant plays a huge part in a heat pump’s ability to perform. When it leaks, you need to contact a qualified technician to address the problem immediately. Why? Here’s an overview of why refrigerant is important to your heat pump efficiency and performance.
Heat pumps use refrigerant in a closed loop to alternately warm and cool your home. In the summer, the refrigerant gas enters a compressor (on the outside of the building), which subjects it to a great deal of pressure and heat. The compressor coils then bleed off the heat into the surrounding air, and the refrigerant – now a liquid, though still under a great deal of pressure – moves inside the building to a waiting expansion valve. That releases a set amount of the liquid into evaporator coils, which turn the refrigerant back into a gas and pull heat from the surrounding air in the process. A blower then moves the air into your home to cool it. In the winter, that process is reversed. The inside coils act as compressors to release heat into your home, while the outside coils act as evaporators to cool the air.
When a leak springs up in that system, it throws the entire process out of balance. The air can’t be cooled as efficiently – no matter what season it is – and the heat pump must work harder to do its job. Frost forms on the evaporator coils, further restricting the process and increasing strain on the system as a whole. Not only will it cost you more to operate the heat pump, but it could lead to a more significant breakdown later on down the line.
For any problems with heating maintenance in Fresno, Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning is on the case. We know why refrigerant is important to your heat pump efficiency and performance, and can seal the leak before returning your refrigerant to its prescribed levels. Pick up the phone and schedule an appointment today.
Heating Tip: How Winter Heating Maintenance Can Be Beneficial
Monday, January 7th, 2013While California’s Central Valley isn’t known for its cold temperatures, if you live here you know that it can get pretty chilly during the winter. When that happens, you need a heating system that you can rely on. At Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning, we’re proud to offer comprehensive heating services in Fresno. One of the best ways to make sure that your heating system works when you need it is get regular, professional heating maintenance. There are a number of benefits to regular maintenance which we are going to explore here. If you have any questions about heating maintenance or if you’d like to schedule heating maintenance, then contact Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning today.
Benefits of Regular Heating Maintenance in Fresno
There are a number of very attractive benefits to regular heating maintenance in Fresno. Here are just a few of them.
- Reduced repairs – Perhaps one of the most attractive benefits to regular maintenance is the potential to reduce the need for costly heating repairs. At Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning, we’ve responded to countless calls for heating repair in Fresno. Many of them were the result of a small problem that could have been fixed if the heating system had been given regular maintenance. When you have a professional heating technician inspecting your equipment, they can detect those small things and fix them before they become larger, more expensive repairs.
- Increased efficiency – Another benefit of regular heating maintenance is that it might also be able to increase the efficiency of your system. Over time, your heater will develop small problems that can slow it down or cause it to have to work harder to heat your home. With regular maintenance from Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning, our technician will remove and repair those issues which will allow your system to perform better.
- Extended life – Often, the life of a heating system is cut short because a small problem turned into a major one that caused a permanent failure of the system. During regular maintenance visits, your heating technician will repair those problems before they do catastrophic damage to your system.
Heating Maintenance in Fresno for All Heating Systems
No matter what kind of heating system you have, getting regular maintenance for it is probably a good idea. Just like regular oil changes and tune-ups are good for your car, the same is true for your heater. Call Purl’s Sheet Metal & Air Conditioning today to talk with one of our friendly heating technicians and to schedule a service visit!