Do you need a quick Heater Repair to get you through the cold El Paso winter?
Every year the weather gets cold and we switch on the heater. We all know that signature burnt-dust smell that occurs when you first turn on a heater, especially a common central electric heat system. Boilers may come with a tangy hot water and metal smell, and furnaces often come with their own unique scorchy scent. Around this time, many homeowners schedule a heater check-up to ensure the heat will last reliably all winter when you need it most. But what about the switch-off when weather warms up in the Spring?
The way you shut down your heater can be critical to it’s performance when you start it up next year. Taking good care of your home heater is a a great way to ensure that heat is ready for you every single day of the year that it’s needed – even if fall gets cold early or spring sees one final cold-snap before summer.
Today, we’re here to share a few helpful pointers on how to prepare your heater for the upcoming springtime switch-off.
1. Change the Air Filters
Start with an air filter change. Most air filters need to be changed every three to nine months, and the winter is especially hard on filters because the home is closed so tightly. You need more filtration during the winter to maintain good home air quality, which means using up that winter filter faster than usual. A smart move is to install a new filter around the time you turn off the heater so that your summertime AC starts fresh with a clean filter at the beginning of the warm weather season.
2. Schedule a Switch-Off Cleaning
The next trick is to get your heater, furnace, or boiler cleaned before you pack it away for the year. The state of your heater as the cold weather fades is the state it will sit dormant in during the entire late spring, summer, and early fall. If you don’t want to discover a dirty or sediment-laden heater when you switch on for the first freeze of next fall, then have your heater cleaned as you switch it off this year.
3. Have Your Heater Inspected and Tuned
At the same time as your furnace cleaning, ask the technician to give your heater a complete once-over for performance and component maintenance. As the weather warms up, now is the perfect time to address any maintenance issues that were revealed during winter – but you couldn’t turn the heat off long enough to tend them. Now is the time to take care of repairs, upgrades, and to overall tune-up your heater so it’s in the best possible condition the next time you need to switch on the heating unit.
4. Sweep Out the Vents, Ducts, and Registers
Next, give your home a fresh-air renewal by clearing out your vents, ducts, and registers. These are all parts of your home HVAC system that channel hot, cooled, or outside-temperature air through your home to maintain good air quality. Of course, dust builds up in the ducts and on the vents. Ash from the fireplace, metal particles from inside the heater, and even old pollen spores build up in there, as well.
If you’re thinking about preparing for good summer air quality and ensuring better air quality next winter, have your ducts and vents cleaned when you shut down your heater in the spring.
5. Schedule a Warm-Weather Replacement if Necessary
Finally, now is also the right time to think about heater replacement. If your heater is old and already showing regular performance issues, you may already be considering a new unit. The winter is a bad time for non-emergency heater replacements or repairs because you can’t have your home heat out of commission for too long. But the springtime shut-down is exactly when those repairs or the need for replacement is still on your mind and the heater is finally not needed to keep the family home a healthy temperature.
Does your furnace, boiler, or electric heater need service this spring to prepare for a season of dormancy and another winter of reliable heating? We can help. Contact us today for home heating repair, replacement, and inspection services.
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