Homeowners in Lafayette, LA, should provide their furnace with a professional-grade tuneup at least once per year. The fall is the perfect time to do that. Here are a few special benefits of signing up for furnace maintenance in the fall:
Preparation for Winter
Now that autumn has arrived, it’s a good idea to think ahead and prepare your furnace for the winter. This latter season will impose the most rigorous demands on your furnace that it’ll encounter throughout the year. It’s also the period when furnace malfunctions will be the costliest and most disruptive.
Maintenance can uncover latent issues with your furnace, thus allowing you to take action that will prevent it from breaking down during the winter. Even if the trouble with your furnace is too severe for repairs to fix, it still pays to know that you’ll need a replacement. A furnace installation will be expensive and difficult to schedule during the winter, so it’s better to get it out of the way during the fall.
Lower Heating Bills
More generally, tuneups can improve your furnace’s energy efficiency and prevent it from declining further for a good while. By keeping efficiency high, you’ll decrease your heating bills.
On the other hand, since you’ll use your furnace more during the winter, lower efficiency can be especially damaging. The combination of these two things can easily cause your heating bills to skyrocket.
Improved Home Safety
As they work, furnaces generate soot and toxic by-products like carbon monoxide, while their burners and heat exchangers create a great deal of heat. Thus, some danger always exists that fires may ignite in your home or that you may inhale smoke or carbon monoxide.
Furnaces have safety systems that should prevent such events, but these may malfunction. During a tuneup, service technicians can learn whether any of these systems have malfunctioned.
Homeowners in Lafayette, LA, skip or delay furnace tuneups at their own risk. Once you factor in their many clear advantages, the proper course of action should be obvious. Call Desormeaux’s Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc today and ask for our furnace maintenance services.
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