You rely on your furnace to keep you and your family warm and comfortable during the winter months. It is important to give your furnace the Residential Furnace Service and maintenance that it needs to keep performing. It’s important to have your furnace inspected for any type of carbon monoxide leakage from the heat exchanger. It’s also important to have it checked for rust, corrosion and damage. When you have your furnace inspected, they will also check your safety features to keep you and your family safe during operation of your furnace.
If your furnace is not inspected by a residential furnace service, your furnace could continue to operate but could be malfunctioning and becoming a fire or health risk. A furnace can become a fire risk when your firebox cracks. If you operate an oil furnace, a crack could mean your house is filled with an oily soot on all of the surfaces. It could also cause a fire within your furnace because it is no longer a sealed component.
Carbon monoxide poisoning is also a very serious condition that can develop when your furnace is not working properly. This tasteless and odorless gas can poison you and your family. It can make you very ill, and death can possibly occur from the poisoning of this type of gas. A trained HVAC technician can inspect your furnace and use a specialized camera to inspect areas that cannot be seen with the eye and a flashlight. Tiny cracks can begin to develop long before you could possibly see it from the outside of the furnace.
Another reason to have your furnace inspected is if it is more than 8-10 years old. Furnaces get a great deal of work during the colder months. The life expectancy of furnaces is usually 10 years. The energy efficiency of the newer furnaces can dramatically cut your energy costs, and you can recoup the money that you spent on a new furnace rapidly. If you choose a 93% efficient furnace, this means that you’re only losing 7 cents of a dollar going out of your chimney. If you need an inspection of your furnace to keep you and your family safe, Alaskan Heating and Air Conditioning can perform the inspection you need for peace of mind.
