Schedule a Tune-Up for Your HVAC System This Spring

When spring rolls around, homeowners begin to start thinking about spring cleaning, yard work and household maintenance.

While cleaning and prepping your yard for enjoyment are important household tasks, maintenance is essential to the health of a home and specifically its HVAC components.

Arranging maintenance appointments with a reputable and professional HVAC company like Enhanced Heating & Air Conditioning is important to maintaining the efficiency and reliability of your HVAC components.

After a long winter spent working hard to keep a house warm, your furnace needs to be checked out to ensure it’s ready for use in the fall or if a cold snap occurs.

Additionally, your air conditioner needs to be properly inspected for a number of things in order to get it ready for use in the spring and summer months. If not properly cleaned and repaired when necessary, your air conditioner will not run as efficiently as possible and could potentially break down when you need it most.

Residential HVAC Safety

Your home furnace, air conditioner, water heater and any other residential HVAC components are typically very safe; however, if not properly maintained, there are elements that can be dangerous.

Furnaces do use flammable fuels such as natural gas, propane, and oil, and if your furnace isn’t operating properly, these fuels can produce carbon monoxide gas.

All HVAC components have wiring associated with them and if it becomes frayed or damaged over time, it can lead to arcing and sparks, which aren’t safe to have around fueled HVAC appliances.

Air conditioners use refrigerant to cool your home, which isn’t safe if released into the air, so ensuring the safety of your air conditioner is important too.

Gas lines, valves, chimneys, flues, and any other connections to HVAC appliances also need to be regularly checked.

Equipment Lifespan

When your household HVAC components are properly maintained, they tend to last longer than ones that don’t receive regular maintenance and repairs.

Simple inspections can catch small problems before they become large problems that are more expensive to fix.

This will also ensure that your equipment will run more efficiently over the course if it’s life, which means your energy bills will be more affordable.

Energy Efficiency

As previously mentioned, properly maintained HVAC equipment will operate more efficiently over time than components that aren’t receiving regular maintenance.

Simple things like changing your furnace filter are easy ways to improve the efficiency of your system with the added bonus of also improving your indoor air quality.

Reliability

When it comes to ensuring the comfort of your family in the summer and winter, there’s no better way than to ensure your air conditioner and furnace have had regular maintenance and repairs.

When it’s extremely cold out, the last thing you need is for your furnace to break down. And when your area is experiencing a heat wave and your air conditioner kicks the bucket, you’ll wish you had scheduled that maintenance appointment months ago.

Regular maintenance can fix problems before they actually become problems and costly headaches.

For more information about your home HVAC system or to schedule a tune-up, contact Enhanced Heating & Air Conditioning today: 302-836-1921.