3 Ways Regular Furnace Maintenance Prevents Winter Breakdowns

When it comes to the heating and cooling systems in your home, there are few things more irritating and as detrimental to your overall comfort as having your furnace completely break down in the middle of winter. When temperatures outside begin to plummet, you depend on your home’s furnace to keep you warm, but sometimes, it needs a little bit of help to make sure that it can do its job both effectively and efficiently. Here at Eric Smock Heating & Air Conditioning, we want to be able to do everything in our power to make sure you are comfortable in your home, which is why our team of skilled Frederick heating contractors have provided you with this short list of three ways that regular furnace maintenance can help you avoid a breakdown in the middle of winter.

Increase Energy Efficiency

Just like your car, your home’s furnace is a complex piece of machinery that requires regular service to help keep it running its best. Just like having a tune up for your car can improve its gas mileage, having regular maintenance performed on your furnace can help to improve your furnace’s overall energy efficiency. Regular furnace maintenance will ensure that you get more energy for every dollar that you spend on fuel, and reduce your overall energy consumption costs. Your heating bills normally account for almost 25% of your total energy costs during the winter, and by improving the efficiency at which your unit operates, you could find yourself with a good deal of extra money in your pocket at the end of the month.

Prevent Need For Repairs & Improve System Longevity

Would you ever take your car on a cross country road trip without taking it in for a tune up beforehand? We didn’t think so. It can be tough to put a wager on how far your car would make it before you started noticing problems, but it is safe to assume that it wouldn’t make it nearly as far as it would have if you had invested in getting it the care it needed before you ever left. Your furnace operates much in the same way, except your furnace’s cross-country road trip comes up every winter when it goes into almost continuous use. Getting regular maintenance performed on your furnace can help you catch any small problems early on before they have a chance to either develop into something more serious, or cause serious damage to other the other components of your furnace. This will help you extend the lifespan of your furnace by a great deal while also helping to reduce the amount of future repairs you will have to invest in.

Keep Your Warranty Intact

While not necessarily associated with preventing a breakdown in itself, keeping your warrant intact is a very important thing if something out of your control every happens and you find yourself in need of a new furnace. Most furnaces have a stipulation in the warrant saying that they need to be professionally serviced at least once per year for the warranty to remain valid. No one wants to be put in the situation where something bad happens to their home’s furnace and they have to find out the hard way that their warranty has actually been invalid for several years now because they overlooked the annual maintenance requirement.