{"id":619,"date":"2018-11-26T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:41:40","slug":"heating-repair-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/heating-service\/heating-repair-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Heating Repair Myths You May Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/surprised-woman-with-glasses-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"woman-with-glasses\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/surprised-woman-with-glasses-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/surprised-woman-with-glasses-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/surprised-woman-with-glasses.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We\u2019re now in what we in the HVAC business call \u201cheating season.\u201d It\u2019s when home heaters turn on and work steadily all the way through the early spring\u2014and sometimes longer than that.<\/p>\n<p>As you settle in for the end of the year with your home\u2019s furnace, boiler, heat pump, or other central heating system, we\u2019d like to provide you with some information to dispel common myths about heating repair. Because we live in an era of instantaneous info available through the internet, it\u2019s easy for these fictions about heaters to spread. Once you know the reality, you\u2019ll be able to take the best possible care of your household heater.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>\u201cGas furnaces are dangerous\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Natural gas is common in homes, and the gas furnace is the most popular type of heating system in the country. If these units were dangerous, they wouldn\u2019t be so widespread and would probably have been banned from use decades ago. Although any gas-powered system may develop safety hazards, proper repair and maintenance for a gas furnace keeps the danger to an absolute minimum. Make sure you have any repairs done as soon as possible and you should have little to worry about with your gas furnace.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cRepairs can keep a heater going indefinitely\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Why replace an old heater when you can just continue to repair it? As much as we\u2019d like to have a furnace, boiler, or heat pump that could just run and run thanks to a repair here and there, this isn\u2019t the reality. Once a heating system is over 15 or 20 years old, it can become extremely costly to continue to repair it, and eventually it will come to the point where the heater is either too expensive to keep or it breaks down permanently. Work with your HVAC technician to determine when it\u2019s best to stop the repairs and put in a new heating system.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cMost heating repairs can be done DIY\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Oh no, no, no. First, if you have a natural-gas furnace or boiler, you must under no circumstance attempt to make a repair to it on your own or ask an amateur to do the work. <em>This<\/em> is how you can make a furnace dangerous! In most jurisdictions, it\u2019s illegal for anyone except a licensed professional to work on an appliance hooked to the gas main.<\/p>\n<p>But even for electric heaters, the only \u201crepairs\u201d you can perform effectively are simple tasks like changing the air filter. These are complex devices, and only professionals can handle repairs accurately and quickly.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cMaintenance will prevent all repairs\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><em>Close!<\/em> Regular maintenance is an essential service to have done for your heating system each fall: it catches trouble early, extends equipment life, keeps the warranty valid, and ensures best energy efficiency. It also prevents 85% of repairs the heater may need. That\u2019s not 100% of repairs\u2014but it\u2019s still pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>For any <a href=\"\/service-areas\/grand-blanc-mi-hvac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">heater repair in Grand Blanc, MI <\/a>you need this season, rely on our team.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">First Choice Heating &amp; Cooling serves Fenton, Linden, Holly, and the surrounding areas. If Your Home Had a Voice \u2026 It Would <a href=\"\/contact\/send-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Call First Choice!<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019d like to provide you with some information to dispel common myths about heating repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[105,124,49,50],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heating-service","tag-furnaces","tag-grand-blanc","tag-heating-system-maintenance","tag-heating-system-repair"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstchoiceheat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}