Heating and Air Conditioning Preventative Maintenance Saves Energy/ Money

Annual Maintenance/ Clean & Check/ Tune-up

Most people don’t realize that their furnace runs as much as 3,000 hours per year. To put that in some perspective if you were driving a car the same amount of hours at 60 miles an hour you would travel 180,000 miles in a single year. Given that information you wouldn’t go without a tune-up right? You wouldn’t and neither should your heating and cooling system. Yearly preventative maintenance can help reduce utility costs and may help prevent costly repairs in the future.

A recent study conducted by the National Comfort Institute (NCI) found that :

• Adjusting combustion efficiency increased performance by as much as 12%
• Changing the filters increased performance by an average of 7%
• Cleaning coils and burners added 10% to system performance
• Adjusting fan speed added 6% to system efficiency

All of these adjustments can generate up to a 29% increase in system performance.

Making recommended repairs during this visit can also save you money in the long run by avoiding costly emergency calls and valuable time lost from work due to additional repair visits to your home.

If you have not serviced your furnace or heat pump in a while, it’s not too late. Having your system checked and cleaned now will ensure it runs safely and efficiently through this heating season. It may also help avoid costly repairs in the future.