Take Care of Furnace Maintenance This Winter
Winters in Cache Valley are pretty unpredictable, but one thing that comes up a lot is the regular inversion. When the weather gets cold, it traps pollution in the lower parts of the valley leading to some very bad air days. This, on top of the regular build-up of dirt and dust can contaminate your furnace, causing it to spread bad air throughout your house. This is why regular furnace maintenance is so important.
3 Suggestions For Improving Your Furnace’s Performance
1. Medical Grade Air Filter
The air filter is one of the most important first steps to keeping your furnace clean. As long as you keep to the schedule of changing it regularly, the filter will stop a lot of the dust and pollution from flowing through your furnace to the rest of your house. If you have particularly strong allergies, asthma, or a compromised immune system however, even that might not be enough.
If you still have problems despite doing everything you need to with your filter, you might consider getting a medical grade filter. These filters are specially designed to catch things that regular air filters won’t in order to provide hospitals with the cleanest air possible for their patients. It’s more expensive than regular air filters, but it can make a big difference for people who really suffer when the air gets bad. Such as the elderly, or people with severe allergy problems.
Filters at this level will also prolong the life of the HVAC more by reducing the amount of particles that can wear on the furnace’s moving parts. For even better results, you might consider professional air duct cleaning prior to installing them, just to make sure there’s nothing inside your ducts to create problems.
2. A Whole House Humidifier
Have you ever felt like your throat was really dry and scratchy, especially during winter? Utah’s not know for high humidity, and when it gets cold, that humidity goes down even further. Dry air will dry up the moisture in your throat, causing all sorts of issues. It exacerbates allergies and asthma, and dries out the soft palate while sleeping, which causes snoring. It can also cause wooden floors to shrink and crack.
There are multiple kinds of whole house humidifiers that can be added to your HVAC system, allowing you to put that humidity back into the air inside our house. Portable humidifiers will fill a small area with water, which the furnace will quickly burn off, but whole house humidifiers will instead spread it throughout the home, so it lasts longer. It requires less effort and can be adjusted throughout the year as needed.
3. Our Maintenance Service Program
Your furnace is a complex machine with a lot of moving parts that wear out over time. The difference between a quick fix and expensive repairs is often how soon you catch that something is wrong. If you don’t know machines, it can be hard to tell when something is going wrong. That’s why we recommend our maintenance service program.
We take the guesswork out of maintenance by inspecting your furnace regularly to offer preventative maintenance. Our service plan also comes with a 20% discount on repairs, so even if something does break down, it won’t cost you quite so much. You don’t have to worry about things with our priority service program.
Call Today
If your furnace doesn’t seem to be working as well as it should, it might need some maintenance. It can be hard to spot problems, though, as the wear and tear happens slowly enough that you miss it. You’ll know the difference immediately after it’s fixed, though. If it’s been a while since you checked your furnace out, you should consider giving us a call today. We’ll get it fixed up so your furnace runs at its best for the winter.
