Heater Tune-up and MaintenanceIs Heating Tune-Up and Maintenance Service Necessary?
Yes, yes, yes – your heating system doesn’t operate at its best when neglected and worn down. Tune-Up is a kind of routine inspection of all HVAC system components. If tech discovers problems during tune up, we will make recommendations for needed repair, maintenance procedure or replacement.
Heating System Tune-Up
- Check Thermostat Operation and Change Batteries if Needed
- Check For Any Gas leaks
- Check for toxic CO (Carbon monoxide) Leakages
- Check Gas Pressure for Proper Readings and Adjust if Needed
- Check Outlet Gas Pressure for Proper Readings and Adjust if Needed
- Check Flame Sensor and Clean if Needed
- Check Ignitor
- Check Inducer Motor and Verify Proper Operation
- Visually Inspect Burner Assembly
- Inspect Heat Exchanger
- Check Condensate Trap on Furnace
- Inspect Furnace Filter
- Check Blower Motor Capacitor
- Check Blower Motor and Wheel
- Test Operating Controls and Safety Features, Adjust as Necessary
- Visual Inspection of Evaporator Coil
- Visual Inspection of Venting
- Visual Inspection of Circuit Board for any Burn Marks and Test for Voltage Drop
- Test Temperature Split between Return Air and Supply Air per Manufacturers Specs
- Visual Inspection of all Electrical Components and Electrical Connections
- Prepare Equipment Condition Report, Explaining Any Potential Problems or Recommended Repairs to Customers
Complete Heater Tune Up & Maintenance
- Check Thermostat Operation and Change Batteries if Needed
- Check For Any Gas leaks
- Check for toxic CO (Carbon monoxide) Leakages
- Check Gas Pressure for Proper Readings and Adjust if Needed
- Check Outlet Gas Pressure for Proper Readings and Adjust if Needed
- Check Flame Sensor and Clean if Needed
- Check Ignitor
- Check Inducer Motor and Verify Proper Operation
- Inspect and Clean Burner Assembly and Clean
- Check and Clean Condensate Trap on Furnace
- Replace Furnace Filter
- Check Blower Motor Capacitor
- Check and Clean Blower Motor and Wheel
- Inspect Heat Exchanger*
- Test Operating Controls and Safety Features, Adjust as Necessary
- Visual Inspection of Evaporator Coil**
- Inspect Smoke Pipe and Vacuum if Needed
- Check burners and Vacuum if Needed
- Visual Inspection of Circuit Board for any Burn Marks and Test for Voltage Drop
- Test Temperature Split between Return Air and Supply Air per Manufacturers Specs
- Visual Inspection of all Electrical Components and Electrical Connections
- Prepare Equipment Condition Report, Explaining Any Potential Problems or Recommended Repairs to Customers
Heating systems are essential part of indoor comfort during Winter. An annual inspection allows service technician to identify dirty coils, burned out contactors, cracked heat exchangers, clogged chimneys, and any other failures before they cause long term damage to your system.
If you ask yourself, “Why Do I need Tune-up?”, here are some of the reasons why:
- Improve operating efficiency, which can reduce your home heating costs
- Identify minor issues to help avoid big and costly failures later
- Enhance the safety of your system and your family by early detecting and addressing gas/carbon monoxide leaks
- Maintain manufacturer warranty/home warranty coverage because lack of maintenance voids a warranty on the unit
Performing regular preventive maintenance is an important step with almost everything you own or use regularly, especially something you depend on as much as your home comfort heating system. An annual heater tune-up ensures your HVAC system is running smoothly, which keeps your home comfortably heated. More importantly, tune-up will diagnose small heater problems before they become larger, costlier issues.
Does you heating system really need a yearly inspection?
There’s no question in getting your heater ready for every winter and tuned up regularly is worth it. Furnace and boiler manufacturers recommend heating tune up as a part of maintaining warranty coverage on replacement parts. In many cases, manufacturers of gas, electric, and oil heating systems require tune-ups. Nevertheless annual furnace maintenance is more than a checkmark to fill on a warranty form. When done regularly, boiler and furnace tune up may reduce fuel consumption over years of use, and prevent malfunctions and breakdowns.
As gas furnaces age, they can become more likely to leak carbon monoxide. Such problems are detected during annual maintenance.
Heating Costs in Philadelphia area
Northeast area is not always the warmest of place during winter. Cold month’s weather puts lots of pressure on our boilers and furnaces.
Catching Carbon Monoxide Issues
Afar from money, one of the most important reasons to maintain your furnace is your well-being. Gas fueled heating systems are substantial birthplaces of carbon monoxide, an odorless, colorless poison. Inhalation can cause dizziness, headaches, and unconsciousness leading to death.
EMCO Tech Heating & Cooling maintenance technicians will always take extra care to check your heater for carbon monoxide leaks, and signs of a cracked heat exchanger.
In the lack of maintenance, these failures are ignored, with at times tragic consequences.
Check out Energy Star Article: A Guide to Energy-Efficient Heating and Cooling.
Choose EMCO Tech for Your Heater Tune-Up
Our technicians will make sure your furnace is working properly. We will help to improve the efficiency of your heater, saving you money, and assisting to avoid larger problems. Contact us today for your tune up.
