888.630.9224Right now we’re in the middle of a stretch of extremely cold weather in our area. Step outside your front door and you instantly want to head back where you came from! In this cold weather, it’s important for you to keep a few things in mind about your heating system:
1) To maintain a comfortable temperature within your house, you might want to consider keeping your thermostat at one temperature during the coldest days & nights. If you turn down the temperature when you leave your house or go to bed, it will take much longer than normal to bring it up to a comfortable level when you return.
2) If you have a 90% or 95% efficiency gas furnace, check those condensate lines! Sometimes they can freeze up, causing minor flooding or your furnace to shut off entirely. You can thaw any frozen lines simply with a hair dryer. If you want any help, give us a call at 253-630-9224 and we can walk you through it over the phone.
3) Make sure all of the registers are open in your house. It’s a good idea in this extreme cold to have them open even in rooms you don’t use so that the house heats evenly and you prevent the possibility of mold growing in a damp room.
4) Do you have fresh batteries in your thermostat? Sometimes when people don’t have any heat, it’s a simple matter of changing the batteries in their thermostat.
Bonus Tip: If you celebrate Christmas and have a fresh Christmas tree, you will want to make sure that you close any registers next to the tree. If you have warm air blowing on the tree from an open register, it can dry it out and become a fire hazard.
