Every winter, your furnace runs a marathon, the likes of which no human could endure. Once it goes on, it tends to stay on, taking the occasional break for a warm day or even a warm spell. Other than that, it’s business as usual. As the heating season starts winding down, no doubt a couple…
Common Home Furnace Myths
Keeping your home and family toasty while keeping heating costs down can be a challenge during a typical DFW area winter. Fortunately, there are several creative ways to beat the odds, like sealing up drafty windows and running ceiling fans in reverse. But there’s more furnace advice “out there” you should absolutely ignore. Here are…
“Should I Replace My Furnace??”
Quick, and no peeking: when did you purchase your furnace? Of, if you inherited it from the previous owners, when did they purchase it? No, this is not a trivia quiz. It’s a serious question to help you determine if its’ time to replace your furnace…or least consider the possibility. Since we’ve already brought up…
Why Isn’t My Furnace Working?
Before you call out the national guard to restore heat in your home, why not try a few often-successful DIY steps first. You’ll get your heat back faster that way, and you’ll save some money. Clean or Replace the Filter – Nothing gums up the works like a clogged, dirty filter. In fact, don’t wait…
What You Should Know About Your Gas Furnace
There’s a furnace in your house. It keeps you warm. From time to time it needs maintenance. When it’s working well, you’re warm and comfortable from one room to the next. When it’s not up to par, you notice a lack of heat, or none at all. That’s about as much as the average person…
How to Choose a New Furnace
Here’s the short answer: “Don’t even try unless you’re an HVAC professional in your own right.” You see, today there are numerous makes and models of home furnaces with similar options and comparable quality. Nine times out of ten, you can’t go wrong. Where you can go wrong is hiring the wrong heating and cooling…
How to Prevent Home Heating Problems
Keeping your home heating system is a team effort – us and you working together for the good of your home and family. Home heating care begins with annual preventive maintenance, a specialty of the house here at Optimum Air. It’s a once-a-year opportunity to ensure your furnace is operating as efficiently and safely as…
How to Prevent Home Heat Loss
Let’s say you’re as faithful as can be when it comes to keeping your heating system in sound working order. You have it inspected by a professional once a year, every few years you have your ducts cleaned, and you have multiple zones and programmable thermostats so your heating system isn’t over-worked throughout the winter.…
How to Prevent Problems with Your Furnace
Picture the last time you bought a new car…the brand-new kind. It’s like an instant love affair, right? It’s perfect, it’s you all over, you think it’s always going to look and smell new, you’ll be the envy of every passerby and, by golly, you deserve to treat yourself to something special. It’s hard to…
How to Choose the Right Space Heater
What to do when you want a little extra heat while you sleep or watch TV, but don’t want to turn up the thermostat? Or, how about when you feel like using your 3-season room in the 4th season but there’s no central heat? Simple: you use a space heater. When used properly, they can…