Every year during the summer when it’s 100° outside, I tell my wife that I can’t wait until the winter months are here.
I look forward to the cold air and the dropping temperatures.
It seems like I forget about that when the cold air is actually here. I don’t really like it when things are cold, but I don’t like the Heat either. The weather is starting to get cold again now and I am reminded that it is time to contact the local heating company for a regularly scheduled maintenance tune-up. It’s really important to have a regularly scheduled maintenance tune-up performed on your furnace or heat pump. Regularly scheduled maintenance by a trained and trusted professional can keep your machine working for many years. Having a tune-up can also increase the machine’s longevity and energy efficiency. Last year we had a tune-up on the furnace before the winter season started and we didn’t have a single problem with the furnace throughout the whole season. That could be a coincidence or it could be due to the tune-up, but I’m going to have another tune-up performed this year because it worked so well. The full service heating tune up cost is minimal compared to the average price of a furnace repair. One of my coworkers had to replace the furnace last year and she missed a day of work. The cost to replace the furnace was nearly 10 times the amount of money that I have to pay each year for my heating bills. If I can keep the old machine working and in good shape, then I am already saving money.