Troubleshooting heating problems is enough to drive any sane person to madness. If you don’t work with heaters for a living, you could spend hours or even days trying to troubleshoot a problem that a professional can fix in minutes. For example, do you know what could be wrong with a furnace that is blowing cold air? If you have a gas furnace, you may be able to hold off calling an Industrial Heating Service. Gas furnaces use pilot lights to help produce heat. It’s easy to check the pilot light because you will either see a flame or your won’t. If you don’t, use a heating tool to light it. All you have to do after it is lit is make sure it stays on. A pilot light that keeps going out can indicate a number of problems. Your furnace may have a bad thermocouple. A problem with the flow of gas is also possible. Both are problems best left to professionals to fix.
Furnaces can also become overheated. When they do, cold air may be pumped out instead of heat. Poudre Valley Air or another heating contractor can easily help you with an overheated furnace. In most cases, an overheated furnace is caused by an air filter that hasn’t been cleaned. An Industrial Heating Service can simply change the air filter in order to prevent the overheating issue. Some people try to put off repairs by turning off the furnace when it overheats. They then wait before engaging the furnace again. They figure heating in cycles is better than getting a repair. In reality, people cause more damage this way. The overheating problem isn’t going away. It just does more damage and can eventually cause the heat exchanger of the furnace to go bad. Repairing a heat exchanger is a lot more expensive than changing a dirty air filter.
Simple solutions are what you should concentrate on when you have a furnace problem. So if your furnace is blowing out cold air, check the thermostat. This is one of the first things the tech you will hire will do. A bad thermostat will cause the furnace to blow out cold air even if the thermostat is on.
