When you’re heat isn’t working it can be cold. And maybe when it’s cold people’s brains don’t work as well. Heat repair technicians often get called for emergency repairs only for the homeowners to find that they had an embarrassing oversight when it comes to their troubleshooting skills. Here are four of the most embarrassing and surprisingly common mistakes discovered by a heat technician:
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- The thermostat isn’t set to “Heat”, or it’s not set high enough compared to the indoor temperature to trigger the heat to kick on.
- The furnace’s filter is so very, very clogged that the furnace shuts down. Homeowners should regularly change their air filter; learn more.
- The furnace has accidentally been shut off. All furnaces have a shut off switch that looks like a light switch on their outside. Sometimes homeowners have mistakenly flipped this switch without knowing its effect.
- Your furnace is out of fuel. No fuel, no heat; and yet people sometimes don’t realize they’ve run out until the heat technician shows up at their door, which reminds me of a line from a movie called Sling Blade.
Just keep these oversights in mind in case you ever have to call for emergency heat repairs. You can save yourself a lot of money, and embarrassment, by trying a few heat tricks before picking up the phone.
