Heating & Furnaces
Your Heating Bill Doubled. Weather, or a Problem?
A heating bill is a diagnostic readout if you know how to read it. How to separate a colder month from a system that…
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Honest heating & furnaces answers from the licensed pros serving Northern Virginia.
Heating & Furnaces
The Thermostat Says 66 and It Is Set to 69
Your heating system is sized for a design temperature, and below it losing a few degrees is expected. How to tell a normal cold…
Heating & Furnaces
The Power Is Out and It Is 22 Degrees
How long the house holds heat, when pipes are actually at risk, what to do with a generator and a space heater, and the…
Heating & Furnaces
The Vent Nobody Checks: Your Water Heater After a New Furnace Goes In
Rust on top of the water heater, a damp basement, a chimney now too big for one appliance. What an orphaned water heater is,…
Heating & Furnaces
The Drain That Shuts Your Furnace Off
A high efficiency furnace makes water every time it runs. When that drain clogs or freezes, the furnace shuts itself off on purpose. How…
Heating & Furnaces
The First Cold Night: Run Your Heat in September and Listen
Twenty minutes of heat on a cool afternoon finds most of what fails in January. The test run, what every sound and smell means,…
Heating & Furnaces
The Cold Season Field Guide: What Breaks When in a Northern Virginia House
A month by month guide to what actually goes wrong in a Northern Virginia house between September and February, what each symptom means, and…
Heating & Furnaces
Furnace Installation Day: What Actually Happens
Start to finish, including the parts that are your job. The measurement visit that decides everything, the venting hours in an older house, and…
Heating & Furnaces
Boiler Service Before Winter: What to Do and What We Check
A maintained boiler outlives two furnaces. The half hour you can do yourself, what a real service visit covers, and what each symptom means,…
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The Room That Has Never Been Comfortable: Zoning, a Ductless Head, or Neither
Three real fixes for the bonus room over the garage, and picking the wrong one is expensive. How to tell a duct problem from…