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If you’re a homeowner, you soon find there are a few services and companies you’ll have to use from time to time. For instance, you’ll need a professional plumber. You might need someone to clean your gutters or replace some of your roof shingles if a storm blows them away.
You will certainly need an HVAC company if you live in the same house for a decent amount of time. Complete Comfort Heating Air Plumbing would be an example. Let’s talk about a few of the best things a reliable HVAC company can do when they visit your home.
You Might Need Them if Your Furnace Doesn’t Work Very Well
If you live in a region that gets pretty cold in the winter, you will need a furnace that heats the whole house as evenly and effectively as possible. That means you do not want to feel comfortable on the first floor but freezing on the second floor, even when the furnace is on full blast.
An excellent HVAC company can take a look at your furnace if it stops working or if it doesn’t heat the whole house evenly. Say that you have a couple of bedrooms up on the second floor. You’ll feel much more comfortable if your HVAC company makes some adjustments so that spending time up there during the winter doesn’t require you to hide under the blankets or put on three sweaters and a parka.
You Can Get Them to Fix Your Air Conditioner as Well
You might also ask your HVAC company to stop by during the summer if you have an air conditioner that doesn’t work as well as it once did. Maybe you have a central air unit, and it keeps some parts of the house cool, but other parts remain sweltering.
Much like having a defective furnace, having an air conditioner that’s not pulling its weight can be tough to deal with on the hottest days. You can talk to your HVAC repair company and ask them if you need a new unit. Maybe they will recommend getting an entirely new one, but perhaps they can make some adjustments that won’t be so costly.
Once the new unit is installed or the current one is fixed, you should feel much better. You won’t have to strip down to your underwear just to feel some relief and get some sleep on nights in July or August.
They Can Do a Home Energy Audit
You can also request that your HVAC company do a home energy audit. This is a good thing to do at any time, but if you’ve just moved into a new home, that is probably the ideal moment.
If you have never had a home energy audit done, it means the HVAC company will look at the places in your home from which heat escapes in the winter and cool air escapes in the summer. Those places might be cracks under doors or around windows that don’t fit in their frames as well as they once did.
You might also find there’s a lot of heat or cool air escaping from your basement or root cellar. The way to fix it is usually for the HVAC company to spray foam in all of the places from which air escapes.
Once they’re done doing that, your air conditioner and furnace will not need to work as hard to keep your house at the temperature that you like it when the weather in your area is the most punishing. Your house will be more energy-efficient. That’s better for the environment, and your energy bills should be lower as well.
Doing an energy assessment will cost money, but you will make up those costs in the years to come when each energy bill is much lower than what you were paying before.
They Can Install a New Smart Thermostat
An HVAC company can also install a new smart thermostat for you. These thermostats are remarkable and come with all kinds of features you will enjoy learning about and using.
You can get one that connects to an app on your smartphone. You can use the app to change the temperature in your house if you don’t feel like going downstairs to use the thermostat at night when you’re going to bed.
You can change the temperature with your phone if you’re at work, and you don’t need the furnace or AC to work as hard to keep the house warm or cool. You can change the temperature with your phone if you’re on vacation, even if you’re thousands of miles away.
You can also set the thermostat so that different parts of the house retain different temperatures. That’s ideal for a family with some members who want it cooler while others want it warmer.
They Can Install a New Water Heater
You might also ask your HVAC company to install a new water heater if your current one is not doing the job as well as you’d like. You can get a new one with a tank, or you might decide to go tankless. Many families and individuals like tankless water heaters at this point. They do not take up as much space, and they will save you money on your water bills, similar to the energy audit.
With a new water heater, whether you go tankless or not, you should be able to get hot water much faster for showers and baths. You can take a relaxing shower, and another family member can go right after you, and they will still have some hot water left over. That’s great news for families that like to take morning showers before everyone leaves for school or work.
You will probably have your HVAC company visit many times over the years if you live in the same house. You might even become friends some of the employees who come to your home multiple times.