The heart and soul of your furnace is the heat exchanger. That’s because it performs two equally vital functions:

• Getting heated air safely into your living quarters;
• Safely releasing fossil fuel byproducts (soot, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and water vapor) through your chimney.

What do both of the above functions have in common? Right: they both have an impact on the safety of your home and family. So with that much at stake, it makes only logical sense to make sure your heat exchanger is in the best possible shape. Hold that thought: we’ll get back to it in a minute.

Now, let’s have a look at how heat exchangers develop cracks in the first place. The number one cause, by far, is from overheating. And the number one cause of overheating is lack of sufficient airflow.

Which then begs the question: what causes a lack of sufficient airflow? Actually, in most cases, the cause is a dirty or clogged filter. It’s the simplest furnace component of all, the one any home owner can clean or replace, and yet you’d be amazed at the number of cracked heat exchangers we discover every single winter. Almost all of which could have been avoided by simple preventative maintenance.

You see, when a heat exchanger cracks, it can no longer effectively contain the fossil fuel byproducts mentioned earlier, including carbon monoxide. That allows them to escape into your home, and the consequences can be serious, even deadly.

So take it from us at Absolute Air, and start scheduling annual heating system preventative maintenance no less than once a year. With that one small and very affordable step, here’s what you can look forward to:

• Fewer (if any) repairs
• Longer system lifespan
• Added safety
• Cleaner indoor air
• Lower home heating costs

For the professional service you want and the added peace of mind we know you appreciate, contact Absolute Air today.

The heart and soul of your furnace is the heat exchanger.  That’s because it performs two equally vital functions:

• Getting heated air safely into your living quarters;
• Safely releasing fossil fuel byproducts (soot, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and water vapor) through your chimney.

What do both of the above functions have in common?  Right:  they both have an impact on the safety of your home and family.  So with that much at stake, it makes only logical sense to make sure your heat exchanger is in the best possible shape.  Hold that thought:  we’ll get back to it in a minute.

Now, let’s have a look at how heat exchangers develop cracks in the first place.  The number one cause, by far, is from overheating.  And the number one cause of overheating is lack of sufficient airflow.

Which then begs the question:  what causes a lack of sufficient airflow?  Actually, in most cases, the cause is a dirty or clogged filter.  It’s the simplest furnace component of all, the one any home owner can clean or replace, and yet you’d be amazed at the number of cracked heat exchangers we discover every single winter.  Almost all of which could have been avoided by simple preventative maintenance.

You see, when a heat exchanger cracks, it can no longer effectively contain the fossil fuel byproducts mentioned earlier, including carbon monoxide.  That allows them to escape into your home, and the consequences can be serious, even deadly.

So take it from us at Absolute Air, and start scheduling annual heating system preventative maintenance no less than once a year.  With that one small and very affordable step, here’s what you can look forward to:

• Fewer (if any) repairs
• Longer system lifespan
• Added safety
• Cleaner indoor air
• Lower home heating costs

For the professional service you want and the added peace of mind we know you appreciate, contact Absolute Air today.

As human beings, part of our DNA is the gift for complaining. We absolute love it, even if we don’t love what we’re complaining about. Equally important, we love to HEAR ourselves complain to anyone who even pretends to be a rapt audience.

Still, if you find yourself complaining about the same things over and over again, either you’re talking to the wrong people or just aren’t as focused as you should be on fixing the problem.

Take your home heating costs, for example. On average, they were 13% higher last year than the year before, and 10% higher than the 10-year average as reported in March, 2014 by USA Today.

What’s in store for the 2014-15 heating season? While the jury’s still out on that one, why wait for yet another reason to complain when you can start fighting back now. And it all comes down to one thing: if you manage to keep yourself warm, then your whole house will feel warm. And that goes for every member of your family.

• Don’t go barefoot. If your feet are cold, your whole body’s going to fee cold. So wear socks and/or slippers when you’re home but not yet in bed.

• Put on an extra blanket or two. Next to an electric blanket, which aren’t for everyone, the warmest blankets you can cover yourself with are made of wool or down.

• Open your window coverings during the day, and close them at night. Let the sun do its thing to help warm your house up so you won’t need as much heat at night to keep it that way.

• Eat more hot soup. Hot soup raises your body temperature on cold, wintry days.

• Stay active. Just because there’s little if any yard work to tackle this time of year doesn’t mean you can’t find plenty to do indoors. The more active you are, the more energy you’ll generate, and the warmer you’ll feel.

Another great way to keep warm indoors during the winter is to add humidity to the air. Here at Absolute Air, we can install a whole-house humidity control system that will give you year-round humidity control so you’ll feel perfectly comfortable while reducing your heating AND cooling costs. Contact us today for more information or a free new system proposal.

Are you a “good news” or “bad news” first kind of person?

Well, we’re going to make an educated guess and give you bad news first, mostly because you might just find it somewhat reassuring.

Fact:  if your furnace needed to be replaced right now, there’s no way you’d know that without getting an expert opinion from a professional heating company.  As in, unless you’re a qualified HVAC technician in your own right, there’s no way you can make that determination on your own, even if your heating system has completely shut down.  Why?  Because there’s always the chance not only that it can be repaired, but that for the time being, you’re better off repairing than replacing.

And now you have one more very good reason to find one professional heating company you learn to trust, and stick with them.  Especially if they’re demonstrated their willingness and ability to stand by you.

And now for the good news part of our story.  At Absolute Air, we tell our customers like it is.  Which means we’ll give you our best “repair vs. replace” advice, answer all your questions, and then act on your instructions.

Still, you might wonder, “there must be at least some clues that a furnace might need to be replaced?”  And you’d be right.  Here are some of the more common indications that a replacement furnace might be your best course of action:

• Loud popping, banging, and other such noises
• Hot and cold spots throughout your house
• Higher-than-normal heating costs
• Higher than normal thermostat settings to achieve the comfort levels you want
• Burner flame is yellow vs. blue
• Your house is overly dry or dusty
• Your furnace is 15-20 years old, which is its average expected lifespan

If you’re looking for home comfort advice AND service you can trust, contact Absolute Air today or anytime at all. We’re here to make indoor living more comfortable, convenient, and safer for you and every member of your family.

we invite you to contact us today to schedule service for Heating repair in Forney TX .  Same goes if the noises are already there.  Give us a call for  air conditioning  services in crandall TX, we’ll figure out exactly what’s going on, and then give you a guaranteed upfront quote to fix it, and fix it right.