Last winter, I noticed that my furnace didn’t seem to be heating as efficiently as it should be, and since it was so cold, we kept turning the temperature control up to try to heat up our home, however even though it was turned up as high as it could go, our home was still cold even though our furnace was running, and it was making lots of noise, but I called our local Heating and Air Conditioning company and described the problem, and they sent out a worker the next afternoon.
- She checked our furnace and said that it seemed to be working fine, however after inspecting our HVAC duct she realized what the problem was.
In our forced-air gas furnace, many of the attachments between ducts were beginning to wear down, meaning that the hot air from our furnace was escaping through the ducts and seeping into our attic and between the walls of our house, resulting in an over-working furnace, and yet still a cold house. This situation was badly inefficient, and all of the work that our furnace was doing was not being put to good use. I had never seen a higher heating bill, however fortunately, after the repair that the Heating and Air Conditioning worker performed on my system, my bill returned to a normal amount the following month. She even made several suggestions to upgrade our home to energy efficient windows, and new seals around doors and windows, and after making these small changes, I was able to save hundreds on our heating bill each month, but who knew that my money was literally flying out of the cracks in my home!
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