How To Avoid An Expensive Heating Bill This Season: Furnace Saving Tips

How To Avoid An Expensive Heating Bill This Fall/Winter?

Heating bills can at times rise exponentially high if not looked at, especially when winter knocks. On average, it's estimated that a single household spends around $1500 on heating bills annually. It is a considerable amount, and as time goes by, the situation doesn't seem to change at all. There are simple ways one can integrate into their life to lower the cost of heating.

Regular furnace maintenance is among the factors that add to the cost of heating. On average, it will cost you around 80 dollars to fully service your furnace, and the services will be excellent. Also, furnace maintenance offers house insulation is yet another method of lowing your heating bill. Finally, lowering your thermostat also adds to lowering your heating bills.

Reasons Why Heating Bills Are Often Expensive

The following reasons largely contribute to enormous heating bills in your home.
First, it lets home appliances such as fridges, cookers, and others bleed you dry by leaving them plugged when one uses them. It's surprising to note that modern home appliances usually draw electricity even when they get turned off. To save on power, it's essential to turn off electricity when you are not using these appliances.
Secondly, operating appliances such as cloth washers, dishwashers, and cloth dryers will get substantial heating bills. It is because these devices usually require large amounts of electricity compared to other hog devices. A quick solution to this challenge is ensuring that they get filled before running these devices on. Also, you can have HVAC services guide you on power and energy saving tips in regards to these devices.

Furnace Saving Tips

Below are some of the tips that will ensure your furnace is not using much of the energy.
• Changing the air filter regularly keeps and maintains energy costs down. Its recommended that this gets done every three months.HVAC services are excellent in changing and maintaining such types of equipment.
• Ensure your vents get checked and clean to ensure no obstructions or vents of your furnace get blocked as this forces your furnace to work harder, consuming much energy. There are experts in furnace installation who can assist you in all this.
• Regularly clean your furnace as this improves the optimal performance of your furnace. Once a year, it should be done to remove dust and other debris that might have found its way to the furnace. One can also engage professionals in furnace maintenance if they cannot clean it themselves.
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FAQ

What is a mini-split?

By definition, and simply put, a “Split System” is a heating and air conditioning system which has two main components, the indoor unit and outdoor unit. In short, the indoor unit absorbs heat energy in the cooling mode, and the outdoor unit rejects the very heat absorbed by the indoor unit. And the cycle is repeated until the set temperature is met. Although the indoor and outdoor units are located in physically different, hence “split” locations, they are connected and operate as, one system; continuously circulating refrigerant liquid and vapor by means of interconnecting, dehydrated copper refrigerant lines, commonly referred to as a “Line Set”.
Most common Boiler Issues

- Boiler fails to ignite
- Low pressure
- Strange Noises
- Boiler is not responding to the thermostat
- Cold Radiators
- Boiler leaking or dripping
- Boiler cycling very fast
- Available Hot water but No Heat
What is a heat pump?

Heat pumps use electricity to move heat from a cool space to a warm space, making the cool space cooler and the warm space warmer. During the heating season, heat pumps move heat from the cool outdoors into your warm house and during the cooling season, heat pumps move heat from your cool house into the warm outdoors. Because they move heat rather than generate heat, heat pumps can provide equivalent space conditioning at as little as one quarter of the cost of operating conventional heating or cooling appliances.
Why is there ice building up on the copper pipes?

There can be many reasons why the refrigerant pipes are freezing up but the most common issue is low refrigerant levels. If your AC unit has ice buildup turn off the unit for at least 4 hours and call us at 416-410-0337
What are mini-split advantages?

Just as the name implies, a “mini-split” system is a “split system” however available in smaller capacities, for single room to whole house conditioning. Mini-split systems may range from as small as 9,000 BTUh per hour, comparable to say, a small window AC unit, for individual room use, up to 4 and 5 ton capacities for “Room By Room” (also known as “Zoning”) and whole house conditioning. With near universal design, mini-splits are “heat pumps” which provide both heating and cooling for a home. Here are key advantages when compared to traditional split systems:

Efficiency- Mini-splits are highly engineered systems which offer attractive operating efficiencies, in many instances, eligible for utility company rebates.
Heat Pump- Most mini-split systems are heat pumps, providing year-round comfort.
Solar friendly- Due to very low power requirements, mini-splits are an ideal complement to “Net Zero Energy” homes, or any home using renewable power.
Carbon footprint- Mini-splits are 100% electric, with zero operating emissions of any type.
Zoning- Most mini-split manufacturers offer systems capable of room-by-room “zoning”, to account for peak demands of a room based upon construction type, exposure orientation and usage.
Variable capacity- Mini-splits are typically DC inverter driven. That is, a variable speed compressor which modulates in proportion to instantaneous demand. Most conventional split systems, by comparison, operate with an ON-OFF strategy. (Would you use an ON-OFF switch as the accelerator in your vehicle?)
Location, Location, Location!- Mini-split outdoor units are compact; they can be located far away from noise-sensitive areas, such as bedrooms and home offices. Mini-split indoor units have the ability to be installed where conventional systems cannot.
They’re perfect for additions and remodels where access to current HVAC system is difficult to access.
Modern mini-split systems are remarkably quiet; in fact, many times their operation is unnoticed by the end user.