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How to avoid furnace repair costs during a home renovation?

Author: Jason Taylor
by Jason Taylor
Posted: Sep 20, 2016

It’s awful to pay extra for furnace repair because of home renovation. You just got your entire house renovated, and it looks like your dream house once again but then you switched on your furnace and boom! It made a loud noise and then stopped working. What could have gone wrong? I was working fine last time you checked. Then what? It’s the home renovation.

All that dust and debris that is formed during the renovation process can mess up your HVAC system. Here are a few tips on how to avoid that.

  1. Close off the registers before starting renovation: Call for a furnace companies service or an HVAC service to have a look at your system and close down the registers. The quantity will depend on the renovation project you’re going to have and your system requirements. Closing the registers will ensure that the dirt picked up from your house doesn’t end up in these crucial components of your furnace.
  2. Do the dusty work outside: All the dusty work like preparing the wood for shelves or cabinets etc. creates a lot of dust and debris. A large part of it can get sucked into the vents and make your system malfunction. So, make a choice. Either do those work outside in the garage or whatever not-so-comfortable position you can find outside your house or pay extra for furnace repair.
  3. Clean every day: Make it a habit to clean everything you can at the end of each day. It will prevent the dust from circulating your house.

4. Don’t run the furnace when the work is going on: The best method to avoid furnace repair frederick resulting from home renovation is not to operate the furnace during the work. That’s why people suggest that fall is the best season for home improvement activities. The weather is cold and doesn’t call for a furnace or an air conditioner (like in summer). You can easily choose not to switch on the furnace until the work is done.

5. Change the filter: If you’re reading this (lucky you!), you should read this point even more carefully. What if your furnace is working just fine after the renovation work? Does that mean it survived, and you have got nothing to worry about? No. You still need to be careful, and either call a furnace repair and maintenance service for maintenance or at least change the filters. Not changing filters will make your furnace work harder to reach the set temperature and ultimately, make it break down due to excessive load on the system.

That’s how you can avoid furnace repair germantown costs after the home renovation. Did you find this helpful? Do let me know.

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