{"id":853,"date":"2023-10-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conyers.premierishere.com\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2023-10-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:00:00","slug":"want-to-avoid-a-malfunctioning-heater-this-winter-schedule-maintenance-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/heating-service\/want-to-avoid-a-malfunctioning-heater-this-winter-schedule-maintenance-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Avoid a Malfunctioning Heater This Winter? Schedule Maintenance Now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conyers.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/furnace-with-technician-checking-it.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/conyers.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/furnace-with-technician-checking-it-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"furnace-with-technician-checking-it\" class=\"wp-image-854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/furnace-with-technician-checking-it-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/furnace-with-technician-checking-it-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/furnace-with-technician-checking-it.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We know you\u2019re probably busy with October festivities and the excitement of fall. You don\u2019t want to think about winter weather just yet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But fall is the ideal time to take care of several winter preparations\u2014and one of the most important is having your heating system professionally maintained. Regular maintenance does a lot of great things for your heating system, and one of the most important is that it eliminates the need for most <a href=\"\/conyers\/services\/heating\/heater-repair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">heater repair in Covington, GA<\/a>. You don\u2019t want your valuable time in your home during the winter interrupted by a malfunctioning heater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below, we\u2019re going to look at how maintenance will make your life easier (and less costly) this coming winter. Once you\u2019re ready to go, contact our team to schedule your all-important maintenance appointment. Our Energy Savings Agreement makes maintenance even more beneficial than it already is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Preventing Malfunctions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an odd analogy, but stay with us. Imagine your heater as a stand-up comedian. It\u2019s got the potential to make you laugh\u2014or, in this case, keep you warm. However, any good comedian needs to practice their material to keep their timing going, make sure the jokes land. A comedian can\u2019t just stand up and read some jokes and expect anything to happen. In fact, the comedian can expect the worst: <em>to bomb<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s what your heater may do if it doesn\u2019t get the maintenance to ensure it\u2019s jokes land, i.e. deliver the heating you need. Maintenance tightens up all the loose parts, oils the machinery, makes sure everything is working the way it should so there are no uncomfortable pauses in its performance that will leave its audience, well, cold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Extending Service Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All heating systems have a lifespan, after which they need to retire to the recycling yard. You want to put off that retirement for as long as possible so you get the best return on your original investment in the heater. Scheduling regular maintenance is similar to getting your heater a regular doctor\u2019s appointment to ensure that it continues to work in peak condition year after year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maintenance rejuvenates a heater and will extend its service life. Without maintenance, you can expect the heater to age faster and need replacement many years earlier. Maybe at <em>half<\/em> its expected retirement age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Improve Efficiency<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Preventing repairs and keeping a heater from failing too early has another benefit: it means the heater will run smoother and easier. As a heater ages, it will need to work harder to do its same job. That will translate into higher heating bills, getting higher year after year, until you\u2019re paying 25% more for your home heating than you should.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can eliminate all that energy waste when you keep up with maintenance. Rather than losing an average of 5% efficiency each year, your heater will only lose 5% of its efficiency over most of its service life. That adds up to a lot of energy saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"\/contact-us\/send-a-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Experience the Premier Difference! Premier Heating &amp; Air has been family-owned and operated since 2001.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below, we\u2019re going to look at how maintenance will make your life easier (and less costly) this coming winter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,76],"tags":[97,49],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conyers","category-heating-service","tag-covington","tag-heating-system-maintenance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.premierishere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}