The summer is truly over, fall has begun, and it won’t be long before you will have to start to furnace for Heating in Portland. Heating System Maintenance is usually a pretty easy thing to do, that is, if you have your furnace checked at the beginning of each season. However, there are always those times when something goes wrong, and suddenly you are left sitting in the cold, and not knowing what happened. Below are some tips on how to do maintenance on your furnace before you call in the professionals to take care of the problem for you. In most cases, all it takes is a little common sense to get the heat flowing again.
The first thing you want to do is take some preliminary measures before you start working on your Heating in Portland. Checking to see that the furnace is receiving power may solve the problem for you. The best place to look is in the breaker box to see if the breaker is tripped, or fuses have been blown. If none of these measures do the trick for you, then you can follow the steps below. Read more
* If you unit has a reset button, wait 30 minutes, until the unit has cooled, and then press the reset button. Do this up to three times at 30 minutes intervals to rule this out as a cause.
* One of the most simple, but often forgotten, things to do is to check and make sure that the furnace is on. Many units have separate power switches.
* Make sure that the thermostat is set properly, if you need to raise it by a few degrees to try and kick on the heat.
* If your furnace is gas make sure the pilot light is lit, and if it is oil, make sure that you have enough oil.
If none of these do the trick for you then you will have to take other measures. One thing you want to remember however, is that you never want to even open the cover on your furnace without first turning the electric current off to the unit. Electricity is deadly, dangerous, and nothing to play around with period, so be safe instead of sorry. It may be best to call in a professional at this point.
