
Emergency Heating Repair
Out here a heat outage in a hard freeze becomes a frozen-pipe problem long before morning, so call it in rather than waiting to see how the night goes.
When this becomes an emergency
- The house is losing several degrees an hour with a wind chill well below zero outside.
- A carbon monoxide alarm has sounded, or anyone in the house feels headachy or unusually drowsy.
- There's a burning or scorched smell around the furnace that doesn't clear.
- The propane tank gauge reads near empty and the burner has quit.
What a pro does
Triage happens on the phone. Anything involving a carbon monoxide alarm, a fuel odor, or smoke gets moved to the front of the queue, and the questions that follow are aimed at figuring out whether the house can hold temperature until a truck arrives or whether you should be shutting water off and moving somewhere warm. Travel time is part of the answer out here, and it's why, so a good dispatcher will ask what fuel the system burns and what the tank gauge reads before the truck rolls, since a propane run-out and a failed ignitor look identical from inside the house. That one question saves a wasted trip on both ends.
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