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Treat Your Heating System to a Professional & Precision Tune Up Each Year!

1.      Having a gas boiler or furnace means that you have a live fire in your house. All of us want that fire to burn safely and is properly controlled. But, dirty or plugged burners, a cracked heat exchange, a worn out gas valve or a filthy pilot can easily make that fire unsafe.

2.      Older furnaces or boilers do not have the safety devices to turn off an uncontrolled flame. Flames can also be distorted and ruin heat exchangers. On newer furnaces or boilers the safety devices need to be checked yearly for proper operation.  

3.      A clean boiler or furnace will save you money on your gas and electric bills. Boilers may have circulating pumps and inducer motors. Furnaces have blower motors and often inducer motors. That is 2 motors running each time the heating system starts up.

4.      When air filters are not changed often, dirt accumulates on the blower wheel. That dirt creates a drag on the blower motor; making the motor work harder. Inducer motors and wheels also need to be checked. Circulating pumps need to be properly oiled, to ease operation.

Remember: your heating system works harder than your car or truck. It will cycle somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 times this season. Even if the winter is mild, the system will start, stop and run longer than if you took your car to California and back to Chicagoland twice this winter.
Would you even consider driving a 1984 car to California? What if your car is 30 years old?

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