Arlington Furnace Repair

Arlington TX Furnace Repair

When those cold Texas nights finally catch up with your furnace, call the Arlington furnace repair team you can count on. We put the heat back into your heating and cooling system.

From new installs to maintenance and repair, we do it all. Call today to talk to one of our trained operators about all the services we offer. We carry and service all the national brands of furnace and heat pumps. So make the right choice for all of your Arlington TX heating and furnace issues.

Keeping Your Arlington Furnace Clean

Replacing a furnace can be a time consuming and expensive proposition. To avoid that, we suggest that you take a few simple steps to prolong the life as well as improve the functionality of our heating system. The biggest and easiest thing people can do is maintaining their filters.

When filters become clogged with debris, they cut down on a furnace’s efficiency and, over time, can cause parts to wear out faster. Furnaces typically have either a permanent screen, or a disposable air filter used to remove dust and allergens.

Here are a few guidelines to maintaining this part of your air system. A permanent air screen or electronic air filter should be cleaned according to manufacturer’s recommendations. Disposable filters should be checked periodically— monthly during winter—and cleaned or changed as needed. Pleated fabric filters are a good, inexpensive choice for reducing dust and allergens.

Furnace Maintenance

In addition to regularly inspecting your Arlington furnace’s filter, vacuum and brush the heat exchanger surfaces every year, if recommended by your owner’s manual. Before the heating season, clean the blower blades and seal any air leaks in ducts with several wraps of duct tape.

To change a replaceable air filter there are several simple steps:

Turn off the power to the unit. Look for the door or panel that conceals the blower; sometimes this is marked “Filter.” Lift this door or panel off its holding hooks, or unscrew its retaining screws to remove it. Standard filters are mounted next to or under the blower motor. Slide the filter out along its tracks. Check to see whether it is a disposable filter or intended to be cleaned and replaced—this information should be marked on the filter’s edge, along with directions for cleaning, if applicable.

If it’s a disposable filter, its size will likely be printed on the frame’s edge. Make a note of it. Buy a replacement, and slide it into place, noting that arrows stamped on the side indicate the proper direction of airflow; be sure you face these in the proper direction.

While you have the furnace open, vacuum out the area around the blower. If possible, slide out the fan unit, clean each fan blade with a brush or sponge, and then vacuum with a brush attachment on a vacuum cleaner. Look for oil ports on the motor, normally located near the motor shaft. If the motor has these, apply two to three drops of non-detergent motor oil into each port (you may have to remove a cover plate to do this). Most contemporary motors don’t require lubrication, but motors with oil ports should be lubricated once a year.

Look for worn belts between the motor and pulleys.  If you see any call us today and we will have a certified technician out to your Arlington Texas home to replace it in a jiffy.