HVAC Tips from Sears Heating and Cooling

By having Sears Heating & Cooling perform annual maintenance on your gas furnace, you’re already on your way to having the most comfortable home possible for the winter. However, have you ever wondered how that big mechanical box in your basement actually works? Well wonder no more! Currently, there are a few different types of furnaces on the market including: Gas Furnaces Oil Furnaces Boiler Furnaces Electric Furnaces Each of these furnaces all accomplish the same goal of heating your home, but they can vary in how they operate individually. Gas furnaces populate the largest portion of homes today. These furnaces operate by burning natural gas, consisting of both methane and other carbon based gasses. The igniter within the furnace turns on when the thermostat in the home registers below a preset temperature. Gas begins to flow into the furnace through underground pipes and the igniter then lights the natural gas, creating several flames that heat a set of metal tubes known as a heat exchanger within your furnace. The heat exchanger is the part that the cold, return air will flow over and become warm before the blower sends this air to the vents throughout your home. Because gases are flowing into the heat exchanger in this process, a cracked or damaged heat exchanger can cause carbon monoxide, an odorless, tasteless, deadly gas, to enter your home. Because of problems such as these, it is important to have Sears Heating & Cooling conduct annual maintenance on your furnace to…

Summer and 73 degrees.  Wonderful for your home, a sad day for those of us in the AC business. But we’re in  Columbus,Ohio…so any day, it will be 90 degrees…or 25 degrees.  And when that happens, you NEED your furnace and AC to work.  Which is why we are  recommending a furnace tune-up.  Sort of like an oil change for your car.  You do it so it WON’T break down. Need a few more good reasons: It will extend the life of your equipment It will get your furnace as close to factory specs as possible (which means it keeps it running like new) You will save energy and money on your energy bill.  A well-tuned furnace runs more efficiently. Schedule your furnace tune-up before your schedule gets crazy and so does ours.  Every tune-up comes with a free carbon monoxide check.

Allergy season is right around the corner. Open windows means allergens come in and those allergens will get trapped inside making allergy suffers miserable. Dust and dirt build up and pose a great health risk for the people living inside. With exposure to these air pollutants, you can get respiratory problems, allergy, colds, and asthma. Reducing these problems is possible by installing an air purifier inside the house. Air purifiers are designed to filter the indoor air and catch harmful air pollutants. Filtering the air inside the entire house will help provide you and your family fresh and clean air and drastically reduce dust, viruses, and bacteria that cause respiratory problems, allergy, and colds and make asthma problems worse and more frequent. With air purifiers, you and your family can breathe easier. You will find that air purifiers get rid of the odors that you definitely would not want to smell. Air purifiers target all the impurities found in the inside air such as mold and dust, which are major factors that trigger allergies indoors. Also, air purifiers can get rid of dust mites. Dust mites usually dwell in our beds, and every time we lie down on our beds, we actually breathe these dust mites, which can potentially harm our respiratory system in the long run. With air purifiers, these dust mites don't stand a chance. There are various forms of air purifiers. But the best way to purify the air you and your family are breathing is a...

The 35th annual NBC4 Firefighters for Kids Toy Drive, a partnership of the Columbus Division of Fire and NBC4 was another huge success on December 15, 2012, and Sears Heating and Cooling was lucky enough to be a part of it. Central Ohio came out in force to contribute toys to needy kids. Their generosity filled one and a half tractor-trailers with toys and left more than $28,000 in monetary and gift card donations in support of Firefighters for Kids.

Every year, the ACCA (Air Conditioning Contractors of America) chapters and members around the country fan out to service or replace furnaces in the homes of the elderly, disabled, or low-income. On Saturday, September 29, 2012 ACCA members will join together and provide a FREE heating system cleaning and carbon monoxide check to approximately 200 homes in Columbus. The “Heat the Town, Columbus!” program is intended to meet the needs of people who need help to ensure their heating systems are operating safely. Heat the Country sprang from a community service project, Heat the Town, initiated by ACCA’s North Texas chapter in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In 2004, ACCA’s board of directors voted to make it a national campaign. The chapters work with public and private social service organizations to identify families who need help. ACCA chapters in Central Ohio (both Franklin and Fairfield Counties), Greater Cincinnati, Greater Cleveland, and Greater Dayton will also participate in their own Heat the Town event. Each chapter takes its own approach to the effort. For example, the local Columbus chapter has been working with the Columbus/Franklin County Community Action Agency, IMPACT, and other city agencies to identify people who were low income, disabled, and elderly. It’s a community service effort, but it’s also rewarding for the volunteers. Sears Heating and Cooling is happy to be involved again this year. ACCA Central Ohio provides a visible and ethical standard for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) companies in the Central Ohio area, leading...