A Smoking Furnace Is a Bad Sign Seeing smoke coming out of your furnace is alarming, and for good reason. It’s a wake-up call that something might be seriously wrong. While the cause could be minor, it could also point to a serious problem that affects your heating...
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Furnace Problems

These Smells Shouldn’t Be Coming From Your Furnace
Your furnace is supposed to warm your house, and while that may come with a few whiffs of heat or burning dust every now and again, it shouldn’t be described as an “odor.” If there’s a rotten smell coming from your furnace, it’s not normal. If you need furnace repair...
Most Common Furnace Problems and How to Deal With Them
You turn your thermostat to heat, walk away without a second thought, but then you realize that your home isn’t heating up. In fact, you can’t even hear your furnace kick on at all. It looks like you’ve run into a problem, and there’s no clear sign of what it is....
Is a Furnace Right for You?
It’s been cold for a while here in Albuquerque—is your heater performing the work that you need? You might want to give a knee jerk response to this and say yes, but there are a lot of factors that go into real comfort with your heater. If you feel like your heater...
3 Big Furnace Issues and Why They Happen
This time of year here in Santa Fe means cold weather. When temperatures really start to take a nosedive, your heater is really put to the test, and that means that any small problems that you might have start to become noticeable issues. If you have a furnace problem...