Handily ranking among the most important features in your Belleville, Ontario home, your HVAC system maintains a comfortable, habitable environment even when the weather outside is severe. As such, taking good care of it is essential. From performing regular filter changes to scheduling annual tune-ups, there’s a lot for homeowners to remember. Fortunately, you can make these efforts much easier and ensure nothing is overlooked by signing up for a preventative maintenance plan. Read on to discover the top three benefits of having one of these agreements.
1. Extend the Lifespan of Your Heating and Cooling Equipment
Heaters, air conditioners, and heat pumps all represent significant investments. If you’ve paid top dollar for a high-efficiency furnace or an AC system with cutting-edge features and technologies, taking good care of your purchase makes good sense. Although homeowners can tackle a number of minor maintenance tasks on their own, much of the maintenance work that HVAC systems require must be handled by professionals. During our service visits, we thoroughly inspect, clean, and calibrate each covered unit. We check for and resolve developing problems and swap out worn and damaged components. All of the work that we do is performed according to manufacturer specifications.
Our preventative maintenance service prolongs the lifespan of HVAC equipment by limiting stress, optimizing performance, and ensuring that minor issues are never allowed to spiral out of control. We work with our clients as partners to help them get the most from these essential home features. Best of all, if problems arise, we also assist homeowners in understanding their options for resolving them and making informed and budget-friendly decisions.
2. Enhance the Performance and Efficiency of Your Entire HVAC System
One of the most impressive benefits of having an HVAC preventative maintenance plan is the ability to optimize the efficiency and performance of your entire HVAC system. This benefit is multi-pronged. Better overall performance means:
- Improved indoor air quality (IAQ)
- Lower home energy bills
- A smaller carbon footprint
- Fewer repair issues
- A cleaner, healthier, and more enjoyable living environment all-around
Although they’re valued for their ability to heat and cool homes, HVAC systems actually have three very important jobs. They regulate indoor temperatures, offer modest amounts of IAQ control, and regulate indoor humidity. When your HVAC system works as it should, you won’t have to worry about excess humidity creating the right conditions for mold and mildew development. Your home will smell better, and building residents will have fewer IAQ-related symptoms and concerns.
Purchasing a preventative maintenance plan also eliminates human error by ensuring that routine tune-ups and inspections are never overlooked. With seasoned professionals visiting your home twice each year to service your furnace and air conditioner, issues like dirty HVAC air filters, dirty air registers or grilles, and blocked condensate drains never have the opportunity to cause total system failure or health problems.
When HVAC systems are cleaned and properly tuned up, they use far less energy to do the job. Not only can you have lower energy bills, but you can also rest assured that you’re doing your part to limit your impact on the natural environment. This is especially true if you use a gas-fired or oil-fired heating system or run your air conditioner non-stop during summer.
3. Maintain Compliance With Warranty and Insurance Policy Terms
Most new HVAC equipment comes with “parts” warranties and product warranties that can last up to five years or more. However, these protections only remain available to consumers when they’re diligent in keeping their heating and cooling systems well-maintained. In fact, whether you have a home warranty, a product warranty, or both, the coverage it supplies comes as part of a mutually binding agreement. Just as your HVAC equipment manufacturer or home warranty company has agreed to pay for covered repairs, you’ve agreed to perform a specified amount of maintenance. Even small oversights like forgetting to change your HVAC air filter or neglecting to schedule timely repairs could leave you with voided coverage and out-of-pocket costs.
It’s also important to note that the same rules apply to the HVAC coverage supplied by home insurance policies. Although your home insurance will pay for some or all of the damages incurred due to covered perils like floods and fire, having HVAC equipment coated in dust and grime and showing other signs of obvious neglect can result in a denial of claims.
In some instances, it may even be necessary to prove to your warranty issuer or insurance provider that you’ve fulfilled the maintenance terms set forth in the related contracts. With a preventative maintenance plan, you can stay on track with HVAC upkeep. You can also establish a solid and shareable record of the preventative maintenance services that your equipment has received.
The Lesser-Known Benefit of Preventative Maintenance Plans
If you’ve never worked in the HVAC industry before or spent most of your time as a renter rather than a homeowner, you may find it difficult to make truly informed decisions about your HVAC equipment. Even industry experts offer differing opinions on important subjects, such as whether to have HVAC air ducts professionally cleaned, when to clean them and when to replace them. Doing research to choose the most efficient heater or air conditioner on your own can quickly become an overwhelming effort. Fortunately, one of the lesser-known benefits of preventative maintenance agreements is the ability to establish a partnership with a trusted source of HVAC-related information.
When you sign up for one of our preventative maintenance plans, you’ll be given the time and attention you need to navigate the difficult process of replacing, repairing, or upgrading your HVAC equipment. You can even get help when choosing and installing integrated HVAC accessories. Our technicians will happily answer all of your questions. We’ll also explain the benefits and drawbacks of your available options. With our assistance, you can choose services and products that align with your budget and goals, and you can also learn how to troubleshoot and properly care for each of the different elements in your HVAC system.
How Our Preventative Maintenance Plans Make Life Easier
We offer preventative maintenance plans at three different tiers. This way, our clients can choose an option that suits their budgets, needs, and the requirements of their HVAC systems. Some of the benefits that our preventative maintenance plan subscribers enjoy are:
- Exclusive, preferential emergency service
- Deep discounts on repairs
- Partial or full discounts on service call costs
- Coverage for up to three pieces of equipment
Best of all, at certain plan levels, all parts used for comprehensive tune-ups are also covered.
We’re committed to helping residents of Belleville, ON, optimize their HVAC systems while curbing their spending. We offer heating and cooling installation, maintenance, and repairs. We also provide fireplaces and preventative maintenance agreements. To find out more about our full range of capabilities or to schedule service, call Armour Home Comfort today.
