How to Get More from Your Heating System
When you're warm enough or cool enough inside your home, you don't even give your HVAC systems a second thought. You know, "don't fix what isn't broken." Well, "fixing" isn't the only thing heating and cooling system need from time to time. In fact, you can prevent a whole lot of fixing with annual system maintenance. We'll come back to that point at the end of this blog. In the meantime, here's something else to consider. You want your heating system (as one example) to last as long as possible, right? Of course you do. Here are several additional ways [...]
How to Heat Your Home for Less
There’s one sure way to keep warm during the winter: just spike the thermostat whenever you start to feel cold. That assumes, of course, that you don’t mind paying sky-high utility bills. For people who do mind, they sometimes wrack their brains trying to come up with new and creative ways to keep warm without raising the thermostat. Our advice? Stop “wracking” for just a few minutes and see if any of the following tips for reducing your home heating costs apply to you: Wear multiple layers of clothes – When you’re trying to reduce your heating bills, walking around [...]
How to Choose the Right Space Heater
Do you have that one room or area of your home that is knee-knocking cold while the rest of the house is perfectly comfortable? Or, perhaps you prefer your home at a pleasant 68 degrees F, while another member of your household enjoys a cozier 72. No doubt about it: you can please some of the people some of the time, but not necessarily…well, you know the rest. That’s why, when it comes to home heating, a portable space heater can serve as the great equalizer, providing individualized warmth to certain rooms without the need to spike the temperature everywhere [...]
Autumn is Furnace Maintenance Season
Do you have a list of autumn “must do’s” whether on paper, computer, or inside your head? If so, it’s time to give a fresh look to see if furnace maintenance is a prominent entry. If not, it’s time to make your list one item longer. In late summer or early autumn, you don’t need very much heat. But the weather has a way of turning pretty quickly here in the Greater Omaha and Council Bluffs area, which makes early to mid-autumn the perfect time to have your system checked by a licensed heating professional. Your Burton home heating professionals [...]
Common Furnace Odors and What Causes Them
Your home has a number of ways of letting you know that all is not well. For example, that offensive odor coming from your kitchen could mean it’s time to clean and deodorize your garbage disposal. Or maybe it just means it’s time to throw out those left-overs…from last month. While some issues are more annoying than serious, others could lead to real problems if not tended to promptly. Take your furnace, for example. It’s prone to making loud, unusual noises AND to emitting certain telltale odors. When it comes to the latter, it’s important to know what’s considered normal, [...]
“Should I Replace My Furnace?”
Is it time for a new box of your favorite cereal? It is if the last one is nearly or completely empty. Is your car due for an oil change? One quick look at your odometer and your latest oil change sticker will answer that one for you. The point being, often times it’s clear as day as to what can or should happen next. In other situations, the answer to “what comes next?” isn’t nearly as clear. Take, for example, the decision regarding whether you should replace your furnace now or wait until some future date. That can be [...]
Heating System Check, Now Just $47.
What can $47 buy you? How about a winter’s worth of peace of mind, at least where it concerns your home heating system. Well, that’s exactly what Burton is offering with this limited time special: a very thorough inspection of your home heating system for just $47 with the coupon you’ll find on the Special Offers page of our website. What’s the big deal about a heating system check, you might ask? Well, given that most heating systems have an average life expectancy of about 15 years, over time the wear and tear of an Omaha winter starts to take [...]
“Is it Time to Replace My Furnace?”
All summer long you ignored it. After all, what was the point? You were just happy to be spending more time outdoors where the sun supplied all the heat you needed. We’re talking about your furnace, of course. That vital piece of mechanical equipment you rely on to the extreme to keep you and your family safe and warm all winter long. But like any other good thing, even your furnace will come to the end of its effective lifespan. Is that time now or right around the corner? It might be, at that, if you start noticing any of [...]
How to Prevent Home Heat Loss
Let’s say you just purchased a new heating system. And while it seems to be working about as well as you expected, you’re not seeing the kind of heating cost reductions you expected. Well, assuming it was properly sized and installed, chances are you’re experiencing the kind of day-in, day-out heat loss that relentlessly drives up heating costs for millions of families all over the country. What can you do to reverse that trend? Let’s have a look: Attic insulation – Unless your attic is well insulated, heat could be rising up to and through your roof. If it’s been [...]
Preventative Maintenance Gives Your Heating System a Running Start
Your home heating system is very much like a runner. But one that runs marathons, not sprints. If a marathon runner isn’t fully prepared, he or she could easily collapse long before the finish line. The exact same thing holds true for your heating system. In fact, heating system manufacturers recommend annual tune-ups and inspections even on brand new systems so they can perform at peak efficiency, all winter long. At Burton, we’re sort of like marathon trainers in our own right. As in, we have the training, skill, and experience to prepare your home heating system for whatever lies [...]
Emergency Furnace Repair, So You Don’t Have to Wait
If you’re reading this blog, then chances are you’re in the middle of a home heating emergency. If not, then perhaps you’re looking for someone you can turn to, with confidence, should the need ever arise. In and around Omaha, that someone is Burton. Our many established customers have come to rely on true 24/7 service, and so have many new customers who have switched their service loyalty to Burton this winter alone. In addition to getting your heating system back up and running again, here’s what else you can count during a heating service call, emergency or otherwise: . [...]
4 Benefits of Electric Baseboard Heating
In and around Omaha, gas heating systems rule the roost. But that doesn’t mean you won’t occasionally bump into a home or neighborhood with electric baseboard heating systems, especially where no natural gas service is available. Is electric baseboard heating a good investment for you? It can be. Take a few minutes now to check out these important benefits: Flexible usage. Since there’s no central furnace with electric baseboard heating systems, you can use them in three key ways for the ultimate in flexibility: to heat your whole house, to heat one or more rooms not reached by your central [...]