You should never neglect your furnace, especially during the winter.
Well, I guess the truth of the matter is that you should never neglect your furnace at all at any time of the year.
That’s something that we actually learned the hard way when we didn’t have our furnace looked at by a professional earlier this year whenever the weather started cooling down in the fall. We didn’t really think that we needed to have the heating system looked at back then because it just wasn’t all that cold yet. We thought that we had plenty of time to get the furnace maintained and updated before the winter, but we were wrong about that. The weather started cooling down quicker than we thought it would and by the time we wanted to get the furnace fixed, it was too late. We had to get put on the waiting list at the HVAC company and it took a really long time for us to get our furnace looked at. Since we had neglected our furnace throughout the summer and the fall, we were really looking at some major issues with the furnace by the time that the weather really started to get cold. If we had only taken care of it the way that we should have during the off season, then we wouldn’t have had so many problems with it when we actually needed it. I think that it would be better for us if we enrolled in a heating and cooling maintenance program. If we had an HVAC technician come to our house on a regular basis to check things out for us, I know that it would be better for us.