Emergency Heating Repair

When a house is losing heat during a deep freeze, the clock is running against your plumbing, so call rather than wait for daylight.

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When this becomes an emergency

The house keeps dropping degree by degree with a hard wind off the bay and nothing running.
You smell something scorched, or gas, anywhere near the equipment.
A carbon monoxide alarm has sounded, even once.
Cabinets on outside walls feel icy and the faucets there have slowed to a trickle.

What a pro does

Triage starts on the phone. Anything with smoke, a scorched smell, gas odor, or a sounding CO alarm jumps the line, and the instruction's simple: get people out and call from somewhere else. For a plain outage, the questions are how long the heat has been down, how cold it is inside now, and whether any part of the house has plumbing on an exterior wall. That last answer changes the urgency more than anything else. A tech arriving on an emergency works the fast branches first, confirming power and fuel before opening anything up, since a tripped breaker and a dead control board don't look any different from the hallway. On the newer subdivisions with sidewall venting, a drifted or iced-over PVC termination shuts the unit down on a pressure fault, and clearing it can bring the heat back in minutes. Not every after-hours call is truly urgent, and saying so honestly helps the genuinely urgent ones get seen.

Frequently asked questions

How cold does it need to get inside before this becomes urgent?

There is no single number, but once a house drops into the forties and keeps falling, water lines in outside walls and unheated crawl spaces start to be at real risk.

The intake and exhaust pipes on the side of my house are buried in snow. Does that matter?

It matters a great deal. A sealed-combustion unit proves airflow through those pipes before it will fire, and a blocked termination locks it out on purpose.

Should the water be shut off while waiting?

Closing the main and opening faucets to drain the lines is a sensible precaution overnight in a deep freeze, and it limits the damage if something does let go.

Is a space heater a reasonable stopgap?

For one occupied room, used carefully and never unattended, it buys some comfort. It will not protect plumbing elsewhere in the house, so it does not replace getting the system running.

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