Submitted by Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing
April showers bring May…tenance? That’s right! While many of us think of sunny days and spring flowers this time of year, the team at Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing thinks of maintenance for your home.
As you’re out refreshing your gardens or washing your car this spring, take a moment to circle your house. From your gas fireplace to your ductless unit, heat pump to your outdoor faucets (also known as hose bibbs!), your home is full of important systems that could use a little love.
These systems in your home operate continuously day in and day out, putting in some serious miles. Your heating and air conditioning equipment, for example, operates over 3,000 hours per year, through cold winters, hot and smoky summers, and everything in between. Putting this into perspective, a car driven for 3,000 hours at 60mph would travel 180,000 miles! That kind of road trip requires oil changes, tire rotations, and tune-ups to ensure the efficiency, safety, and reliability of your vehicle. And just the same, the efficiency, safety, and reliability of your home’s most important systems matter too.
Wear and tear is inevitable, but a tune-up with Barron is designed to be the top-to-bottom checkup needed for the health of your home. During a maintenance service, our trained technicians focus on returning your system(s) to the operating specifications originally engineered, catching any problem areas before they become bigger issues. If it’s a furnace maintenance, that means comprehensively cleaning and adjusting its interior components, checking for performance decline, and changing out your air filters to improve both your indoor air quality and performance of the unit. If it’s your fireplace that’s due for a check-up, our techs will test the electrical components, thoroughly clean the interior and glass, and assess the unit for any safety issues. And if it’s your plumbing, we’ll check your tanked or tankless water heater, boiler, and more.
A decline in performance is almost guaranteed when maintenance is neglected for your home’s comfort systems—as is a steady increase in energy use. Your air conditioner, for example, can experience notable strain by sitting untouched. Allowing an AC unit to run with a dirty, clogged filter alone can increase its energy consumption by 5-15% (energy.gov) and invite costly breakdowns. Regular HVAC maintenance is said to reduce these unexpected breakdowns by a whopping 95% (iaqa.org), extending the life of your investment, and often keeping it under warranty, should it apply.
If reducing energy bills and avoiding breakdowns isn’t encouragement enough to get your systems maintained, considering the safety of your home might be. Coming home in the dead of winter to a frozen house can lead to a domino effect of burst pipes, water damage, and leaks. And leaks from a cracked or failed heat exchanger is the real hazard, as it can cause carbon monoxide to escape into your home, resulting in serious health issues in even the lowest of levels (iaqa.org).
Ready for your house call? Spring is the perfect time. Now through May 31, Barron is offering an impressive “MAYtenance” special to refresh your home. From heating and cooling to fireplaces, plumbing, hydronics, and electrical, maintenance matters, and we’d love to welcome new customers to experience what our team has to offer. As a new customer, you’ll receive a maintenance visit for the system of your choice for just $100—a huge savings to kick off spring!
A check-up for your home is just as important as a check-up for your health (or car!). So as you’re refreshing your home for spring, we invite you to give our team at Barron Heating AC Electrical & Plumbing a try and take advantage of our $100 “MAYtenance” savings. From improving indoor air quality and performance to ensuring the safety and reliability of your home’s most essential systems, we’d love to stop by for a tune-up—before you turn down your heat for the summer or fire up your AC. As your Pacific Northwest home and building performance experts since 1972, we stand by Our Mission: Improving Lives™.
