What Can Happen If Your Furnace Isn’t Installed Correctly?
Today’s home furnaces are more sophisticated pieces of equipment – a mix of electronic and mechanical components that connect to other computerized elements throughout your home. For this reason – and several others – a heating system should always be installed by a trained HVAC professional.
Why DIY Home Heating Installation Is Risky
What’s at risk if your furnace isn’t installed correctly? Here are six problems that could arise with poor furnace installation in your New Jersey or Staten Island home:
- Decreased efficiency – If you purchased a high efficiency furnace, you paid extra for that added performance – but improper installation can cancel out those great high efficiency benefits. An incorrectly installed or improperly sized heating system will overwork to heat your home; among other things, this overwork will cause your equipment to use more energy to do the same job.
- Electrical issues – An improperly installed furnace can overload the circuit breaker that controls it, causing it to trip and interrupt your heating service.
- Duct problems –Poorly designed and executed ductwork installation can cost you hundreds of dollars in lost heated air over the course of a year.
- Fuel leaks– Improper connection to your heating system’s fuel lines could cause a fuel leak, giving rise to safety risks (see below), poor heating system performance and diminished efficiency.
- Safety risks – Besides causing fuel leaks, an improperly installed furnace can lead to ventilation problems – a potentially dangerous risk to your family.
The Bottom Line With HVAC Installation
When it comes to installing an oil-fired heating system in NJ or SI, always call a licensed heating professional. By working with an HVAC expert from start to finish, you’ll know that your furnace is matched to the heating load of your home and installed and working correctly from day 1!
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