Heating and furnace repair in Austin, TX.

Heating in Central Texas is a short season with a long tail of neglect. A furnace here might run a few hundred hours a year, against a couple of thousand for the cooling side, so it spends most of its life sitting in a closet or an attic collecting dust. Then the first real cold front arrives, the burner is asked for full output, and the parts that have been quietly corroding for ten months all get tested at once. That is why the phone rings on the same night for everybody.

The failures are consistent. A flame sensor coated in oxide so the board cannot prove flame and locks out after three tries. A hot surface igniter cracked from thermal cycling. A pressure switch that will not make because the inducer is dirty or the flue is partially blocked. A limit switch tripping because the blower or filter has starved the heat exchanger of airflow. On the electric side, a bank of heat strips with an open element or a failed sequencer, so the system technically runs and delivers nothing. On a heat pump, a defrost board or reversing valve fault that leaves you running on expensive auxiliary heat all winter without knowing it.

Combustion equipment gets treated differently from cooling equipment, and it should. A gas furnace is an appliance with a flue, a heat exchanger and a carbon monoxide risk if it is damaged or improperly vented. Any heating call we take includes looking at the things that are about safety rather than comfort: the heat exchanger, the venting, the combustion air, and whether anything else in the house has been added that competes with the flue.