Furnace Repair in Price, UT
Furnaces here run from September through May. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Carbon County will get in touch.
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Nine months of heat wears a furnace down in Carbon County
From September through May your furnace is the thing standing between you and a 15°F night. That is nine months a year it has to work, and most homes here heat with gas, so the burner and igniter are lighting and shutting off day after day through the whole stretch. Each cycle wears on the igniter a little more, until it stops lighting the burner at all.
Carbon County has seen 29 winter storms and 12 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and outages come with weather like that. A furnace with a standing pilot keeps running through a power loss, but most modern ones need electricity to ignite and to run the blower, so when the power drops, so does your heat.
- 9 months
- September through May, your furnace is on duty
- 15°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 82%
- of homes here heat with gas, so most furnaces here burn gas
- 29 winter storms
- in ten years, the nights a failure hurts most
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new furnace would cut about $130 a year off heating for a typical Carbon County home.
Estimates for a typical Carbon County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Utah fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
Repair makes sense when one part has failed and the heat exchanger is sound.
Replacement makes sense when the heat exchanger is cracked or the furnace keeps needing parts.
Utah requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
The Division of Professional Licensing tests HVAC contractors before they can hold this license. The license belongs to the contractor, not to any one repair. Utah also sets a line under this rule. Work under $7,000 does not need a licensed contractor, and a furnace repair often falls under that amount.
When a job falls under that line, the state's testing and record are not standing behind it the way they would on a licensed job. What still matters is the gas connection itself. That is the part of a furnace repair that turns a mistake into a danger. In Carbon County, 82.1% of homes heat with gas.
Sources: Utah State Legislature · Utah Department of Commerce
- Why won't my furnace turn on?
- The most common cause is the thermostat not calling for heat, followed by a tripped breaker or a switch that got bumped off. Check the thermostat batteries and settings first, then look at the breaker panel. If both check out, the igniter or the flame sensor may have failed, and that's a job for a licensed contractor to diagnose.
- Why is my furnace blowing cold air?
- Air that stays cold usually means the burners aren't lighting even though the blower is running. A dirty flame sensor is a common reason for this, since it shuts the gas off as a safety measure when it can't detect a flame. With winter lows here averaging 15°F, a furnace that won't light needs attention the same day.
- Why won't my furnace pilot light stay lit?
- A pilot light that won't stay lit is usually a sign the thermocouple has worn out and is no longer holding the gas valve open. Drafts around the burner compartment or a dirty pilot orifice can cause the same problem. A standing pilot burns gas even when the furnace isn't heating, so this isn't something to leave unfixed through a 9 month heating season.