furnace repair Boise – cracked heat exchanger

Furnace Repair Boise – cracked heat exchanger

This and every blog that follows is designed to help you the homeowner better understand your HVAC system. How it works and what it takes to keep it running well.  Today we are going to talk about a furnace repair that occurred concerning a cracked heat exchanger.  The home owner had been told her heat exchanger was cracked and she needed a new furnace.

Furnace repair Boise straight talk

So first off lets talk about what is a heat exchanger?  Your heat exchanger is a chamber where the gas from your furnace burns to create heat.  It separates the burning gas from the air in your home.  The house air goes around the cells to pick up the heat to deliver it to your home.  When a hole or crack is created then carbon monoxide can leak into the air stream and into your home.  This is bad since carbon monoxide is poisonous and has no smell or color.  Also a crack can cause your furnace to catch on fire by pushing the flames outwards into your furnace.  Heat exchangers CAN NOT be repaired!  They must either be replaced or replace the furnace.  Since most of the time the heat exchangers cost more than the furnace itself, the end result is to replace the furnace.

Furnace Warranty

However, on this furnace repair Boise, the heat exchangers had a 20 year warranty.  The other company failed to tell her this.  Lucky for her she contacted us.  We were able to get a new heat exchanger at no cost to her.  All she paid was $350 to install the new one.  Now she has a good running furnace and it didn’t cost an arm or a leg.  So this furnace repair Boise worked out pretty well.  In addition we recommended she purchase and install at least (1) CO detector to help alert her in the case of a CO leak.  These can be purchased from us or your local hardware store.  It is important when dealing with any repair company, to ask questions and understand what is wrong and what the options might be.

Your money, your way

It is your money, get the answers you want before you spend it!  This has been an ac repair Boise blog about furnace repair Boise – heat exchangers.  Look for other helpful blogs soon, and for all of your heating and air conditioning needs call the experts at AC REPAIR BOISE.