What To Do When Your Heating And Air System Is Out Of Whack

Your heating and air system is vital to your home being comfortable and it plays a huge part in how low or high your home's energy bills are. If your HVAC system is the right size for your space and your home is energy efficient you should experience a home that is always environmentally comfortable with low energy bills.

When your home is operating with a HVAC system that is the wrong size your comfort level goes down considerably and your energy bills go way up. You can usually tell when your home heating and air system is sized incorrectly for your home.

In the summer time an incorrectly sized system will do one of two things instead of what you expect. It will either put out wet air so you feel like you're in a shower or it will run for short spurts, make the home too cold and then it won't kick back on until the house is again in a hot zone. In the winter your HVAC will also run ineffectively. The air will be dry and the house will either go to the extreme of being too hot and uncomfortable or it will be luke warm and have a system that runs constantly and ineffectively at heating the home.

Older homes were generally built with a heating and air system that were not very energy efficient because that was all that was available and it wasn't uncommon for the units to be sized incorrectly as a result. These large monsters tended to take up a lot of room and operate at a costly level. On top of that older homes tended to be poorly insulated so high-energy bills and drafty homes seemed to go hand in hand as the norm. Thankfully today, even if you have an older home you don't have to live in a home that is uncomfortable or cost a mortgage payment to keep environmentally comfortable.

If you suspect your heating and air system unit needs to be upgraded have a HVAC technician come out to your home to size up your unit needs and give you a written estimate on what it will cost to replace. Be wary of any HVAC company that can give you a quote over the phone to size your home unit because your needs are not solely based on the square footage of your home. Other factors also come into play such as how weatherized your home is and how your duct system is laid out. If your home is not adequately weatherized the HVAC technician will recommend what you need to do in order to get the most out of replacing your unit including replacing windows and doors with more energy efficient models.

Once you have the correct heating and air system in place, your home will be environmentally comfortable and your energy bills will be reasonable. And that's what you should expect from your HVAC unit in the first place.