Our outside temperature last night got down to -1. It is the coldest I ever remember it being in Georgia and I have lived here my whole life. BRRRRRR!!! But when I got up this morning, I went to turn the thermostat up to take the chill off a little more and it was 59 degrees in the house! And the heat was running. So after a phone call to my mom, I turned on the emergency heat. It didn't help any. I left to get my license renewed and it went down 2 degrees. I called my mom again and she thought that maybe the heat just couldn't keep up with how cold it was. So I turned the heat back to normal and waited. About 5:00 it finally got back up to 68 in the house! I am so glad I called my mom and didn't immediately overreact and call the HVAC company! Now I know what to expect if it gets this cold here again. I will know that I need to buy a space heater before the next cold snap!
Heater Can't Keep Up
January 8th, 2014 at 12:46 am
January 8th, 2014 at 12:50 am 1389142203
Aw, if you lived closer, I'd share mine. We've had difficulties with the heater back in December and it was thankfully a routine maintenance issue (some plugged trap created some air pocket and the heater would turn off). Glad to hear that you got it working.
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January 9th, 2014 at 01:25 am 1389230717
Make sure you have a clean filter or change it now. If your heater is working hard to suck in air it doesn't run very well.
And with the extra cold it very well may take awhile to "catch-up".
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