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Furnace Repairs & Service
Be sure to call G.M. Mechanical to have your furnace serviced or repaired. Regular maintenance of your heating and air conditioning systems will help to ensure that systems function as they should as well as provide years of worry free service. ... book an appointment
Need a New Furnace? Choose Lennox
With a large line of furnaces available, you can find the Lennox Furnace that is right for you. GM Mechanical stocks a large range of Lennox high efficiency furnaces and mid efficiency furnaces for retro-fit applications. .... more
Noritz Tankless Water Heaters
With a Noritz tankless water heater, you'll save energy and thus, money. Our on-demand systems require no pilot light and can save about half the cost of your current water heating bill since there is no re-heating of water as with traditional water heaters.
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First off, they are far more efficient that a regular hot water tank! Second, they do not waste natural gas by heating water when you’re not home. One thing to watch for when buying a tankless is the capacity. People read the capacity wrong in many cases. Most brands advertise their capacities using ground water temperature down in the southern United States. Our ground water temperature is much lower here, thus the capacity will not be the same. The other thing to take note of when buying a tankless is that it takes approximately 1-2 gallons of water to go through the unit before it fires up. This creates a slightly longer timeframe for hot water to get to your tap. With both of those factors in mind, you may be ready to start saving money on gas!
With almost all digital thermostats, when the batteries run out of power, they stay in whatever position they were in when the batteries ran out. So if your furnace is in heating mode when the batteries run out, it will stay in heating mode until you change the batteries.
This is referred to as “short-cycling”. There are a few ways your furnace will do this, but by far the most common is due to a plugged filter. With a plugged filter, your furnace cannot get enough airflow to move the heat away from the heat exchanger and into the rest of the house. This causes your furnace to “trip” on hi-limit. You furnace will not come back on until it cools down to a safe temperature.
This depends on the filter. Typical 1” filters should be cleaned or replaced every 1-3 months. 5” hi-efficient filters only require replacement once per year, or twice per year if you have air conditioning.
Furnaces and Air Conditioners are like cars in that they need regular service. Most manufactures recommend that they be service by a qualified technician, once per year. Some manufactures are requiring records of the maintenance on equipment before issuing any warranty.
Older furnaces were a much simpler design. They do not have the safety features that newer furnaces have. Also with the older furnaces they we very in-efficient, typically only 50% efficient. This means that for every dollar used to heat your home, 50 cents is going up your chimney. With the money you’d save with a hi-efficient furnace you can pay for regular maintenance and still have to furnace pay itself off in a short period of time!