Preventative maintenance for everything in the house, not one machine
Most homes here have more than one thing that needs annual attention, and they rarely get looked at by the same people in the same year. A planned program covers all of it on one schedule, with the readings tracked year to year so wear becomes visible long before it becomes a failure.
What is actually in your house
Tick everything you have. We will show you how many visits a year that adds up to and what each one covers.
Home equipment planner
A guide to the shape of a program, not a quote. The real schedule comes from seeing the equipment.
Visits get grouped so one technician covers everything scheduled for that season in a single trip, rather than sending someone out for each item separately.
The value is in the second and third year
A single service tells you whether something is broken today. A program tells you what is changing, and change is what lets you plan instead of react.
Baseline
Everything measured and written down. Capacitance, charge, combustion, static pressure, water pressure. On the first visit these are just numbers, and anything already out of spec gets flagged and priced.
Comparison
Now the numbers mean something. A capacitor that has lost measurable capacitance, a charge that has drifted, a combustion reading that has moved. None of it has failed, and all of it is now predictable.
Prediction
With three points you have a trend rather than a reading. That is what lets us say a component has roughly a season left, so you replace it in April on your schedule instead of in July on somebody else's.
This is the argument for staying with one contractor. The comparison only works if somebody kept the previous readings. A different company every year means starting from zero every year, which is why so many systems fail without warning despite being serviced regularly.
The things that never get looked at
Heating and cooling get attention because they fail loudly. The rest of the house tends to be ignored until it leaks, floods or quietly stops working.
- Water heaters. Sediment builds in the tank, the anode rod sacrifices itself, and the temperature and pressure valve is rarely tested. A flush and a check adds years.
- Whole home humidifiers. The pad or panel is a consumable, and a humidifier left running with a clogged pad achieves nothing while still using water.
- Air purification. Media and UV lamps have service lives. A UV lamp still glowing may already have fallen below useful output.
- Controls and zoning. Thermostats drift out of calibration and zone dampers stick. Both cause comfort complaints that get blamed on the equipment.
- Condensate pumps. A small component whose failure puts water on a finished floor.
Worth it, and when it is not
A whole-house program is more than most homes need. It earns its place in specific situations.
- Houses with several systems. Heating, cooling, hot water and air quality across a larger home, where keeping track of what was done when has become genuinely difficult.
- Year-round equipment. Heat pumps and ductless systems run in both seasons and want servicing twice, so a planned schedule is happening whether you formalize it or not.
- Recently installed systems. Where documented annual service is a warranty condition and the equipment is still well inside its term.
- Rental and second properties. Where nobody is on site to notice a small problem becoming a large one.
- Anyone who would rather not think about it. The scheduling is the product as much as the work is.
If you have one furnace and nothing else, this is more than you need. A single annual tune-up covers it, or a service plan if you want the scheduling and the priority handled for you. We would rather point you there than sell you a program you will not use.
These people are fantastic! They truly service the unit. I've watched other companies do nothing but clean the filters. Well worth my contract!
AlGoogle reviewPreventative maintenance questions
Tell us about the house
What equipment is in it, roughly how old, and whether anything has been serviced recently. We will come back with a schedule that fits rather than a package.
Next steps and neighbors
Stop tracking it yourself
We will look at what is in the house, tell you what genuinely needs annual attention and what does not, and build a schedule around it.