The modern gas-powered furnace is built to be safe. There are stringent safety measures that these systems have to meet in order to be released to the consumer market. We start here because we want to make sure that we don’t worry anyone unnecessarily about their gas furnace. If it was installed in your home, it was made to run safely!
However, there are issues that your furnace can develop due to old age and large amounts of wear and tear that can cause it to become dangerous. The easy way to avoid this is, of course, to schedule yearly maintenance and to replace your furnace when it reaches “retirement age,” before it can develop a major problem.
What are these scary issues that your furnace can develop? Let’s take a look at the main three:
You just got the mail and you see that there is a bill from the energy company in the stack. Normally this would just be status quo, but lately, those monthly bills have been sending you reeling. If you are afraid to open that envelope and see what your monthly dues are, then we need you to know that this is not a normal situation. Unless you’ve been using your heater to power your home and your neighbors your energy bills should not be that bad!