Bartlett Heating and Air Talks About Carbon Monoxide

Most homes in the Midwest have a furnace in them. Gas furnaces are great to heat your home with but they must be kept up with and maintained each year. One of the biggest reasons it must be maintained each year is the fact that it can leak out carbon monoxide.Your furnaces heat exchanger produces and traps the harmful gas inside. If your heat exchanger gets cracked, the carbon monoxide leaks out into your home. Carbon monoxide is a gas that cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled. You can’t detect carbon monoxide without a detector. The home ones are made to go off when the carbon monoxide has reached already dangerous levels. The carbon monoxide detector HVAC technicians use during inspection is much more sensitive to carbon monoxide than the home detectors. This means that the tech can catch a carbon monoxide leak and get it taken care of before it because a much larger issue. No carbon monoxide leak is a safe amount, any leak needs to be taken care of promptly. Carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms are often confused with flu symptoms and include headache, dizziness, nausea, and weakness. If you are sleeping you will not feel the symptoms until it is too late. This is why it is important to have carbon monoxide detectors in your home. Everyone can be harmed by carbon monoxide poisoning but it affects children and elderly much faster and at a lower dosage. If you feel any of these symptoms or see family members who might show the symptoms make sure to get to clear air right away and get to a medical professional. The faster you can catch the carbon monoxide poisoning the better. You can protect your family from carbon monoxide poisoning by having carbon monoxide detectors in your home on each floor. If you are using a generator DO NOT have it in your home. Make sure the generator is outside, not even in your garage. Never start and let your car run in a closed garage because that produces carbon monoxide that can get into your home and affect your family. It is best to not warm the car up in the garage door open or closed. The best thing you can do is to have your furnace maintained each fall! Call Bartlett Heating and Air for your furnace inspection. The first thing we do here at Bartlett Heating and Air is check for carbon monoxide, if it passes the carbon monoxide test then we fully inspect and clean your furnace. Call us today!