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If you have a gas furnace, it is essential to understand that your furnace may produce some carbon monoxide that is released outside your home through the furnace’s vent. Prescott Air Conditioning explains testing for harmful gases in your Prescott home’s furnace.

Carbon monoxide is an odorless and colorless gas that can cause disorientation, flu-like symptoms, confusion, and even death.

While a clean, efficiently burning gas furnace produces very tiny amounts of carbon monoxide, a dirty, inefficiently burning one can produce deadly amounts of the gas.

Newer gas furnaces are equipped with many features that shut the furnace off when a problem is detected. Older furnaces do not usually have these safety devices.

Prescott Air Conditioning recommends these safeguards:

• Have your furnace cleaned and checked every year by a certified technician, prior to the onset of the heating season. Your contractor should examine your furnace for small cracks in the combustion chamber. While they may not be visible to the eye, it is through these cracks that carbon monoxide can leak into your home. Your contractor also will lubricate the motors and bearings.
• Change your furnace filter regularly. The filter is usually found inside the front cover of the furnace. It may have its own access door on the front of the furnace. A clean filter will help keep dust from being circulated through your home. It will also will help your furnace burn more efficiently.
• Install a carbon monoxide (CO) alarm in your home.
• Keep the burner area of your furnace clean.
• Keep the area around your furnace clean and unobstructed.

Prescott Air Conditioning wants to make sure you are warm and safe this winter by having your Prescott home’s furnace checked for harmful gases. To schedule a preventative maintenance check-up for your heating unit, call the professionals at Prescott Air Conditioning at 928-308-1254.