Furnace Repair in Mason, OH
Furnaces here run from October through April. If yours quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Warren County will get in touch.
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Mason winters keep your furnace running for months at a stretch
From October through April, seven months straight, your furnace is what stands between your house and a 25 degree night. It cycles on and off to hold the temperature, and each start puts wear on the igniter and the flame sensor. Eventually one of them fails, usually on a cold night when the burner won't light at all.
Warren County has seen 142 damaging wind events and 14 winter storms over the past ten years. When the power drops, a gas furnace with electric ignition won't restart on its own. It needs to be reset before it fires again.
- 7 months
- October through April, your furnace is on duty
- 25°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 53%
- of homes here heat with gas, so most furnaces here burn gas
- 14 winter storms
- in ten years, the nights a failure hurts most
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new furnace would cut about $140 a year off heating for a typical Warren County home.
Estimates for a typical Warren County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Ohio fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
Repair makes sense when one part has failed and the heat exchanger is sound.
Replacement makes sense when the heat exchanger is cracked or the furnace keeps needing parts.
In Ohio, HVAC licensing for homes is left to the counties.
Warren County sets its own rule on who can do HVAC work on a home. Ohio leaves that decision to the counties, so there is no state license behind the contractor, no state test, no state record kept in Columbus. Ohio does set one thing statewide. A home contractor has to carry at least $250,000 in liability insurance to count as one under state definition. That is not a license and nobody was tested to meet it. It is an insurance floor.
For a furnace repair, the part that matters most is the gas connection, since that is where a mistake turns dangerous. Whether that gets checked here depends on Warren County's own rule, not a state licensing board, because Ohio does not run one for this trade. In Warren County, 53.2% of homes heat with gas, so this repair means working on the part of the system that carries fuel.
Source: Ohio Legislative Service Commission
- Why won't my furnace turn on?
- Most often the thermostat is not calling for heat the way you think it is, or power to the furnace has been cut off somewhere along the line. Check that the thermostat is set below room temperature and has fresh batteries if it uses them. Check the furnace switch, which looks like a light switch near the unit, and the breaker for it. If those are fine, the igniter or the flame sensor may have failed, and that calls for a contractor to look at it.
- Why is my furnace blowing cold air?
- If air is moving but it is not warm, the furnace may be running the blower without the burners lighting. That happens when the igniter has failed, the flame sensor is dirty, or the gas valve is not opening. It can also mean the thermostat fan is set to "on" instead of "auto", which pushes air through even between heating cycles. Nights here average 25°F, so a furnace stuck like this needs attention the same day.
- Why won't my furnace pilot light stay lit?
- A pilot light that keeps going out usually means the thermocouple has worn out and is no longer sensing the flame correctly, so the gas valve shuts back off. A draft reaching the pilot or a dirty pilot orifice can cause the same thing. This is a gas part, so it is worth having a contractor replace the thermocouple rather than relighting it over and over through the winter.