Emergency Heating Repair

During a hard valley cold snap the gap between no heat and burst plumbing is measured in hours, not days, so treat it as an emergency and call.

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When this becomes an emergency

The heat has been off for hours and the overnight low is deep below zero.
A carbon monoxide alarm went off, or the house smells of exhaust.
Water lines along an outside wall or in an unheated porch have already stopped flowing.
The furnace is smoking, or there's a hot electrical smell coming from it.

What a pro does

The call gets sorted by risk before it gets sorted by order of arrival. Anything suggesting combustion products in the living space or an electrical fault gets the fastest response along with instructions to get out of the house, and a plain no-heat call in a deep freeze still ranks ahead of routine service because the plumbing is on a countdown once the interior temperature starts falling. Houses with basement boilers and radiators hold heat longer than a forced-air house does, which changes the advice you'll get on the phone. Tell the dispatcher whether any faucet has already quit running.

Frequently asked questions

Which pipes freeze first when the heat goes out?

Anything in an exterior wall, a crawlspace, an unheated porch, or a rim joist area near the foundation. Interior lines in the middle of the house last much longer.

Does a house with radiators stay warm longer than one with forced air?

Generally yes. All that iron and water holds heat for a while after the burner quits, which buys some time but doesn't remove the risk.

Is it worth shutting the water off during an outage?

If the house is cooling toward freezing and nobody can stay there, closing the main and opening the taps to drain limits the damage if a line does let go.

What makes a call genuinely urgent versus merely inconvenient?

Any alarm, smell of exhaust, or smoke is urgent. So is a total loss of heat in subzero weather. A single cold room or a new noise generally isn't.

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