Heating Repair in Boca Raton

The first-cold-night failure

There's a reason heat repairs spike on the season's first cold front. Heating equipment that sat unused for months gets its annual workout on the same night as every other system in town, and anything marginal — a heat strip, a control board, a capacitor, a igniter or limit switch on a furnace — picks that night to quit. Add thermostats that were never switched out of cooling mode properly, and you have the classic Florida January.

If your system won't start when it turns cold, check the simple things first: thermostat mode actually set to heat, fresh batteries, and the breaker. Then call us — on cold nights we work the urgent calls first.

Heat pump vs. furnace repairs

Most Boca Raton homes heat with a heat pump, and those failures look like the heat pump page describes: weak heating, ice that never defrosts, or aux heat running nonstop. Homes with gas furnaces — more common than people expect, even here — add combustion-specific failures: igniters, flame sensors, limit switches, and safety shutoffs. A furnace that starts then shuts down in a minute, or one where you smell gas, is a stop-and-call-us situation; with any gas smell, leave the house and call the gas provider's emergency line first.

Heat strips, control boards, sensors, and igniters are the usual suspects, and we verify the repair by measuring actual output — supply temperature and runtime — before we call it done.

Worth repairing, or replacing?

Heating here gets so little annual use that equipment often lasts longer than its cooling-side twin — but when major components fail, repair math changes. A heat strip replacement on a 15-year-old air handler is usually sensible; a failed compressor on a heat pump that old is the end of the line. We'll give you the honest arithmetic for your equipment's age and the failure in front of us.