HVAC Repair in Wenatchee, WA
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Ten months of heat, and winter nights near 22°F
Your furnace in Chelan County works from September through June. That is ten months of the year it has to fire up, and on winter nights that average 22°F, it runs long and often to keep the house warm. Most homes here heat with electricity, so the strain shows up on the electric furnace or heat pump itself, not a gas line.
Summer asks little of a cooling system, with afternoons averaging just 72°F. The bigger risk to your system in Chelan County is the weather that comes through in winter. The area has logged 118 winter storms and 29 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and in Washington, nearly a quarter of households lost power for at least a day in 2024. When the power drops on a cold night and comes back, an electric furnace or heat pump should restart on its own. If yours does not, that is a sign something needs a look.
- 10 months
- September through June, your system heats
- 22°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 72°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
Washington requires contractors to register with the state.
Registration puts the business on file with the state's Department of Labor and Industries. There is no trade exam behind it, so the number tells you the business is on record, not that anyone checked its work.
For a repair to your heating and cooling system, that record is what exists in Washington and nothing more. No state license backs the person doing the work, so what protection there is comes from elsewhere, in whatever the permitting and inspection process requires for this kind of job where you live.
Source: Washington State Legislature
- Why is my heat not working?
- Most of the time it comes down to power to the unit, the thermostat setting, or the igniter not lighting the burners. Check that the thermostat is set to heat and a few degrees above room temperature, and check the breaker for the furnace. If the furnace is electric, which is how most homes here heat, a tripped breaker or a home still without power after an outage is the first thing to rule out. If power and the thermostat both check out and you still have no heat, the igniter or a safety switch is likely stopping it from lighting, and that needs a contractor to look at it.
- Why is my system running but not cooling the house?
- If the blower is running but the air is not cold, the problem is usually the refrigerant charge, a coil that has iced over, or airflow blocked by a dirty filter. Start with the filter. A filter clogged with dust chokes off airflow across the coil, and the coil can ice over as a result, which stops the air from cooling at all. If the filter is clean and you still get warm air, that points to a refrigerant leak or a compressor problem, and that repair takes a contractor with gauges to diagnose.
- What can I check before calling for HVAC repair?
- Check the thermostat first. Make sure it is set to the right mode and the temperature is actually set past where the room is. Then check the breaker box for a tripped breaker or blown fuse feeding the unit, since a lot of no-heat and no-cool calls trace back to power that never made it to the unit. Check the filter too. A filter packed with dust will choke a furnace or air conditioner down to where it barely runs. If those all look fine and the system still is not working, that's when it's a job for a contractor to diagnose.