If the house is cold and there is a baby or someone elderly in it, stop reading and call. Everything else on this page can wait.
We will tell you what it usually is, what it usually costs, whether it can wait until morning — and the one thing worth checking yourself before you pay anyone to drive out.
Diagnostic call-out is $110 weekday, $180 evenings and weekends. It comes off the repair if you go ahead the same visit.
A twelve-year-old furnace with a dead igniter is a $260 fix, not a $6,000 decision. We will not use a cold house as leverage.
It happens more than any of us admit. If we drive out and it is a blocked filter, you pay the call-out and nothing else, and we will show you how to change it.
They are excellent in the right house. In a 1950s bungalow with original windows they disappoint, and we would rather lose the sale than fit one.