A neighbourhood of many ages
Fallingbrook was built on farmland starting in 1985 and kept growing for years afterwards. That spread shows up in the basements: furnaces and air conditioners on one street can be a generation older or newer than the ones a few streets over.
Homes from the first years have long since replaced the furnace they were built with. If that replacement went in during the late 1990s or early 2000s, it's now at the age when furnaces commonly start needing major parts. If you're not sure how old yours is, the date is usually on the label inside the furnace door, and the technician can read it for you.
Upstairs too warm, basement too cool
In two-storey houses, heat rises and the bedrooms upstairs run warm in July and can run cool in January. Before anyone suggests new equipment, it's worth checking the simple things: dampers in the ducts, return air from the upstairs rooms, the fan setting and the filter. For a bonus room over the garage that never keeps up, a ductless heat pump is often the cleaner fix.
Side-wall vents and drifting snow
High-efficiency furnaces vent through two plastic pipes in a side wall, and side yards between houses are where snow drifts and gets thrown by the snow blower. If the furnace quits during a storm, check those pipes first. Brush the snow away gently, as Enbridge Gas advises, and call if it doesn't restart.
Close by on Innes Road
Our shop is at 4026 Innes Rd, on the road that forms Fallingbrook's southern edge. Call (613) 801-3078 any hour.