Smell gas? Get outside, then call
Emergency Furnace Repair for Biloxi Homes
When the furnace quits in the cold, call us. We make it safe, track down the part that failed and get warm air moving again, with the whole job quoted before we start.
We answer the phone or call back the same working day. Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm.
When the heat stops
Emergency Furnace Repair in Biloxi
Emergency furnace repair gets the heat back on when a residential or commercial furnace quits in the cold, and in Biloxi that tends to happen the night the temperature finally drops.
Our cold snaps are short, so a furnace can sit idle most of the year and then be asked to run hard all at the same time. The failures we see on those nights fall into a handful of patterns:
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It clicks but will not light
The furnace tries to start, the burners never catch or go out right away, and it locks itself out. A worn igniter or a dirty flame sensor is the usual cause.
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It keeps shutting itself off
The burners light, run a little and quit, over and over. That "short cycling" is often a safety switch doing its job because of a choked filter or a blocked vent.
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The fan blows cold air
The blower runs but the air at the registers stays cold, because the burners are not lighting or not staying lit long enough to warm it.
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The rooftop heat is out
Over a shop or an office the heat often comes from a "packaged rooftop unit" with its own gas section, and it fails in the same ways a house furnace does.
Not sure which it is? Tell us what you hear and see, and we take it from there.
Do not wait on these
What Counts as a Furnace Emergency
A gas smell, a sounding CO alarm or no heat in freezing weather is an emergency.
Here is how each shows up in the house, and what it asks of you right now:
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Rotten-egg odor indoors
Utility gas carries an added odor so a leak gets noticed. Flip no switches and light nothing; leave, and call from outside.
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The carbon monoxide alarm is going off
Carbon monoxide has no smell or color, so the alarm is the only warning you get. Headache, dizziness or nausea in several people at the same time points the same way.
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A cold house in a hard freeze
With the furnace dead and the night below freezing, the house loses warmth by the hour, and water pipes in outside walls are at risk.
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A burning smell from the vents
A brief dusty smell at the start of the season is normal. Hot plastic or wiring that lingers is not, so switch the furnace off at the thermostat and leave it off.
When you ring
How an Urgent Heating Call Is Handled
Calls Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm, are answered or returned the same working day, and calls outside those hours are returned the next working morning.
After hours the line goes to voicemail. Leave your address, what the furnace is doing and whether anyone at home is elderly, very young or unwell, so we know who is waiting on the heat.
When we ring you we give you a time to expect us, and we show up when we say we will.
Have this to hand when you call
- Where the furnace sits: a hall closet, the attic, the garage or the roof
- What it does when the thermostat calls for heat: clicks, hums, blows cold or nothing at all
- Whether a light is blinking on the control board, and how many times
- When the filter was last changed
Or dial (228) 364-8743 directly.
Until we get there
What to Do While You Wait
On a gas smell or a CO alarm, get everyone outside and call the gas utility or emergency services; otherwise layer up and keep space heaters clear of anything that burns.
Work down this list while the repair is on its way:
Leave on a gas smell
Leave the doors open behind you and use no phone until you are outside. Make the call from the yard or a neighbor's house.
Fresh air on an alarm
Get everyone, pets too, into fresh air before anything else. Anyone feeling sick needs medical help.
A clear circle round heaters
Open floor all around, away from curtains, bedding and paper, plugged straight into the wall and off when you sleep or go out.
Close off unused rooms
Shut the doors to rooms nobody is in and draw the curtains after dark, so the warmth stays where the people are.
The U.S. CPSC Carbon Monoxide Information Center recommends a CO alarm on every level of the home and lists the signs of poisoning.
From cold registers to warm air
How the Repair Runs
The technician makes the furnace safe, finds the failed part and tests the furnace through a full cycle before calling the job done.
Shut down and look over
Gas and power are turned off at the unit, and the burners, the flue and the wiring get a look before anything is reset.
Trace the fault
The furnace runs its start-up sequence while the technician watches where it stops: the inducer fan, the igniter, the flame sensor or a safety switch.
Price before parts
You hear the whole price before a part is changed, and that price does not grow afterward.
Back on and checked
With the part in, the furnace goes from a call for heat to warm air at the registers and back to off, and the work area is left clean.
Free, no-obligation estimates. (228) 364-8743
What it costs
What an Urgent Furnace Repair Costs
There is no flat emergency price. The figure comes from what the technician finds, and you have it in full before any work begins, with no surprise charges after.
A flame sensor that only needs cleaning is a small job. A failed control board or blower motor on an older "builder-grade" furnace is a bigger job, and sometimes the money is better spent on a new furnace; we tell you which before you decide.
What moves the price
- Which part failed, from a sensor to a control board
- How old the furnace is and how easy its parts are to get
- Where it sits: a closet, an attic or a roof
- A house furnace or a rooftop unit over a business
Free, no-obligation estimates.
Furnace out and the house cooling down? Call us.
Tell us what the furnace is doing and who is at home. We come out, find the fault and quote the whole job before we touch it.
- Free, no-obligation estimates
- We show up when we say we will
- We clean up when the work is done
Calls outside our hours go to voicemail, and we return them the next working morning.