When the heat stops

Heater Repair in Biloxi

Heater repair on residential and commercial systems gets a heat pump, a set of electric heat strips or a gas furnace heating again once it stops.

A heat pump carries the heating and the cooling from one outdoor unit. Electric heat strips sit inside the "air handler", the indoor unit, and warm the air as the blower pushes it past them. A gas furnace burns fuel in a closet or the attic and has its own blower and safety controls.

The heat sits idle most of the year in Biloxi, so a fault often waits through the summer and shows up on the first cold night. Whichever system you have, the repair starts with finding out why it stopped, not with guessing at parts.

heater repair in a Biloxi home

What we work on

Heat Pumps, Heat Strips and Furnaces

These are the heating systems we repair, whichever one your house runs on.

  • Heat pumps

    One outdoor unit both heats and cools, which many homeowners like. When it stops heating, the fault can sit in the outdoor unit, the indoor unit or the controls between them.

  • Electric heat strips

    Coiled heating elements in the air handler warm the air on its way to the vents. A burned-out element or the control that switches it leaves the house blowing cool air.

  • Gas furnaces

    The burners, the igniter and the flame safety checks share one cabinet. When one of them fails, the furnace will not light, or it lights and shuts itself back off.

  • Auxiliary heat

    "Auxiliary heat", the backup or emergency heat, helps a heat pump through deep cold. Modern heat pumps keep full capacity down to about 25°F, so backup heat that runs often has a cause worth finding.

Signs to watch for

Signs the Heat Is Failing

Any one of these points to a heating fault, and each is worth a call before the next cold night.

  • Cold air from the vents The system runs, but the air at the registers never warms up.
  • Auxiliary heat runs often The thermostat shows backup or emergency heat on most cold nights, not only the coldest.
  • A tripping breaker The heater's breaker trips when the heat comes on, or soon after.
  • A burning smell More than the light dusty smell of the first cold morning, or one that does not fade.

From the call to a warm house

How Heater Repair Runs

The technician tests the system, finds the failed part, repairs it and runs the heat through a full cycle, and you have the price before any part is replaced.

  1. Test the system

    We start with the thermostat, the breaker and the airflow, then test the heat pump, the heat strips or the furnace with the heat called for.

  2. Find the failed part

    The readings point to the part that quit, whether a strip element, an igniter or a heat pump part, and we show you what we found.

  3. Quote, then repair

    We quote the whole job before we start, with no surprise charges after. Once you say go, the failed part is repaired or replaced.

  4. Run a full cycle

    Before leaving, the technician runs the heat through a full cycle to confirm the house warms properly. We clean up when the work is done.

Call for a Free Estimate

We show up when we say we will. (228) 364-8743

Related Heating and Cooling Work

Some heating calls turn out to be a different job, and each of those has its own page. When a heater is past repair, a new system is covered under AC installation, since a heat pump replaces the heating and the cooling together.

What you can count on

  • We answer the phone or call back the same working day
  • We show up when we say we will
  • We quote the whole job before we start, with no surprise charges after
  • We clean up when the work is done

House still cold? Call us.

Tell us what the heater is doing. We come out, find the fault and quote the repair before any work begins.

  • No surprise charges after the quote
  • Monday to Saturday, 7 am to 6 pm
  • We show up when we say we will

Calls outside those hours go to voicemail and we return them the next working morning.

Call (228) 364-8743