01/28/2019
Advise from a heating professional with Advanced Heating in Warsaw.
-12 degrees for a high! This has never in the history of weather records happened here.
Understand that if these temps hold true it’s very likely many homes will experience heating issues. One of the most common calls I expect to get is that something is wrong with my furnace because the house temperature is falling at the thermostat. That won’t necessarily indicate an issue. We don’t design furnaces for the load your home is going to experience this week. If your furnace was designed to maintain 70 degrees at an outside temperature of 0 then any thing below that temperature and your furnace will not be able to keep up. It will run non stop but you will continue to lose temperature. Many people should expect home temperatures to fall into the mid to lower 60’s during the 96 or so hours of extreme arctic blast. Also if you set you furnace temperature back while sleeping or at work to save energy DON’T do it this week. Put your thermostat into a “hold” mode because your furnace might be able to barely maintain in these extremes but it will not be able to catch back up!
Put on a sweater, throw an extra blanket on your bed and buckle down for some scary cold weather!
