Derek Cole explains why your heating bill spikes in fall and winter. Skipping HVAC maintenance forces backup heat strips or emergency gas to run as your primary heat, driving costs way up. Regular maintenance keeps your main system working and saves money.
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I'm Derek Cole, host of the Derek Cole Podcast and we believe in taking the time to explain how things work for your air at home or your business. And we also believe you deserve clean air in that home. And that is why we founded the Healthy Home Challenge. It's a five day online video series with daily emails, worksheets and even quick action steps you can take to protect you, your family and your co workers. If you haven't joined us yet, you can sign up. It's free to free five day access. You can go to Simmons One Hour Comm. You'll see a link to learn more about indoor air. You've probably known for a while that you need better indoor air at home or at work. After all, we spend 90% of our time indoors these days. Your breakthrough awaits at Simmons one Hour Comm. Now let's get into today's episode. Please listen closely and maybe even take some notes so you can remember these insights of home comfort and energy savings and share this episode with three of your friends because we all need to share better ways to be more comfortable at home. Be sure to tag me or DM me on Instagram Derek Mcole so I can say hi. Thanks again for listening and let's begin.
What is going on with my power bill lately? This winter season, fall season is out of control. It is more than it's ever been. What's happening? That is the question for today. What is happening? Well, with inflation, of course, everything has gone up. But when you go into cooling season, into heating season, if you have not had a maintenance done, you could be running your backup heat, your auxiliary heat, your emergency heat as your primary heat if everything isn't checked out and good to go. We have seen this in more than one situation in which the homeowner thought nothing was wrong. Everything's fine, I got heat. It works. It heats underneath. When I need heat, it has heat. So I didn't think there was a problem. So we come out, do a maintenance check, everything. It turns out the backup heat has been running the entire time. It could be as simple as a heat pump and only heat strips are working. Or it could be a dual fuel system where you have a heat pump and you have a gas furnace, either package or split and your gas could be running, could be running all the time versus your heat pump and your backup heat being the gas. So that's something to pay attention to, make sure is good to go in your system. But we have found it in most occasions on a maintenance, a scheduled maintenance is something that has been found. So make sure if you're experiencing those very very high light bills and you're you're not used to them, something could be going on with the system. Its.
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