458. Burning Smell?
28 Jan 2026 · 2 min
When you turn on heat after summer, burning smell usually means dust on electric heat strips is burning off, not a fire. Derek Cole explains why this happens on heat pumps and recommends a maintenance visit to clean the system and check 84 points before winter.
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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. 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.
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What's up everyone? Derek Cole here. Welcome back to the podcast and it is finally getting cooler. So second morning in a row for us currently at the at this time of cool mornings.
We had a freeze false advisory yesterday and this morning's an another good 35 degrees. So just to remind you about the.
Happy heat restoration, a lot of you with heat pumps have turned your heat on and you had that burning smell. It smelled like something was on fire.
When in reality it was your heat.
Strips on your heat pump getting activated.
But there is no fire.
Probably there is no fire, there's nothing to worry about.
But the heat strips are your backup heat source and the first time that.
Gets activated in months it's gonna burn.
Off that, you know, excess dust and.
Different things that's happened over the long summer.
So the best thing to do is get the service, get it checked, make sure everything is good to go, get the happy heat restoration to make sure you're good for the winter. And we give you a six breakdown free guarantee with that happy restoration. It's the complete 84 up to 84 points depending on if you have gas or electric. Up to 84 point checklist is done. And we also clean that outdoor coil which is important on these heat pumps because you're also using the outdoor unit with the heat pump. You're also using the outdoor unit so you want to make sure it's good to go. It's been a long hot summer. A lot of grass has been mowed, a lot of things have gotten on the coal. It's time to get it cleaned, get it maintenance, get it checked to make sure you're good for the upcoming fall and winter season. So head over to simmons1hour.com click on the link for the happy restoration. But of course if you have any questions, let me know. Foreign.
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