Tips to Safely Heat Your Home This Winter

Each year over 20,000 people end up in the ER because of carbon monoxide poisoning. The odorless, colorless gas is known as the silent killer because it’s practically undetectable without a carbon monoxide detector. 

Carbon monoxide, as confirmed by the CDC, is given off by stoves, gas ranges, boilers, furnaces, and fireplaces so it only makes sense that carbon monoxide poisoning climbs during the colder months when people are trying to heat their homes. To help keep you safe, Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts is here with a couple tips to safety warm your home. 

  • Install a CO detector on every floor of your home and change the batteries annually. 
  • Keep all possible sources of combustion, such as paper, clothing, bedding, or rugs, a distance over three feet away from furnaces, space heaters, fire places, or stoves. 
  • Before starting a fire in the fireplace, always check to ensure the chimney damper is open and unclogged. 
  • Do not leave portable heaters or fireplaces unattended. Turn off space heaters and ensure all embers in the fireplace are completely extinguished before leaving either heating source unattended. 
  • Space heaters should always be positioned on the floor, and on a hard, nonflammable surface, like ceramic tile. Keep kids and animals away from space heaters. 
  • When buying a new space heater, buy a model that turns off automatically if the heater falls over. 
  • Don’t use a cooking range to heat your home. 
  • Have all stoves, fireplaces, chimneys, and all types of furnaces professionally inspected and cleaned every year. 

The ideal thing you can do for your heating equipment is to make sure it’s not only all set to keep your family warm all winter but also safe, is to set-up your fall tune-up. During your heating tune-up, Bryant Heating & Cooling Service Experts will check to make sure your furnace is operating safely with a complete multi-point inspection and cleaning. Call 226-773-3357 today and ask how you can save on a furnace tune-up through November 25th. 

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