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🍂❄️ Fall Comfort 101: Switching from AC to Heat the Smart Way - Shafer Heating & Cooling · Shafer Heating and Cooling Service Repair Podcast

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  I love this time of year because the heat is subsiding and we're moving into
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  fall and we're going to talk about going from the air conditioning to the heating on today's episode.
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  And my guest today is Nathan Schaefer, a good friend of mine from Schaefer Heating
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  and Cooling. Oh, and you guys do electrical and other stuff as well.
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  That's right. How are you, Jim? Good to see you. I'm doing well, living the dream.
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  Thank you so much for joining me today. Hey, we got a question for you from
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  one of our listeners okay danny and danny's in greenfield his questions his
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  question is nights are getting cooler but afternoons are still warm,
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  is it too early to switch my thermostat over and should i have my furnace checked
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  before i need to and before you answer that question.
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  Some thermostats don't need to be switched over do they uh good point yeah so,
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  in some thermostats you can't have the uh capability the feature to be able
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  to turn it into what they call automatic mode.
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  And obviously some thresholds can be set there, which we take care of.
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  In the program, we set that up so that it's not just constantly kicking back
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  and forth. There's a couple of degrees swing.
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  But basically at my house, I'll set it at, you know, let's just say 70 degrees this time of year.
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  And it'll automatically switch back and forth as needed because yeah,
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  we do have those days where we're wearing shorts during the day and we got hoodies
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  or jackets on, you know, at night and it's chilly and we need some heat to take the edge off.
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  And so it just makes it real easy. You don't forget and go to bed and you wake
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  up cold, right? Or forget when you leave for work the next morning.
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  Oh, shoot. If I turn the AC back on, you come home and it's hot in the house.
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  It just makes it simple and you don't have to worry about that.
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  So that is definitely an option. And some people really like that,
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  you know? And so, yeah, definitely an option.
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  So to his question, should he be just switching it over?
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  Or should he have his furnace checked out? Because that was really his question,
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  right? Like, should I have this thing?
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  Should I have my furnace checked out before I turn my air conditioning off for
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  the year and turn my heat on?
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  Yeah, heat on. Yeah. So definitely a good idea. And so I always like to say
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  to and remind people, so think back to a car, right? We all drive a car.
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  We maintain those vehicles.
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  And it's not so much timing of the year when we do it. It's miles,
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  right? Typically, most of your maintenance records or time you change the oil
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  or do these different things is off of so many miles driven.
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  And so picture your heating and cooling system a lot alike. And so obviously
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  spring and fall times, you have to be transitioning to the next season as a
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  very common time. And we're running a lot of those tape tune up calls.
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  But it's not necessarily something
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  like, hey, that's the only time or the time that I have to do it.
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  As long as you're having that routine maintenance, we like to call full system
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  rejuvenation, right? full cleanings, services, checks on the system,
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  everything checked out for safety performance and all of the above, right?
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  Biannually, once in heating mode, once in cooling mode, that may fall any time in that season.
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  But I mean, if you can do that those two times, that really completely typically
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  protects both you and your comfort, but as well as the health and efficiency of that system.
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  And so, yes, if it has been a while and the system hasn't been checked and we
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  haven't been doing that routinely?
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  Yes, definitely, definitely a good idea. Hey, let's get that checked out before
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  switching it over just to make sure everything is, you know, correct.
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  It's safe, especially depending if it's like a gas furnace, right?
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  Versus electric, let's make sure gas pressures are good. No carbon monoxide,
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  exhaust flues, intakes, everything's good and free there. So definitely some
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  great, some good things there to make sure that they have us check out.
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  I recommend for us in this part of Ohio to have our air conditioning systems
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  look at by April latest, and then our furnace by September.
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  So now we're ready for both those seasons. Does that sound good?
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  Yeah. And once again, we run those checks all year long. So as long as during
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  that season, it'll have to depend on the weather, just different things.
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  As long as it's being done biannually, it doesn't necessarily have to be by,
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  a certain time of the year.
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  We have guys that are in that department that literally every single working
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  day of the year, they're running those tune-up type calls and keeping those
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  systems up and running and efficiently.
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  Nathan, thank you as always for joining me. By the way, everybody,
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  all of Nathan Schaefer's information is located in the description of this podcast.
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  Thank you, my friend. I appreciate your expertise here on the show.
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  Hey, my pleasure. Thank you, Jim.