Our home has an electric furnace as the central heater, and we’ve always been on time for HVAC equipment servicing.
When we decided to buy a mobile home and move away from our house for a few months as a change of scenery, we got the heating contractor to install a gas furnace.
I didn’t think it would fit within the small space, but heating technology can be surprising because the heating and cooling system differed from what would be used in a typical home. The heating and cooling provider told me that the furnace had been made to ensure that it was safe with closed combustion, and it made sense. I hadn’t even thought of the fire hazard of the central heater I had in mind. We bought and installed the unit and moved away. Then came the challenge of finding an HVAC technician who’d handle furnace/heater tune-up for our mobile home. Unlike back home, we knew how to change the furnace filter because we had to do it every month because of the dirt we collected in the open. We only got a reliable repairman because of the friends I’d made at the playground who recommended the company they’d bought their boiler from and their experts who’d done a good boiler repair job. Our mobile home was okay, the heating was working as it should, and our cooling needs were not as necessary, so we didn’t bother. By the next servicing, we’d be back home, but we were not going to move with the home because we wanted to keep it in the exact location until we saved to move it elsewhere. It’s been fantastic.