{"id":491,"date":"2014-10-20T20:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrieheatingcooling.ca\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2026-01-13T09:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:07:06","slug":"how-often-should-i-get-my-furnace-maintained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrieheatingcooling.ca\/blog\/how-often-should-i-get-my-furnace-maintained\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How often should I get my furnace maintained?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barrieheatingcooling.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Toms-phone-aug-2013-422.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52 alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 15px;\" title=\"open furnace\" src=\"http:\/\/barrieheatingcooling.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Toms-phone-aug-2013-422-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Customers often ask us this question and the simple answer is, yes, your <a href=\"\/hvac-services\/furnaces-barrie\">furnace<\/a> should be maintained annually. &#8220;An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.&#8221;\u00a0Technicians will not only clean, but also inspect the furnace for safe operation. They will test numerous <a href=\"\/hvac-services\/furnaces-barrie\">furnace<\/a> components and recommend replacing any that may fail in the near future. This is called preventative <a href=\"\/hvac-services\/comfort-club\">maintenance<\/a>. Preventative maintenance will save you time and money in the long run.\u00a0There are usually coupons or promotions that make this annual <a href=\"\/hvac-services\/comfort-club\">maintenance<\/a> affordable and far less expensive that a service call on a cold snowy night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers often ask us this question and the simple answer is, yes, your furnace should be maintained annually. &#8220;An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.&#8221;\u00a0Technicians will not only clean, but also inspect the furnace for safe operation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barrieheatingcooling.ca\/blog\/how-often-should-i-get-my-furnace-maintained\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[109,22,86,192,191],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furnace","tag-cleaning","tag-furnace-2","tag-maintenance","tag-service","tag-tune-up"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;How often should I get my Barrie furnace maintained?&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Heating &amp; 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