Alliance Comfort Services

Heating repair in Raleigh, NC

Go outside on a cold morning and look at the outdoor unit. If it is running, your heater is a heat pump, and it is the same machine that cools the house in July. If it sits dead still, you have a furnace. That one observation decides what a no-heat call is about, so start there. Either way, heating repair in Raleigh, NC begins with the same phone call.

Call (919) 510-1472

In a lot of Raleigh homes, the heater and the air conditioner are the same machine

A heat pump is not a separate heater. It is your air conditioner running its refrigerant cycle backwards, pulling heat out of cold outdoor air and moving it inside.The EIA's 2020 residential energy survey put roughly four in ten North Carolina homes on heat pump heating.

That changes what a no-heat call means. A January no-heat problem and a July no-cool problem can trace back to the same outdoor unit, sometimes to the same failed part. It also means the page you need may not be this one.

Which equipment do you have

Ten seconds outside settles it, and it decides which of these pages is worth your time.

The outdoor unit is running
You have a heat pump, and the same outdoor unit cools the house in summer. Winter no-heat calls on this equipment come down to a short list, the reversing valve, the defrost board, the electric backup heat, and refrigerant loss, and all four are covered at heat pump repair in Raleigh.
The outdoor unit sits dead still all winter
You have a furnace, and something in a closet, an attic, or a crawlspace is burning gas to heat the house. Ignitors, flame sensors, pressure switches, heat exchangers, and safety lockouts all live at furnace repair in Raleigh.
Both, depending on how cold it is
That is a dual fuel system, a heat pump with a gas furnace behind it, handing over when the temperature drops far enough. Either page above can apply, so start with whichever one was running when the heat quit.

And if the real question is repair or replace, the answer differs by equipment. For a gas furnace it is on the furnace repair page. For a heat pump, which is also your air conditioner, it is on AC installation and replacement in Raleigh.

Not sure which of the three you have? Describe what the outdoor unit is doing and a licensed contractor will tell you in a minute.

Some of what looks like a failure is not

Steam rolling off the outdoor unit on a cold morning is a defrost cycle finishing normally. Air from the vents that feels cool against your hand is also normal, because a heat pump delivers a lower supply temperature than a furnace does, over longer run times.

Frost on the coil is fine if it clears within a cycle. Frost that never clears is worth a call.

One licensed contractor, one phone number

Alliance Comfort Services LLC is licensed in North Carolina, number L.34059, through the NC State Board of Examiners of Plumbing, Heating & Fire Sprinkler Contractors. The heating classifications are Heating Group 2 Contractor and Heating Group 3 - Class I Contractor.

That license belongs to the person doing the work, not to a corporate office. There is one number on this page, it does not route through a dispatch center, and a licensed contractor picks it up at any hour of any day, holidays included. Most of Raleigh gets same day service. The Google rating is 5.0 from 25 reviews.

The diagnosis, the price and the repair all come from the same person, which is the whole of the argument.

$59 System Tune-Up

New customers. Nobody can price a heating repair before the system has been tested, because what decides it is which part failed. If your heat still works and you would rather not have that conversation in January, this is a full inspection before the season turns.

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Common questions

How do I know if I have a heat pump or a furnace?
Look at the outdoor unit on a cold morning. Running means a heat pump. Dead still all winter, while something in a closet, attic, or crawlspace fires up, means a gas furnace. If you cannot get outside, the data plate on the indoor unit is the other place to check, and a gas line running into it settles it.
Why is my heat pump blowing cool air?
Look at the outdoor unit first. If the indoor blower is moving air while the outdoor unit sits dead, the compressor side has stopped. If both are running and the air is merely cool rather than cold, that is usually normal supply temperature for a heat pump.
My power bill jumped in January but the house feels fine. Is something wrong?
Often, yes. That is the signature of the electric backup heat carrying the whole house while the compressor contributes nothing, and because the house stays warm, nothing feels wrong until the bill arrives. Worth a call before the next one.

What customers say

5.0 out of 5, from 25 reviews on Google

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No heat in Raleigh?

A house with no heat on a freezing night is not a next-week problem, and emergency HVAC service in Raleigh is this same number at 2am that it is at 2pm. Everything else we cover in the city is on the Raleigh HVAC page.

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