Best Practices for Restoring HVAC After Power Outage
If you lost power yesterday as many in our city did, you can take several basic steps to ensure your heating system is operating properly should it be no longer doing so:
1. Turn off the system at the thermostat. This prevents the system from abruptly starting when power is restored. Sudden feeds of electricity could damage the equipment and shorten its lifetime.
2. When the power is restored, check your circuit breakers. Reset any that were tripped by the power outage. Wait at least 20 minutes after resetting the breakers before adjusting the thermostat for your HVAC system. The reason for doing this is that most refrigerated air heating and cooling systems have internal circuit breakers that will need time to reset. NOTE: The breakers cannot reset if the thermostat is set to power on the system.
3. Your HVAC equipment should operate normally, even through the extreme wind storms and power surges that we had last night.
If you have problems restarting the system or notice any new problems, contact Total Air, and we will send a technician right over. Many times the problem is easy to fix, but you may have a larger problem looming due to damage caused by the surge of electricity before or after the power outage.
Call 915-585-0909 or visit us at www.totalairep.com
