Furnace repair and carbon monoxide checks in Paw Paw, MI 49079

Paw Paw is the county seat of Van Buren County, with an older village core and newer homes on the edges of town. Our technicians cover it from Kalamazoo for furnace repair, heat exchanger inspections and carbon monoxide safety checks. A lot of the furnaces we open here have been running for two decades or more, and age changes what we look for on every visit.

A cracked heat exchanger, a blocked flue or a backdrafting water heater can let combustion gases into living space. None of those problems announce themselves with a loud noise. That is why a furnace repair visit from us always includes a look at the burners, the flue path and a carbon monoxide reading near the equipment, not just the part that failed.

Older village homes and long-serving furnaces

Homes near the center of Paw Paw include older houses that have been updated in stages, often with a gas furnace added to replace an earlier system and ducts routed wherever they would fit. Those furnaces tend to sit in tight basements next to a gas water heater sharing the same chimney. When one of them is replaced and the other is not, the chimney liner can end up wrong for the remaining appliance, which causes poor draft.

Newer homes around town usually have high-efficiency furnaces that vent through plastic pipe out the side wall. Those vents can freeze shut or get buried by drifting snow, and the furnace then locks out on a pressure switch. Our heat exchanger inspections cover both styles: we look inside the exchanger with a camera where access allows, test draft, and check every vent termination outside the house so nothing is missed between the furnace and the open air.

Closed-up winter houses and combustion safety

Paw Paw winters keep doors and windows shut for months, and lake-effect snow rolls in from the west on many storms. A tight house with the furnace running long cycles is exactly when a venting problem matters most, because there is little fresh air to dilute anything that leaks. Snow piling against side-wall vents is a common winter cause of a furnace shutting down. After a heavy storm, it is worth walking outside and clearing snow away from the intake and exhaust pipes.

How we reach Paw Paw

Paw Paw calls are dispatched from our Kalamazoo office at 327 S Rose Street, a straight drive west along I-94. The line at (269) 360-5258 is answered 24/7, holidays included. If you describe a smell of exhaust, a sounding CO alarm or a furnace flame that looks lazy and yellow, we will tell you what to do right away for safety before setting up the visit.