Furnace, Heat Pump & Air Conditioning Services
As one of the Cochrane Area premium furnace companies, Prairie Seashell Contracting is licensed for local HVAC services. Here is a quick glance at a short list of our services:
Emergency furnace repair
Furnace tune up
Heating and air repair
HVAC cleaning
HVAC repair
Annual furnace checkups are not about keeping employees busy during the slow times in summer. It is about saving money and protecting your family from potential harm by making sure you don’t have to call us in a panic about a furnace repair problem in the busy season when everyone else is crying for help.
Regular Maintenance & Systems Check
What you get from a regular furnace maintenance appointment is a series of efficiency-enhancing and safety-assuring steps that allow you to sleep easy until the flowers come up again in spring. We feel that regular hvac service extends the life of your heating system and eliminates the need for premature hvac installation.
Naturally, every furnace inspection will include the basics such as replacing the filter and vacuuming out potentially-fire-causing dust bunnies from the crevices of the home’s heating system.
Efficient Heating Systems Save Money
Most people understand that your typical forced air furnace requires regular preventative maintenance in order to keep functioning at top efficiency. Deferring this maintenance may sometimes be a temporary necessity, but it comes at the risk of eventual systemic failure. It is, in other words, a gamble– one where the odds against you increase every time you choose to defer service.
Some people choose to ignore the annual furnace maintenance recommendations in their owner’s manual and end up enjoying a trouble-free heating season with no problems whatsoever. Other times, you could wake up to a freezing house with burst water pipes. This leaves you at the mercy of an emergency service call during the HVAC contractor’s busiest time of the year. These are the risks of not performing annual furnace service.
It doesn’t take much for one or more of these problems to add up to a much higher heating bill each year. In the worst case scenario, annual inspection can even save your family from a truly life-threatening situation. These aren’t the same sort of risks you run when you try to squeeze an extra summer out of the old lawn mower. If you have a newer home, you can probably get by with a biennial inspection, but for everyone else you need to do the right thing for your family at least once a year and set up an appointment with one of our heating technicians.
Brands We Offer
Flexible Payment Plans For Your Heating System
What is Radiant Heating
Most homes are heated with a forced air furnace or by electric baseboards. There are other heating methods as well, but here we will focus on radiant in-floor heating and boilers.
Radiant in-floor heat involves the use of low-temperature heating elements within walls and floors. The heating elements warm the floor which in turn warms the entire living space. Advantages include reduced heating costs and a decrease in airborne particles due to lower air circulation – a boon to allergy sufferers. Also, the warmth of the floors will keep occupants warm far longer in the event of a power interruption.
Using Boilers for Radiant Heat
Though some in floor radiant heat systems are powered by electricity, more common are systems that use water heated in a boiler, which itself can be fired by gas, oil or electricity. We have years of experience with both residential and commercial boiler installation, maintenance and repair.
Boiler Maintenance
Boilers are reliable workhorses, but a lack of maintenance can result in leaking of poisonous carbon monoxide and possibly even an explosion. Proper maintenance is, therefore, essential. Despite the need for stringent maintenance boilers provide the most economical means of delivering large volumes of hot water.
Different boilers have different maintenance procedures and we always follow the manufacturer’s recommendations. Boiler service should always be performed by qualified personnel and our boiler technicians can advise you on the correct service requirements for your boiler.
Our boiler services include:
- Complete visual inspection
- Pipe and flue inspection
- Testing water pressure
- Testing water temperature
- Check system diagnostics and error codes
- Boiler flushing
- Annual maintenance programs
Boiler Repair
Our technicians are experts at boiler service and will have any defective boiler back up and running in the shortest possible time. If you have a boiler in your home or business, or wish to have one installed anywhere in the Cochrane/Calgary area.
Prairie Seashell Contracting is the only name you need to know for expert installation, maintenance and repairs.
Quality work you can count on from beginning to end
Air Conditioning
When it comes to home comfort during the warmer months in Canada, your central air conditioner plays a huge role. Peak summer temperatures are inevitable, which means that you’ll rely on your air conditioner – it’s a seasonal occurrence . However, air conditioner repairs are a little more difficult to predict. It’s tough to know when an air conditioner will quit working, is on its last legs, or when it will completely become useless, but it’s a very real possibility if you use an older air conditioner, especially one that’s been around more than 10 years.
It seems like normally, central air conditioners decide to stop operating when it’s most inconvenient for you and that usually ends up on one of the hottest days of the year – of course. Let’s not forget that it ends up happening when you’re expecting visitors for the weekend or already have people staying with you. That’s just how it goes, and the team at Prairie Seashell Contracting understand that. If you need AC repair service simply call us.
Keep yourself and your budget cool this summer with flexible payments from Financeit
About the Name PS Contracting
You may think that Prairie Seashell is an unusual name for a plumbing company. It was originally the name of my families 38 foot sail boat “The Prairie Seashell”, which was built over 12 years in the backyard of my families Calgary home. My father and mother in law created the name and spent 8 winters sailing her around Mexico. In honor of my father in law, we decided to continue the name and his legacy of care and commitment. But instead of on the high seas I will bring that care and commitment to the passion that I have always had for making project dreams a reality.
