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We carry igniters, flame sensors and control boards for the furnaces actually installed here since the mid-1990s.
Del Webb built Sun City Roseville between 1995 and 2000. That is 3,110 homes, and most of them still have the furnace that came with the house. Industry service life for a gas furnace is about eighteen years. These are now twenty-five to thirty.
So in Sun City a furnace call is rarely a mystery. It is usually one of a short list of age-related parts, and the real question is whether fixing it makes sense on equipment this old. We tell people plainly which side of that line they are on:
Sun City homes typically have the furnace in an interior closet rather than the attic. Easier access, but the return air is often undersized, which is why so many of these systems have always been loud.
Roseville winters are mild, which sounds like good news and quietly is not. A furnace here runs in short bursts from November through February, so it can limp along half-broken for years, then fail on the first cold snap when every company in Placer County is booked.
What we actually replace, in order of frequency:
Before you call anyone: check the thermostat is on HEAT, the filter is not blocked, the furnace switch on the unit itself is on, and the breaker has not tripped. That covers a surprising share of no-heat calls.
If the furnace runs but the air is cold, work through our checks for a furnace blowing cold air before you call. Half of those calls end at the thermostat or the filter. If it runs for a few minutes and stops, over and over, see why a furnace keeps turning on and off. And if it bangs when the burners light, our guide to furnace noises explains why that one cannot wait. If it does nothing at all, start with our seven checks for a furnace that will not turn on.
Everything above is a budget decision. This one is not.
The heat exchanger is the metal chamber that keeps combustion gases separate from the air blowing into your house. When it cracks, carbon monoxide can enter the airstream. On a furnace past twenty years, and Sun City is full of them, a crack is the failure mode we check for first.
If we find one, we shut the furnace down and show you. We do not repair heat exchangers, and we will not let you run the unit while you think about it. That is not a sales tactic. It is the one call where we would rather lose the job than be wrong.
The honest alternative at that point is a new furnace or, because Roseville winters are this mild, a heat pump that does both heating and cooling with one piece of equipment. We price both.
Roseville is not on SMUD and not on PG&E for electricity. The city runs its own utility, Roseville Electric, and it pays a rebate for replacing gas heat with an electric heat pump. The amount changes, so check the current figure at roseville.ca.us/rebates before you commit, but it is real money and it shifts the arithmetic on an old furnace.
The practical version: if your 1990s furnace needs a board or a blower motor, the repair might cost a third of a new unit. Add the Roseville Electric rebate to the replacement side, and a heat pump that also replaces your aging AC can pencil out better than fixing two old systems one part at a time.
We are based on Westminister Court in Roseville and cover the whole city, from Sun City and Woodcreek to Fiddyment Farm, Westpark and Blue Oaks, across 95661, 95678 and 95747. Permits go through the City of Roseville and we pull them. For summer problems, see AC repair in Roseville; for the full city picture, HVAC in Roseville. For what a new system runs, new HVAC system cost.
Sacramento homes sit on SMUD rather than Roseville Electric, and the rebate picture there is different; see furnace repair in Sacramento.
Not sure whether this is a repair or the end? Our guide to when to replace a furnace covers the four questions we ask.
Deciding between another furnace and a heat pump? Our guide to heat pump vs furnace in Sacramento covers the rebates by utility, Roseville Electric included.
Nearby: furnace repair in Rocklin, Folsom, Citrus Heights and Elk Grove.
The diagnostic is a flat $69 and it goes toward the repair if we do the work. Igniters, flame sensors and pressure switches are inexpensive parts and a short visit. A control board or blower motor on a 25-year-old Sun City furnace is where we price the repair and a replacement side by side.
Most often a worn hot surface igniter, sometimes a dirty flame sensor if it lights and then cuts out after a few seconds. Both are cheap fixes. Before calling, check the thermostat is on HEAT, the filter is clear, the switch on the furnace itself is on, and the breaker has not tripped.
No, and we will not run a furnace with one. The heat exchanger keeps combustion gases out of the air blowing into your home, and a crack can let carbon monoxide through. If we find one we shut the unit down and show you. The options at that point are a new furnace or a heat pump.
Cheap parts, keep repairing. A board or blower motor on a unit that old, get both numbers. Roseville Electric pays a rebate for switching from gas heat to a heat pump, which changes the math, and a heat pump also replaces an aging air conditioner in the same job. Check the current rebate at roseville.ca.us/rebates.
All of it: Sun City, Woodcreek, Diamond Oaks, Highland Reserve, Stoneridge, Fiddyment Farm, Westpark, Blue Oaks and the older streets near Old Town, across ZIP codes 95661, 95678 and 95747. We also cover Rocklin, Granite Bay, Lincoln and Citrus Heights.
