Your furnace creates the airflow to conduct heat in your home. Although technology has improved allowing for quieter heater operation, it’s somewhat impossible to make the furnace completely silent since it’s producing heat from the airflow. However, this does not mean that a whistling furnace is normal.
When you hear a whistling sound that sounds awfully like a high-pitched tuning fork, it could be due to the airflow escaping somewhere in the system that it shouldn’t be. This could be caused by anything from a loose connection in the ducts or something that is rebuilt in the furnace that may possess more power than the previous component, such as a rebuilt fan.
The high-pitched sound coming through your ducts could also be a sign of low return airflow. This means that your system’s blower is trying to pull in a certain amount of air, but it is incapable of doing so. This increases the pressure and velocity and creates an unpleasant squealing sound.
The Importance of Having a Professional Fix Your Heater
For safety and monetary reasons, it’s best to contact a heating professional to fix the unnecessary and annoying whistling sound that may be occurring in your furnace. Listed below are the main reasons why we advise contacting a professional to fix your heater:
- Safety: If you are unsure of where the air is leaking out of, or if you don’t have the proper equipment or overall knowledge of how to fix it, it could cause unnecessary injuries. The combination of high air pressure and quickly moving fans isn’t an ideal scenario to try to fix your heater by yourself. At Precision Heating & Air, we’re the experts you can trust to find the area that causes the whistling and repair it quickly.
- Money: If the hot air from your heater or furnace is leaking out, you could be spending more on your utility bills than necessary. Let Precision Heating & Air fix your whistling heater, so it operates efficiently and so you can avoid expensive heating costs.
What Can I Do to Keep My Heater from Whistling?
Even though we advise you to have a professional fix your heater, there are proactive measures that you can take that could potentially decrease the whistling sound. Below are some of the items we recommend you do to help lessen the high-pitched sound:
- Clean the debris from the ducts. This may be causing a blocked return vent, thus creating a whistling sound.
- Your supply vents may be blocked or shut off. Go to each room and open all the vents, even in the rooms you don’t use. Make sure that no furniture or household items are covering the vents.
- Keep your doors open throughout the house. Your system needs to flow through your house instead of being blocked off.
Contact Precision Heating & Air to Resolve Your Whistling Heater
Heating Service & Repair for Dallas, Acworth, Kennesaw, Marietta, Hiram & Douglasville, Georgia
You don’t have to live with the annoyance of a whistling heater or the potential added cost of an inefficient furnace.
Contact us by phone at (770) 758-4552 or by filling out our online form. We look forward to hearing from you and getting you one step closer to a peaceful and comfortable home!
