HVAC Repair in Kenosha, WI
Homes here need heat from October through May and cooling from June through August. If your system quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Kenosha County will get in touch.
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Eleven months of work for your furnace and your AC
Kenosha County only gets a break from heating or cooling for about a month a year. From October through May your furnace carries the load, and on the nights that drop to 18°F it cycles on and off for hours to hold the house steady. Every one of those starts puts wear on the igniter and the ignition control, and those are the parts that tend to fail first, usually on the coldest night of the stretch.
Then summer hands the job to your air conditioner, running June through August against afternoons near 80°F. It is a short season here, so the system sits idle most of the year and then gets asked to work hard with little warning. Kenosha County has logged 19 winter storms and 43 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and power interruptions like those can trip out a furnace's control board or leave a heat pump needing a manual restart once power is back.
- 8 months
- October through May, your system heats
- 3 months
- June through August, it cools
- 18°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 80°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
A new furnace and air conditioner would cut about $120 a year off heating and cooling for a typical Kenosha County home.
Estimates for a typical Kenosha County home, compared with an older unit built to the previous federal minimum, from EIA household energy data, Wisconsin fuel prices and NOAA climate normals. Your home will differ.
Repair makes sense when one part has failed.
Replacement makes sense when the furnace's heat exchanger is cracked, the air conditioner's compressor has failed, or repairs keep coming.
Wisconsin requires contractors to register with the state.
Registration puts a contractor's business on file with the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services. It does not mean anyone tested their work. There is no trade exam behind it, just a record that the business exists. Counties and cities in Wisconsin cannot require their own HVAC license on top of this, so this registration is the only state-level record on a contractor, wherever in the county they are based.
For a repair like this one, that registration confirms the business is on file, nothing more about how the work itself gets done. If the repair touches the gas line, that connection is the part that matters most, and Wisconsin's registration process does not include an inspection of it.
Sources: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau · Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
- Why is my heat not working?
- Start with the thermostat. Make sure it is set to heat and the temperature is set above room temperature, and check that the batteries are not dead. If the thermostat looks right, check the breaker for the furnace and the switch that looks like a light switch near the unit, sometimes it gets bumped off. Gas furnaces will not fire if the pilot light is out or the igniter has failed, and a contractor will need to look at either one. With winter nights here averaging 18°F, a furnace that will not start is worth getting looked at the same day.
- Why is my system running but not cooling the house?
- Check the air filter first. A filter clogged with dust blocks airflow across the coil, and the coil can ice over so the air coming out feels weak or warm. Check the outdoor unit too. If the fan is not spinning or the unit is caked in leaves and debris, air cannot move through it and the system cannot dump heat outside. If the filter is clean and the outdoor unit is clear and you are still getting warm air, the system likely needs a contractor to check the refrigerant charge.
- What can I check before calling for HVAC repair?
- Check the thermostat settings, the batteries, and the breaker for the unit first. These cause a real share of no-heat and no-cool calls and take a minute to rule out. Check the air filter next. A filter that is gray and packed with dust restricts airflow to both the furnace and the air conditioner and can cause problems in either season. If those all check out and the system still is not working, tell the contractor what you checked. It saves time on the visit and helps them get to the actual problem faster.