Yes. Furnace maintenance is included in our Care Club membership, which covers heating, cooling, and plumbing together rather than selling you a separate agreement for each system.

What the Furnace Side Covers

The membership includes a fall heating visit timed before the first freeze, which is when it does the most good.

That visit covers heat exchanger inspection, combustion analysis, gas pressure measurement and adjustment, burner cleaning, igniter and flame sensor service, safety control testing, blower inspection and amp draw, venting check, and a temperature rise measurement verified against the manufacturer’s specification.

The temperature rise number is the one that tells you whether the furnace is genuinely operating correctly rather than merely running. Outside spec means an airflow or firing rate problem.

Full details are on the Care Club page.

Why the Heat Exchanger Inspection Matters Most

Everything above is useful. One item is a safety check.

A heat exchanger separates combustion gases from the air circulating through your home. When it cracks — from age, metal fatigue, or overheating caused by a restricted filter — carbon monoxide can enter your supply air. It is colorless and odorless.

Inspecting for it annually is the strongest argument for fall service, independent of any efficiency benefit. Our heating season is short enough that homeowners are tempted to skip it, and that is precisely the reason not to.

Priority Dispatch Is the Benefit Members Mention

The tune-ups are the product. The thing members actually talk about is what happens during a hard freeze.

When a cold snap hits the Hill Country, every heating call in the county arrives within about eighteen hours. Backlogs stretch, and homeowners without standing wait.

Members go to the front of that queue. Same during a heat wave for cooling. You are not negotiating for a slot on the day you need one.

It Covers More Than the Furnace

Because we run both trades, the membership is not heating-only.

Spring brings AC maintenance before the first sustained heat. The plumbing side includes an annual system review and water heater maintenance — the single most-skipped service in most homes, and the one that matters most in hard Hill Country water.

One membership, one schedule, one company holding your service history, rather than three agreements to track.

Freeze Preparation

The seasonal item worth flagging for Texas homes specifically is winterization.

Houses here are not built like houses in cold climates. Supply lines run through unconditioned attics and along exterior walls, hose bibs are often not frost-proof, and irrigation backflow assemblies sit exposed. That is fine for most of the year and a liability during the freeze that arrives every few winters.

Members get vulnerable runs identified and protected in the fall, which is considerably cheaper than frozen pipe repair afterward.

Warranty Documentation

Most furnace manufacturers require documented annual maintenance to keep the warranty valid. A claim on a failed component with no service history is routinely denied.

Membership produces that record automatically, which is worth having on equipment still under coverage.

The Economic Argument

Members generally spend less over a system’s lifetime than non-members, even counting the membership itself, because almost no major failure is actually sudden.

A drifting capacitor is a cheap part. Left alone it takes out a blower motor. A flame sensor that needs cleaning is a five-minute job; ignored, it is a no-heat call in January. Maintenance exists to find those things while they are still small.

Members also receive discounted repair pricing and no overtime charges — the specific terms are listed on the plan page.

Enrolling

The practical obstacle to maintenance is never cost. It is remembering in October when the weather is fine. The membership handles the scheduling so it does not depend on that.

Details on the heating work itself are on our furnace maintenance page.

We serve Fredericksburg, Kerrville, Boerne, Comfort, Mason, and the surrounding Hill Country. Contact 72 Degrees or call (830) 468-5316.