Furnace and boiler service that keeps a Kansas winter outside where it belongs — including the combustion and carbon monoxide testing that too often gets skipped.
Winter may be on the way out when you read this, but it will be back before you know it — which makes any month that is not January the right month to evaluate your heating system honestly.
We service and replace gas and propane furnaces, hot water boilers, hydronic loops and radiant systems, and the electric strip heat that backs up a heat pump. Where a system is shared between heating and cooling, we look at the whole thing rather than half of it.
Every furnace or boiler we touch gets a combustion analysis and a carbon monoxide check before we leave. Not on request, not for an extra fee — every time. A cracked heat exchanger is the one failure mode in this trade that can hurt somebody.
Four areas of work under this heading. Most calls fall into one; larger projects touch several.
No-heat calls are our busiest winter work. A large share come down to a handful of components, and our trucks carry them: igniters, flame sensors, pressure switches, inducer motors and control boards.
Hot water heat is quiet, even and comfortable, and Manhattan has plenty of it in older homes. It also needs a technician who understands circulators, zone valves, expansion and air elimination.
When a system reaches the end, replacement is a chance to fix what was wrong from the start: undersized returns, leaking ducts and a system chosen because it matched the old one.
Combustion analysis puts numbers on what a visual inspection can only guess at: oxygen, carbon monoxide in the flue, stack temperature and draft.
Recognising these early is usually the difference between a service call and a replacement.
Short-cycling on a limit. Most often a dirty filter or a closed return starving the blower, but it can equally be a failing limit switch or an oversized furnace.
A gas flame should be crisp and blue. Yellow and wavering means incomplete combustion — a combustion analysis, not guesswork, is the next step.
Duct leakage, insufficient return air, or a balancing problem. Measuring static pressure tells us which, usually in under an hour.
Dust on the exchanger in October is normal and passes within an hour. A persistent smell of hot metal or electrical insulation is not — switch the system off.
Leave the building and call the fire department. Once it is clear, call us for a combustion test before running the system again. Treat every alarm as real.
Condensing furnaces produce acidic condensate. A blocked trap or line backs that up into the unit and corrodes it from the inside.
Real invoiced ranges for the Manhattan area. Every job is quoted before we start, and you approve the figure before a tool comes out of the van.
| Work | Typical range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Furnace tune-up with combustion analysis | $119 – $189 | Included twice yearly on the $119 service agreement |
| No-heat diagnostic call | $95 – $145 | Trip plus first hour on site |
| Flame sensor or igniter replacement | $170 – $360 | Parts stocked on the trucks |
| Inducer or blower motor | $480 – $920 | Varies by model and availability |
| Control board replacement | $420 – $850 | Manufacturer-specific |
| Gas furnace replacement, 80% AFUE | $3,400 – $5,400 | Installed with permit and commissioning |
| Gas furnace replacement, 95%+ AFUE | $4,600 – $6,900 | Includes new venting and condensate |
| Boiler replacement | $6,200 – $13,500 | Depends on capacity and zone configuration |
Ranges are indicative and assume normal access during business hours. Emergency and after-hours work carries a premium rate, confirmed with you before dispatch.
A well-maintained gas furnace generally runs 18 to 25 years here. Equipment that has never been serviced tends to land at the low end. Past twenty years, we start including a replacement figure alongside any significant repair quote so you can compare the two properly.
The heat exchanger is the metal barrier between combustion gases and the air you breathe. A crack lets flue products — including carbon monoxide — into the supply air. It is not repairable; the exchanger or the furnace has to be replaced, and the system should not be run in the meantime.
Generally no. Forced-air systems are balanced for a designed airflow. Closing registers raises static pressure across the whole system, which reduces airflow over the heat exchanger and can trip limits or shorten blower life. If a room genuinely does not need heat, the answer is zoning, not closed vents.
Usually, though it depends on how long you plan to stay and what your gas rate looks like. A condensing furnace also needs PVC venting and a condensate drain, which adds installation cost in some houses. We quote both and show the annual difference rather than asserting one is better.
Probably not. Heat pump supply air is typically 90–100 °F — warm, but cooler than your skin, so it can feel cool at the register. What matters is whether the house holds its set temperature and whether auxiliary heat is running more than it should. If the auxiliary light is on constantly, call us.
Installation, repair and replacement of central air, heat pumps and ductless mini-splits — sized correctly and tested before we leave.
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Everything from a dripping faucet to a full repipe, backed by 24-hour emergency response for the Manhattan area.
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Tank, tankless and hybrid heat-pump water heaters — supplied, installed to code and flushed on schedule.
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