HVAC Repair in Cleveland, TN
Homes here need heat from October through April and cooling from May through September. If your system quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Bradley County will get in touch.
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Bradley County runs its system almost year round
Your system works twelve months here. Heat from October through April, cooling from May through September. That is seven months of burners lighting and five months of the compressor cycling on, with barely a break between them.
Winter nights average 32°F, mild enough that the furnace short cycles rather than running long and steady, and that means more starts on the igniter and the ignition control over the season. Summer afternoons average 88°F, which keeps the compressor working hard through the afternoon and into the evening. Most homes here heat with electricity, so when a storm knocks out power, the heat goes with it. Bradley County has seen 12 winter storms and 60 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and statewide, one in five households lost power for a full day or more in 2024. When the power drops mid-cycle and comes back, most systems restart on their own. If yours does not, that is worth a call.
- 7 months
- October through April, your system heats
- 5 months
- May through September, it cools
- 32°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 88°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
- Why is my heat not working?
- Start with the thermostat. Make sure it's set to heat and the temperature is set above the room temperature, and check if the display is blank, which usually means dead batteries. If the thermostat looks fine, check your breaker panel for a tripped breaker, since a furnace that lost power mid-cycle will not restart on its own. Gas furnaces with a standing pilot need that pilot lit, so check if it's out. If none of that explains it, the igniter or flame sensor may have failed, and that's a job for a contractor.
- 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 when that happens the coil can ice up and stop cooling the air at all. Next check the outdoor unit. If the condenser fan isn't spinning or the unit is caked in leaves and grass clippings, it can't release the heat it's pulling from your house. If the filter is clean and the outdoor unit looks fine, the system may be low on refrigerant, and finding that requires a gauge set a contractor carries, not something to guess at.
- What can I check before calling for HVAC repair?
- Check the thermostat settings and batteries first, since a wrong setting or a dead battery causes more no-heat and no-cool calls than an actual equipment failure. Check your breaker panel next, since a tripped breaker will stop a furnace or air conditioner cold and resetting it sometimes solves the problem outright. Look at the air filter and replace it if it's gray or clogged, since restricted airflow is behind a lot of the calls people make. If the outdoor unit is part of the problem, clear leaves or debris away from it. Past that, if the system still isn't heating or cooling right, a contractor will need to look at what's actually going on inside it.