HVAC Repair in Beckley, WV
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 Raleigh County will get in touch.
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Eleven months of work a year in Beckley
Your furnace and your air conditioner barely get a rest here. Heat runs October through May, then cooling takes over for June through August, so the system is working eleven months out of the year. Winter nights average 25°F, cold enough that the burner cycles on and off for hours at a stretch, and each cycle puts wear on the igniter and the ignition control. When one of those fails, the house goes cold on the coldest nights, not the mild ones.
55.9% of homes here heat with electricity, so a lot of that winter load falls on a heat pump or electric furnace instead of gas. Storms add another strain. Raleigh County has seen 22 winter storms and 105 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and across West Virginia 35% of households lost power for at least 24 hours in 2024. A system that loses power and comes back on with a bad capacitor or a tripped switch will not start cooling again on its own on an 80°F afternoon, or heating again on a night near 25°F.
- 8 months
- October through May, your system heats
- 3 months
- June through August, it cools
- 25°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 80°F
- the average summer afternoon it cools against
NOAA nClimDiv, 1991–2020 normals
West Virginia requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license.
The Commissioner of Labor is the office that issues the license and keeps the record of who holds one. That office tested the contractor before handing it out, so the license belongs to the person or business, not to any one job they do. A repair on your system does not get its own separate approval. It is covered by the license the contractor already holds.
Because the state licenses the contractor directly, that license is what stands behind this repair. It is the record that the work is being done by someone the state has tested and can hold accountable.
Source: West Virginia Legislature
- Why is my heat not working?
- Most often the thermostat isn't calling for heat the way you think it is, or power isn't reaching the furnace. Check that the thermostat is set below room temperature and the batteries aren't dead. Check your breaker panel too, since a tripped breaker or a bad heating element will stop a furnace cold. At 25°F on a winter night here, this isn't something to leave for later.
- Why is my system running but not cooling the house?
- If the blower is running but the air isn't cold, check the air filter first. A clogged filter starves the coil of airflow, and the coil can ice over and stop cooling the house even though the fan keeps moving air. Check the outdoor unit too. If the fan out there isn't spinning, or you hear it humming without turning, that's a problem a contractor needs to look at. Summer afternoons here average 80°F, so a system that's only moving air without cooling it needs attention soon.
- What can I check before calling for HVAC repair?
- Check the thermostat settings and batteries first. Then check the air filter, since a dirty filter causes more no-cool and no-heat calls than almost anything else. Check your breaker panel for anything tripped. If the system still isn't working after that, a licensed contractor can diagnose what's wrong. West Virginia requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license, so ask before any work starts.