HVAC Repair in Lewisburg, WV
Homes here need heat from October through May and cooling from July through August. If your system quits, tell us what it's doing and a licensed contractor who covers Greenbrier County will get in touch.
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Ten months of run time in Lewisburg
Your furnace works from October through May here, and the AC picks up in July and August. That is ten months of the year with something running most days. On winter nights near 23°F, the burner cycles on and off for hours to keep up, and each start puts wear on the igniter and the ignition control board. When one of those fails, the furnace stops firing and the house goes cold.
55.3% of homes here heat with electricity, so a power outage means no heat at all, not just a furnace that won't start. The record for this area includes 44 winter storms and 104 damaging wind events over the past ten years, and across West Virginia over a third of households lost power for at least a day in 2024. Most systems restart on their own once power is back, but the storm that took it out can still leave a coil, a fan motor, or a control board damaged.
- 8 months
- October through May, your system heats
- 2 months
- July through August, it cools
- 23°F
- the average winter night it heats against
- 79°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 issues this license, and it covers the contractor, not the job in front of them. That means the state tested this contractor before letting them take on work, and there's a record of who they are on file. It doesn't mean someone checks this particular repair once it's done.
For a heating and cooling repair, that license is what stands behind the person doing the work. If gas connections are part of the repair, a bad joint is the dangerous part of that job, and here it's the license itself, not a separate inspection, that answers for it.
Source: West Virginia Legislature
- Why is my heat not working?
- Most often it's the igniter, a tripped limit switch, or the thermostat set wrong or dead on batteries. Check your thermostat first, since a blank screen or wrong setting causes plenty of no-heat calls by itself. If the thermostat looks fine, check the breaker and any furnace switch that looks like a light switch near the unit, since that gets bumped off more than people expect. Winter nights here drop to 23°F on average, so a furnace that won't fire needs a contractor out the same day, not next week.
- 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 over and blow warm air even though the system runs fine. Check the thermostat is set to cool and not just fan, and check nothing is blocking a supply vent or the outdoor unit. If the filter is clean and air is still warm, the refrigerant charge or the compressor likely needs a contractor to look at it.
- What can I check before calling for HVAC repair?
- Check the thermostat first, the batteries, the setting, and the screen. Check the breaker for the system and any service switch near the furnace or air handler, since those get shut off by accident more often than people think. Check the air filter and swap it if it's gray or clogged. If the outdoor unit isn't running, check that nothing like leaves or a fallen branch is blocking it, especially after a wind storm. If none of that fixes it, a licensed contractor will need to diagnose it, since West Virginia requires HVAC contractors to hold a state license for this kind of repair.