Furnace repair in Vancouver, WA.

Gas and electric furnaces, most major brands.

On gas furnaces we handle the full ignition chain (hot surface igniters, flame sensors, gas valves), inducer and blower motors, limit switches, and control boards. On electric furnaces and air handlers it's usually heat strips, sequencers, blower motors, or the thermostat itself. We're an American Standard Authorized Dealer and a Mitsubishi Diamond Contractor, and we work on most other major brands as well.

This page covers furnaces specifically. If your heat comes from a heat pump, start at heat pump repair, and for cooling equipment or anything else, our HVAC repair page covers the whole lineup.

What your furnace symptom usually means.

• No heat at all. Before you call, check the thermostat batteries, the breaker, and the service switch on the side of the furnace (it looks like a light switch and gets bumped more often than you'd think). If those check out, the usual suspects are a failed igniter, a bad capacitor, or a control board.
• Short cycling. The furnace fires, runs a minute or two, and shuts back down. Nine times out of ten that's overheating from a clogged filter or blocked airflow tripping the limit switch, or a dirty flame sensor dropping the flame signal. Our guide on how often to change your filter covers the cheapest prevention there is.
• Blower runs but the air is cold. The fan is moving air the burners never heated. On gas that points to the igniter, flame sensor, or gas valve; on electric, failed heat strips or a stuck sequencer. Sometimes it's just the fan switch set to ON instead of AUTO, which costs nothing to fix.
• Ignition or pilot problems. Clicking with no light-off, or three tries and then a lockout, points at the ignition system. Older furnaces with a standing pilot that won't stay lit usually need a thermocouple, one of the cheaper fixes in the trade.
• Strange noises or smells. A boom at light-off means delayed ignition and shouldn't be ignored. Screeching is a blower motor or bearing on its way out. A dusty burning smell for the first day of heating season is normal; a persistent burning or gas smell is not, and gas smells mean leave the house and call your gas utility first.

A calm note on carbon monoxide.

A properly running gas furnace vents its combustion gases outside. The failure that changes that is a cracked heat exchanger, which can let those gases, including carbon monoxide, reach your home's air. It's not common, but it's the one furnace problem we never patch. Keep a working CO alarm near the bedrooms, and if it ever sounds, get everyone outside first and call 911 or your gas utility before you call us.

How the diagnostic visit works.

• 1 · You call. Tell us the symptom, and we'll tell you the flat trip charge for the diagnostic upfront and the soonest we can be out. No-heat calls get priority when our schedule allows.
• 2 · We diagnose. Electrical readings, the full ignition sequence, combustion and venting, airflow. We find the actual fault instead of swapping parts on a guess.
• 3 · You get numbers in writing. The repair is quoted before any work starts, and if you go ahead, the trip charge usually rolls into the job.
• 4 · We do the fix you approved. If the fix is a simple flame sensor cleaning, that's what you get. Nobody on our crew is paid to upsell you, and you'll never be pressured to sign anything during a service call.

Repair or replace: how we run the numbers.

A furnace typically lasts 18–25 years, so most repairs are the right money. Our rule of thumb from when to repair vs replace your furnace: replacement only wins when both things are true, the furnace is 15+ years old and the repair quote runs 30% or more of the cost of a new system. A $950 inducer motor on an 18-year-old furnace is only about 11% of an $8,500 replacement, so you repair it and move on. A cracked heat exchanger flips the answer, since that repair usually lands at a third of a new furnace or more on a unit that's already aged out.

When the math does point to furnace replacement, we'll say so plainly and quote it in writing, no pressure attached. A new gas furnace installed by our crew typically runs $6,400–$13,300 depending on size and efficiency; the details live on our furnace installation page, or you can see the range instantly with the estimator, or read what a furnace replacement actually costs. One number worth knowing: stepping up from an old 80% furnace to a 95%+ AFUE model saves a typical local home about $280 a year on gas, which pays back the roughly $2,000 efficiency premium in about seven years.

Peak Care members skip the line.

The cheapest furnace repair is the one a fall tune-up catches in October instead of a cold snap in January. Base Camp ($22/mo, billed $269/yr) includes an annual tune-up, priority scheduling, 10% off all parts and labor, and no trip charges. Ridge ($32/mo, billed $389/yr) is the tier we enroll our own families in: priority same-day emergency dispatch during business hours (next-morning after hours), 15% off all parts and labor, and no trip, overtime, or diagnostic charges. Every plan is billed annually with no auto-renewal.

Why Pacific Peak for furnace repair.

We're a family-owned Vancouver company with 60+ five-star Google reviews, and every tech who shows up at your door is direct-hire, never a subcontractor. We're licensed and bonded in Washington (Lic# PACIFPM742JC), and because we install furnaces every week, our repair advice comes from people who also know exactly what a replacement should cost. Meet the team before we ever knock.

Furnace repair across the metro.

Based at our Vancouver HQ, we run furnace calls throughout Clark County and across the river: Camas, Battle Ground, Ridgefield, Washougal, Brush Prairie, Portland, and Gresham. The full map is on our service area page.

Common questions about furnace repair.