When selling your home, you have to do a lot of preparation. Helping you put your best foot forward is what your real estate agent's goal is. Furnace Factory Direct can help you in the heating system department: Have your furnace cleaned and inspected and certified, or replace it with a new one! While you're at it, why don't you have your ducts cleaned? It's all about putting your best foot forward, so help your real estate agent by making your home the best it can be!

Before you dismiss the importance of having your furnace inspected BEFORE selling your home, remember that a furnace is a potentially dangerous device, and is a liability bourdon to the seller!

One of the often-overlooked tasks is getting the furnace inspected and approved. You want this so that the person buying your home with have the feeling of comfort and reliability when they think of your furnace.

FFD Plus™ service is a furnace inspection plus a whole lot more:

• Furnace and Heating System Inspection: Furnace Factory Direct's Certified Technicians are trained to locate and identify defects and improper installations. They inspect the furnace, exhaust venting, combustion air supply, gas piping from meter to furnace (visible/accessible areas only), and the gas piping within the furnace room.
• Furnace Cleaning: A dirty furnace is less efficient, looks bad and is a potential health hazard. Our technician will vacuum all the accessible parts of your gas furnace.
• Safety Testing: This is the most important part of this package: Furnace Factory Direct's Certified Technicians test all of the furnace's safety devices (blocked flue switch, high-limit, etc..) to ensure that when they operate as they were designed to. The technician will also test all the visible/accessible gas piping and venting looking for improper installation and leaks. Our technician will test your primary heat exchanger 3 ways: visual inspection, flame test, and the most important: Co (Carbon Monoxide) level measurement.
• Detailed Confidential Inspection Report: Our technician will supply a report detailing condition of the equipment, and the costs (if any) to repair the equipment. Along with this report, will be a detailed quote to replace the equipment with a new Coleman or American Standard furnace or air conditioner.
• FFD Plus-Approved Furnace Inspection certificate:This certificate has a unique identifying number. People visiting your home will be able to contact us and verify that the work was actually performed. We will list the services rendered and confirm that your furnace has met our safety criteria. The certificate tells the buyer that this furnace has passed Furnace Factory Direct's strict on-site testing, and is awarded the FFD Plus Certificate Of Approval.

Once-again, it's all about putting your best foot forward. Have Furnace Factory Direct clean your ducts, and now you have another selling point! The "feeling" of being in a clean house is one that helps sell. Ask your real estate agent, they'll tell you it's a great idea!

When you sell your home, you only have one chance at a good first impression. If your furnace looks old, or is inefficient, you now have to defend a negative selling point. Negative selling points are anything that the potential home buyer doesn't like. If your furnace is relatively new, not too inefficient, then having a Certified Inspection Report is the correct path for you. However, if your furnace is old, has visible rust, is inefficient, or is discontinued (no parts available), or a health hazard, then replacing your furnace prior to listing your home is the best solution.

When a potential home buyer sees your new Coleman or American Standard furnace Installed by Furnace Factory Direct along with the Furnace Information Sheet, they're looking at positive selling points. Positive selling points enhance your house's value, and increase your chances of getting a good offer. It is not unheard of a buyer increasing the house's selling price by twice the cost of the furnace upgrade.

Call us for an estimate at (613) 829-8186 - toll-free: 1-866-685-HEAT (4328),

or e-mail us at: sales@furnacefactorydirect.ca

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How important is it to have the furnace inspected? Having a furnace inspected by a certified technician is the single-most important act a buyer or seller can do. The ramifications of not having a certified technician inspect your furnace can be catastrophic. Consider the plight of a Stearn County, Minnesota family: they purchased a house with a defective furnace. Two of their children died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. A hole/crack in the furnace's heat exchanger was deemed to be the most-likely cause (the defense attorneys had argued that the source of carbon monoxide was from a fireplace). The home seller, the real estate agent and the real estate agency paid a total of $1.7 million USD (Court-defined split: 65% real estate agent & agency, 35% home seller).

Had the home sellers purchased the FFD Plus™ service, two children would be alive today, and the sellers would only have be required to pay a few hundred (instead of hundreds of thousands of) dollars for repairs or replacement .

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