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Is it an emergency, or can it wait until morning?

True HVAC emergencies are about safety and vulnerable people: gas smells, burning smells, carbon-monoxide alarms, no heat in freezing weather with kids/elderly/medical needs in the home, or water actively damaging the house. Most everything else — weak airflow, odd noises, a warm afternoon without AC — is urgent but survivable until a normal appointment.

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Quick answer

  • Gas smell: leave the house, then call the gas utility from outside. That's before any HVAC call.
  • CO alarm: get everyone out and call 911. CO is why furnace safety inspections exist.
  • No heat + freezing temps + vulnerable occupants = call the 24/7 line. We answer around the clock.
  • Burning/electrical smells: kill the system at the breaker, then call.
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Call right now (any hour)

Rotten-egg gas odor (leave first, call PSE from outside, then us); carbon monoxide alarm (evacuate, 911); electrical burning smells or visible smoke from equipment (breaker off, call); water pouring from an air handler or water heater onto living space (water off if you can reach the valve, call); and no heat during a hard freeze in a household with infants, elders, or medical equipment.

Urgent, but morning is fine

System not keeping up but the house is safe (space heat one room, close doors); AC out on a warm day (shades down, fans on, hydrate — our heat rarely persists overnight); a heat pump stuck in one mode; icing on the outdoor unit that defrost isn't clearing. Book the next available visit and don't run equipment that's making grinding or screeching sounds.

Check these before calling (two minutes)

Thermostat mode and batteries; the breaker panel for a tripped double-pole breaker; the furnace switch that looks like a light switch near the unit (famously bumped off); the filter (a suffocated system can shut itself down and recover once it breathes); and any float-switch shutdown from a full condensate pan. A surprising share of 'dead system' calls end here — we'd rather save you the trip charge.

What 24/7 means at Infinity

A live answer and a genuine emergency response, nights, weekends, and holidays. When you call, tell us who's in the home and what the temperature is doing — it helps us triage honestly between 'we're coming now' and 'here's how to stay comfortable until the morning slot,' and we'll always tell you which one you're paying for.

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Talk it through with the family-run team that answers 24/7 — honest advice first, quotes only after we've actually seen your home.

Family owned · WA Lic. INFINHA841B8 · 400+ Google reviews

Common questions

Is a frozen outdoor unit in winter normal?

A frost coating that clears during periodic defrost cycles is normal (you may see steam — that's the defrost working). Solid ice buildup that never clears, or ice damaging the fan, is a service call. Never chip ice off the coil.

My furnace short-cycles (starts and stops rapidly). Emergency?

Not usually, but stop running it and check the filter first. Persistent short-cycling can mean an overheating limit trip — a safety doing its job — and warrants prompt service.

Do you charge extra for after-hours calls?

Emergency dispatch outside normal hours carries an after-hours rate, which we tell you before anyone rolls. If it can safely wait for a standard appointment, we'll say so.

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Infinity Heating & Air — licensed WA HVAC contractor (Lic. INFINHA841B8), family-owned in Graham. Last updated July 2026.

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Bring us any repair or replacement quote and our licensed family team will verify it — free, honest, no pressure. If their price and diagnosis are right, we'll tell you.

Family owned · WA Lic. INFINHA841B8 · 400+ Google reviews