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No heat in February. No cooling in a heat warning. A gas smell at midnight, or a water heater letting go into a finished basement. Whatever the equipment, we answer the phone around the clock, every day of the year, across Toronto and the GTA, Durham, York and Simcoe — and we do not charge a cent extra for nights, weekends, or holidays.
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Not every HVAC problem needs a truck at midnight, and we would rather tell you that than sell you an after-hours call you did not need. These are the situations where you should stop reading and pick up the phone:
No heat when outdoor temperatures are at or below freezing — pipes can burst within hours
A gas smell anywhere near the furnace, water heater, or gas line
A carbon monoxide alarm sounding, or anyone in the home feeling dizzy, nauseous, or confused
No cooling during a heat warning, especially with seniors, infants, or medical conditions at home
Water actively leaking or pooling under the furnace, boiler, or water heater
A burning, melting, or electrical smell coming from the equipment
The furnace short-cycling on and off repeatedly and never reaching temperature
Any loud grinding, banging, or metal-on-metal noise from a running system
Heating, cooling, and the plumbing tied to them. One number covers all of it, day or night.
The bulk of our winter emergency work. Failed igniters, dead blower motors, tripped limit switches, bad gas valves, and control boards that gave out on the coldest night of the year. Most are back running the same visit.
Seized compressors, failed capacitors, frozen evaporator coils, and condenser fans that stopped turning. We carry the parts that fail most often so a heat-wave breakdown does not turn into a three-day wait.
Once the fire service has cleared the home, we inspect the gas line, the heat exchanger, and the venting, and we repair the cause. A cracked heat exchanger gets the furnace shut down, not patched.
Older homes across the GTA still run hot-water and steam boilers. Lost pressure, failed circulator pumps, and ignition faults are all same-night work for us.
A tank letting go can flood a finished basement fast. We handle emergency shut-off, drain-down, and same-day replacement of tank and tankless units.
When heat is lost long enough for pipes to freeze, the HVAC failure is only half the problem. We deal with both the cause and the damage.
This page is for the calls that cannot wait until morning. If the system is still running and you want the detail on diagnosis, common parts and what a repair costs, these pages cover it properly.
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Not a voicemail box, not a form that gets read in the morning. Tell the dispatcher what the system is doing, what your indoor temperature is, and who is in the house. If there are infants, seniors, or anyone with a medical condition at home, say so — it changes where you land in the queue.
If your problem is a gas leak or a sounding CO alarm, we tell you to get out and call 911 before we talk about anything else. If it is something you can safely check yourself in two minutes — a flipped furnace switch, a tripped breaker, a thermostat set to cool in January — we walk you through it on the phone. Sometimes that ends the call and costs you nothing.
Our crews work out of the regions they live in rather than one central yard, so the dispatch is usually to someone already in Durham, York, Simcoe, or the GTA near you. Most emergency calls are attended within about two hours. You get told who is coming and roughly when, not a nine-hour window.
The technician finds the actual fault and tells you what it costs to fix before touching anything. If the repair is not worth doing on a system that is near the end of its life, you get told that too, along with what replacement would look like. No work happens until you say go.
Most emergency repairs are finished in the same visit. Before leaving, the technician runs the system through full cycles and verifies it is operating correctly. You also get an honest read on whether this was a one-off failure or the first sign that the system is on its way out.
We would rather you sleep than pay for a call you did not need. Here is the honest split.
Still not sure? Call (647) 852-2359 and describe what is happening. We will tell you honestly whether it needs a truck tonight or whether it can wait until morning, and booking a regular furnace repair or AC repair visit costs you less than an emergency dispatch.
Furnaces almost never fail without warning. They fail after weeks of symptoms nobody acted on, and then they fail on the coldest night of the year, because that is the night the system is working hardest. Here is what to watch for.
The furnace fires, runs briefly, shuts off, then fires again a few minutes later without ever reaching the temperature you set. That usually means a tripped limit switch caused by restricted airflow, a failing flame sensor, or a furnace that was oversized for the house when it was installed. It burns gas hard and wears the ignition components out fast.
The blower is running but the air at the vents is barely warm. Common causes are a dirty flame sensor shutting the burners down seconds after ignition, a failed igniter, or a gas valve that is not opening properly. This is the single most common no-heat call we take in January.
A metallic grinding usually means a blower motor bearing is going. Banging at start-up can be delayed ignition, where gas builds briefly before it lights — that one needs looking at quickly. A high-pitched squeal is often a belt or motor issue. None of these fix themselves.
If parts of the house have quietly stopped heating properly, the furnace may be losing capacity, the ductwork may be leaking, or the blower may no longer be moving the air it should. It is also how a lot of homeowners discover their system is undersized for the house.
A healthy gas flame is crisp and blue. Yellow, orange, or flickering flame points to incomplete combustion, which is the condition that produces carbon monoxide. Do not wait on this one. Shut the system down and call (647) 852-2359.
Caught early, most of these are inexpensive parts. Caught on a Sunday night in a cold snap, the same fault becomes an emergency call and a very cold house. If your system is showing any of them, book a furnace tune-up now rather than a repair later.
Air conditioners follow the same pattern. They give you a season of warnings and then quit in the first serious heat wave, when every HVAC company in the province is already booked solid.
Usually low refrigerant from a leak, a failed compressor, or a badly iced evaporator coil. Refrigerant is not consumed in normal operation, so if it is low, there is a leak somewhere that needs finding.
Often a failed capacitor or condenser fan motor. Shut the system off at the breaker if you find this — running a compressor without condenser airflow is how a repairable fault turns into a replacement.
Counterintuitive but real: ice means the system is not absorbing heat properly, usually from restricted airflow or low refrigerant. Turn the AC off, leave the fan on to thaw it, and call. Running it iced up damages the compressor.
Normally a blocked condensate drain. It seems minor right up until it saturates a ceiling or a finished basement wall and turns into a mould problem.
An electrical fault or a compressor drawing far more current than it should. Do not keep resetting it — repeatedly re-energising a shorted circuit is a genuine fire risk.
A system losing capacity, an undersized unit, or a home with an envelope problem. Worth diagnosing before the peak of summer rather than during it.
Our technicians work out of the regions they live in, not one central depot. That is the whole reason we can hold a roughly two-hour response on emergency calls instead of pushing everything to next-day.
Core territory for us, east of the city.
North of the city, covered around the clock.
Where winter emergencies get serious fastest.
We also cover Toronto and the western GTA. Not sure whether you are in range? Call (647) 852-2359 and ask, or check the full list of service areas.
If the heat is out in the middle of a cold snap, what you do in the next hour matters. The risk is not just discomfort — it is frozen pipes, and a burst pipe costs far more than the furnace repair ever would.
Close curtains and blinds, shut the doors to rooms nobody is using, and move everyone into one room on the main floor. Block draughts at exterior doors with towels. A house that is 18 degrees when the furnace quits gives you many more hours of margin than one that is already at 15.
If the indoor temperature is heading toward 10 degrees, open the cabinet doors under sinks on exterior walls and set the taps furthest from the main to a slow drip. Moving water is much harder to freeze than standing water. This one step prevents most burst-pipe damage.
Plug them straight into a wall outlet, never into an extension cord or power bar, and keep at least a metre of clear space around them. Never leave one running in a room where people are sleeping unattended. And never, under any circumstances, heat a house with a gas oven or a barbecue — that is a carbon monoxide fatality waiting to happen.
If the house is dropping fast and you have an infant, an elderly relative, or someone with a medical condition at home, do not tough it out waiting for a technician. Go to family, a neighbour, or a municipal warming centre. The house can be cold for a few hours. People should not be.
Including Christmas, including 3am, including the third day of a deep freeze when everyone else has gone to voicemail.
No overtime rates, no after-hours premium, no holiday surcharge. Emergencies are expensive enough without a contractor doubling the rate because they can.
TSSA-certified, licensed G2 and G3 gas technicians. Gas work at 3am is exactly the wrong moment to find out someone is not qualified to do it.
Every brand in the Ontario market and every failure mode they have. The parts that fail most are already on the truck.
And the cheapest emergency is the one that never happens. Most of the no-heat calls we take in January trace back to something a seasonal tune-up would have caught in October. If your system is aging, a maintenance plan costs less than one after-hours repair.
What homeowners ask us most when something has failed and they need an answer right now.
Same-day furnace repair for every major brand.
Fast, reliable air conditioning repair and diagnosis.
Emergency boiler service for gas, electric, and steam systems.
Emergency tank and tankless replacement when a tank fails.
The cheapest emergency is the one that never happens.
Flexible payment options when a repair turns into a replacement.
We are answering the phone right now, whatever time you are reading this. No overtime charges, no holiday surcharges, no voicemail.
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