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Boiler, Oil & Pellet Heating in Columbia, TN
Most Maury County homes heat with a furnace or a heat pump, and most shops stop there. But the older housing stock — farmhouses, early-1900s homes in Columbia and Mount Pleasant, country places that were never on a gas line — still runs boilers, oil furnaces, and pellet stoves, and those systems need a tech who works on them on purpose. We do: service, safety checks, repair, and honest replacement pricing, from our Columbia shop at 1230 Industrial Park Rd, Suite 104.
5-star ratedLicensed & insured in Tennessee25 years in businessColumbia, TN · Price in writing before work starts
Three systems, three different service lists
| System | How it heats | The yearly work it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Hot-water or steam boiler | Heats water and moves it through radiators or baseboard loops | Pressure and relief-valve check, water level and air bleeding on radiators, burner service, and a look at the expansion tank — a boiler that is never looked at lets small leaks and low pressure do slow damage |
| Oil furnace | Burns heating oil in a forced-air furnace | Nozzle and oil filter change, combustion check, heat exchanger inspection, and the soot cleaned out — skipped years show up as high oil use and a furnace that smells when it fires |
| Pellet stove | Burns compressed wood pellets fed by an auger | Burn pot and vent cleaning, auger and igniter check, ash removal done properly — pellet stoves forgive a lot, right up until the vent is blocked |
Signs to call on, by system
- Boiler: banging or kettling, radiators hot at the bottom and cold at the top (air in the loop), pressure that will not hold, water at the base, or a relief valve that drips. Radiator heat is some of the most even heat there is — when it goes uneven, the system is telling you something specific.
- Oil furnace: a fuel smell that lingers, soot at the registers or around the unit, the burner resetting again and again, or oil use climbing for the same weather. A burner that needs the reset button weekly is not being stubborn; it is failing in stages.
- Pellet stove: pellets backing up in the auger, a lazy or smoky flame, the stove shutting down mid-burn, or ash building faster than it used to. Most of these are cleaning and vent problems before they are parts problems.
Safety, in plain terms
Fuel-burning equipment gets the same rule here as on our heating & furnace repair page: safety checks come first, in general terms any homeowner can hold us to — the heat exchanger checked for cracks, venting checked for blockages and back-drafting, carbon monoxide checked at the visit, and the relief valve on a boiler tested, not assumed. If you smell gas at a furnace, that is a leave-and-call-from-outside problem; fuel oil and pellet smoke smells are call-now problems of a lower order. Never run a boiler with the relief valve wired shut or an oil burner you have to reset daily — both are systems asking for help in the only way they can.
Repair or replace, for systems most shops will not touch
Owners of boilers and oil furnaces hear one of two bad answers: "we do not work on those," or "replace it with a heat pump" before anyone has looked. The real answer is the same one we give on the system replacement page: test the system, price the repair, price the replacement on the same scope, and put both in writing. A sound boiler with a failed circulator is a repair. An oil furnace with a cracked heat exchanger is a replacement, and the replacement options — gas where a line exists, a heat pump, dual-fuel — get priced against your house and your fuel, not against a sales target. Radiant and baseboard systems that pair with boilers are covered on the specialty heating & cooling page.
Boiler banging, oil burner resetting, pellet stove sulking?
Call and name the system. We service all three, and the finding and price go in writing before any work starts.
Licensed & insured in Tennessee · ★★★★★ 5-star rated · 25 years in business · 1230 Industrial Park Rd, Columbia, TN
Boiler, Oil & Pellet FAQs
Do you service oil furnaces, or has everyone switched to gas and electric?
We service them. Oil heat is still running in older Maury County homes, farmhouses, and outbuildings, and it needs its own yearly work: nozzle, filter, and a proper combustion check. An oil furnace that skips years of service soots up, burns more oil per degree of heat, and eventually quits on the coldest night — usually in that order.
My boiler makes banging noises when it runs. Is that dangerous?
Banging in a hot-water boiler — kettling — usually means sediment and scale on the heat exchanger making the water flash to steam in pockets, or air trapped in the system. It is a service call, not an emergency by itself, but it is the boiler telling you it is working harder than it should. What is an emergency: a pressure relief valve lifting, water pooling at the base, or the smell of fuel oil that does not fade. Those are call-now, and shut the system down if you can do it safely.
Is a pellet stove worth repairing, or should it be replaced?
It turns on the part and the age. Auger motors, igniters, and control boards are repair work on a sound stove. A stove with a rusted burn chamber or a cracked body is a replacement conversation. We put the repair price and the replacement price in writing, same rule as any system — and for pellet stoves, half of 'broken' turns out to be ash and a blocked vent, which is a cleaning, not a part.
Old fuel heat, serviced on purpose.
Boilers, oil furnaces, pellet stoves — call the Columbia shop. Safety checks first, both prices in writing when age says so.
Licensed & insured in Tennessee · ★★★★★ 5-star rated · 25 years in business · 1230 Industrial Park Rd, Columbia, TN