From left, David Cornell and Jeff Lawson of Reliable Heating and Air Conditioning stand ready to help customers with generators.Since the tornadoes of April 2011, many people in Chattanooga and the surrounding areas have found themselves putting together emergency kits, building storm shelters and coming up with family emergency plans to be ready for whatever may happen.
With the idea in mind of being ready for anything, Reliable Heating and Air Conditioning offers standby generators.
“People like the peace of mind that having your own ‘power plant’ provides,” said David Cornell, vice president of the second-generation family-owned local business. “They can be used to power the whole house or selected circuits like heating and air conditioning, lights and the kitchen circuits.”
A standby generator is a backup power supply that turns on automatically within seconds of a power loss, he explained. With most standby generators there are no switches to throw, and they can restore power automatically whether the owner is home or not.
Generac is just one brand of generator that Reliable carries.“They differ greatly from the more popular portable type in that they are a permanent fixture on the outside of the home, much like a heating and cooling unit,” Cornell said. “Another benefit to the standby generator is that it is fueled by natural gas or propane, so the fuel source is plentiful to withstand long power outages and there is no need to store gasoline, as is the case with most portable-type generators.”