
We want to help you understand the difference between homeowners insurance and home protection plans.
Ensure your home’s heating and cooling systems are ready when you need them! We all rely on our furnaces and boilers to function properly, especially in winter. Regular maintenance is essential in preventing unexpected breakdowns. Similarly, your central air conditioner needs annual attention to maintain efficiency and avoid failures when you need it most.
Our Heating and Cooling Maintenance Plan includes:
• Annual performance tune-up for a furnace or boiler, regardless of age or brand
• Annual performance tune-up for a primary central AC system, regardless of age or brand
Columbia Service Partners™* offers optional repair and maintenance plans to homeowners. These plans are administered by Oncourse Home Solutions, one of the nation's leading providers of optional protection programs. The plans provide piece of mind for customers by helping protect them from the costs associated with unexpected repairs. Columbia Service Partners™* is not affiliated with Columbia Gas®.
Your home and your family’s comfort are too important to simply hope your heating and cooling systems work well year after year. Regular professional maintenance is key to ensuring they run safely and efficiently for as long as possible. This plan includes annual performance tune-ups for both a furnace/boiler and for a central air conditioner. All work is performed by one of our highly qualified network contractors.
Without proper attention, your heating and cooling equipment could fail when you need them the most. Each year, your heating and cooling systems should be maintained by certified professionals to ensure safe operation and peak efficiency. That’s what you get with the Heating and Cooling Maintenance Plan.
Standard homeowners insurance typically doesn’t cover maintenance or repairs for your heating and cooling systems. That’s why it’s important to schedule regular maintenance to keep your systems running efficiently and extend their lifespan. As a homeowner, this responsibility is yours, and we’re here to help you with it.
You will be eligible to schedule your maintenance appointments as soon as you enroll in the plan, and you’ll continue to be eligible for a heating system appointment and a cooling system appointment each annual term. You may even have the option to schedule your heating and cooling maintenance appointments for the same visit! Appointments are upon request and are subject to schedule availability. Cooling maintenance appointments are weather-dependent — it needs to be at least 60 degrees Fahrenheit outside, with dry conditions.
Repairs are not part of the Heating and Cooling Maintenance Plan. If your systems require repairs, it would be up to you to make an appointment with a qualified technician. Many of our Heating and Cooling Maintenance customers are also enrolled in our one or more of our repair plans — Heating Repair Plan, Heating Protection Plan, Cooling Repair Plan, and Cooling Protection Plan — and those customers know they can trust us to take care of repairs when needed.
If you decide you no longer want to maintain your protection with us, there are multiple ways for you to cancel it.
By phone: This is typically the easiest and fastest way to cancel your program(s). You can call 888-717-5432 any time, day or night, and select the option to cancel your protection. When you are connected to one of our agents, tell them that you wish to cancel your protection. The agent will ask you some questions to verify your account information and will be able to assist you with the cancellation.
Through your online account: There a few simple steps to follow if cancelling your protection online:
Online chat: To initiate an online chat with one of our agents, click on the Chat prompt on the right edge of one of our website pages. Select "Billing Question" as the nature of your inquiry and click Submit, then let the agent know you would like to cancel your coverage. (Or, if prompted, please enter your name and "Cancel coverage" as the reason for your chat.) The agent will assist you from there.
If you cancel your protection within the first 30 days after your new program enrollment was processed, you will be entitled to a full refund of all program fees you have paid. This refund will be issued within 30 days of cancellation.
For all other customers:
If you are paying monthly for your protection, your program cancellation will take effect at the end of your monthly billing cycle and you will not receive money back. Protection under your contract will continue through the end of your monthly billing cycle, regardless of when you cancel within the cycle.
If you are paying annually for your protection, your program cancellation will take effect at the end of the current billing month within your annual term, and you will receive a refund for the remainder of your annual term. Your refund will be credited to the same payment method you used to make your annual payment.
If you pay your Columbia Service Partners™* charges through your utility company's monthly bill and wish to cancel your protection, let us know of your cancellation request by phone or in your online account with us (see specifics above). Once we process your cancellation request, we will notify your utility company that we are no longer requesting payment from them for your cancelled protection. Depending on how Columbia Service Partners and your utility company's billing cycles align and whether your utility company bills for services after they are provided, a charge may still appear on your next one to two utility bills. Rest assured that once we have processed your cancellation request, we will not ask your utility for any additional payments for your protection, and you will only be charged for months you received protection.
Note: If you close your utility account, or if you do not pay your utility bill in full each month, your coverage with us may be canceled as a result.
After your protection cancellation request is processed, the cancellation will take effect at the end of your current monthly Columbia Service Partners™* billing cycle. Until that date, your protection will remain active and you will be eligible to make a claim if needed.
Yes. If you change your mind and want to re-enroll in protection, just let us know. Depending on your selected program(s), you may need to wait 30 days for your new protection to become effective, and pre-existing conditions are not covered.
If you do not have an automatic payment method on file, or if your account is not set to automatically renew, you may receive a notice requesting you to renew your coverage for another year. Please respond to your notice to renew your coverage. Not responding will result in your coverage being canceled.
If you received a piece of mail, email, or postcard indicating you had a failed payment, it is because we were unable to successfully process your payment using the method we have on file. To avoid a lapse in your coverage, please contact us and set up another payment method.