Did we ever determine if this was a regular gas forced-air furnace, or high efficiency? If it's high-efficiency, it is the heat sensor rod, which hardly every fails, it just needs to be cleaned off with very, very, very fine Emory cloth. On some furnaces, you can reach in by the burner (turn the unit off first), and feel the long rod and wipe it off. Or, it has one wire running to it and you can unscrew the rod and pull it out and clean it off. Be sure to use something fine.
Tom _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Spiro Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Furnace Issues Again! that was my igniter two Christmas's ago. err errr errr (then nothing) and then again, and it might catch and might not. There was something else with it, and I think the previous fix up was about $200 something. This time it was determined that it was wiser to get a new one. I hope you can get away at least once with a fix. We did that route about 3 times. (had the place since 1990). On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Claudia wrote: > Hi All, > > For those of you handy people out there, what might it mean if the furnace > has trouble turning on, after it's been off for a little while? > We've noticed that our furnace will turn on, turn off, turn on, turn off, > etc. It doesn't even stay on for a few seconds. Finally, after several > times of doing this, it does eventually turn on and stays on for a time, so > the good thing is that the house is warm and it's still heating properly, > when on. > We have the utility company coming out to look at it, but I just wondered > what some opinions on this might be. > > I just also found out that our light and gas bill increased significantly; > the gas portion was $358, and the electric was $183. Normally, our electric > is about $70, so I asked that they come out and read the meter for us. > This sounds way too out of range! > > > Claudia > > Join either of my groups; the first is for visually-impaired women, while > the other is for people wishing to discuss homemaking issues. > our-safe-haven- <mailto:our-safe-haven-subscribe%40googlegroups.com> [email protected] > makinghouseworkeasi <mailto:makinghouseworkeasier-subscribe%40googlegroups.com> [email protected] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
