Damn heat quit working!

[Psychoholic]

The furnace for downstairs quit working - it was like 55 degrees when I got up.

Fortunately the one upstairs is still working and it's a nice 67 in here right now.

But after living in the other house with space heaters and propane heaters for 2 years without central heat - fuck that! I've got a call into the builder and if I haven't heard from his ass by noon I"m just going to call someone out and send the builder the bill.

Glad I can work from home today.

Chris

[Guest]

that sounds like my house. 5 gas space heaters, set into the fireplaces.

[Bob Kinee]

Is your house set up for gas, electric, or oil heat?

[Psychoholic]

We have heat again!

Turns out it was a pressure switch. House was still under warranty, so it was FREE!

[Morella]

We have a HVAC system on the roof, well over 20 years old, that I've repaired three times.

I put in a new condensor fan when the A/C wouldn't cool. That one didn't involve any troubleshooting at all...it just wasn't spinning.

I bypassed the start delay circuit for the compressor in the unit. There was another one inside the thermostat, so it wasn't needed.

Last year the heat went out. There is a bellows switch next to a fan that wasn't making contact, which turned out to be because the fan was frozen. A new fan would have cost $300, so I freed it with Marvel oil and relubricated it.

It's not too hard to repair anything electrical. There's usually a wiring diagram, and you just get out your meter, believe in yourself, and take a logical approach to troubleshooting.

-denise

[northgahearse]

i put a thermostat thingy on my wall but still it don't make heat is there other parts i need .. i tired of spliting wood for heat

[Morella]

It depends on what kind of unit it is. How old is it? Is it gas? It could just need the gas valve turned on...many people turn them off in the summer.

The old heaters used thermostats, and that was almost always the problem. Newer systems need a power feed, usually a circuit breaker and/or a reversible fusebox, and have have combustion blowers and thermoswitches. They're a little more complicated, but not all that bad compared to, say, the autothrottle system on a 747.

-denise

[dead ed]

Me electric went out Frtiday morn from 4:30 to 7:00. Cold as a witches tiddy. Transformer froze. Go figure, Livin in South Carolina.