So I woke up this morning.....NO HEAT!
Now I’d noticed the heat was anemic this past week and kept checking and checking. Finally I called the propane people and asked when they are going to deliver me propane.
“Our driver was out there about three weeks ago and said you had plenty of fuel.”
I told her that it’d been about three MONTHS since I had propane delivery. Of course most of that time was Summer and Fall but I do have a dryer running on propane so it’s not as it if it’s just the furnace using up the propane.
Still and so it’s been anemic and last night, of course, I was freezing. I check my thermostat at about 6:45 am and it read 56 degrees.
I called here and called yon. My propane people referred to me to a HVAC company, $220 an hour, but they would be there within an hour.
So “Mark” comes, goes into the crawl space....and....more on this.
My husband died in 2013. He had worked at Sears for 30 years and he fixed every appliance in this house, took care of air conditioners, furnaces...yada, yada.
I know that our furnace needed a new filter but had no idea how to replace, what size to buy, etc.
So Mark crawls under the house to the furnace, something I could never, ever do.
He got the furnace running again. I asked him what was wrong.
He told me it was on “lockdown” for an hour, he didn’t know why, but he reset this and reset that.
Then he goes over to the place where the furnace filter is, removed the grate, pulls it out and....in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, it was covered with about three inches high of dust.
Mark puts the grate back and tells me to get another filter. He also told me that this was probably why the furnace shut down. And recall how anemic the heat was last week, so much so that I’d called the propane people.
Mark told me I could have re-set the fuse on the furnace at the breaker box because I told him no way could I crawl into that crawl space.
Anyway, it’s working. I am now $220 poorer but I have heat I was terrified of needing a new furnace, going without heat with all my pets....scared out of my mind.
DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR FURNACE FILTERS!!!
Could shut down your heat.
Take that filter outside and carefully whack it against something to get that dust off. You will still need to replace it, but letting the furnace get some oxygen might keep it from shutting off again in the meantime.
Anyway, it’s working. I am now $220 poorer but I have heat I was terrified of needing a new furnace, going without heat with all my pets....scared out of my mind.
DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE YOUR FURNACE FILTERS!!!
Could shut down your heat
...change every 2 months and make sure arrow points right way.