"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
01/24/2016 at 14:06 • Filed to: None
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
01/24/2016 at 14:06 • Filed to: None | 3
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I wasn’t feeling too hot last night, so I went to bed early. My awesome wife even let me sleep in this morning and handled the kids on her own. Unfortunately I was rousted about 20 minutes later by my 3-year old who said, “Daddy, the house is broken.”
Balls. I dragged myself out of bed, threw on some clothes, and stumbled downstairs. As soon as I get downstairs, I know why I’m there. It’s cold as fuck down there (side note: the second floor of our bungalow, which just had my out master suite and office in it, has a separate furnace). The furnace is blowing cold air.
I threw some shoes on and staggered into the basement. No flame, no pilot light. Tried relighting it, no dice. I figured it needs a new thermocouple, and Dr. Google concurred.
Ok, no problem. I put pants on dammit and headed to Ace Hardware a few blocks away. Shit, not open until 9 am.
Fuck, off to Home Depot, the official store of having everything except what you need and nobody who can actually help you. Much to my pleasant surprise, I quickly found someone who knew exactly what it was, and took me right to a bunch of them. $11.28 later and I’m headed home. Sweet!
I spent 10 minutes looking up videos for how to replace a thermocouple (none of which were helpful), and two minutes actually replacing it.
Showtime. Feeling pretty good about myself. Shit, pilot light won’t stay on. The directions on the furnace say to hold the reset button down for a full minute, I do it for two minutes. Repeat. Cures. Repeat. Don’t curse because my daughter came down. Repeat....
All signs point to a bad control valve, not a DIY job. It’s not cold enough to be worth paying for a Sunday service call, so we’ll be camping out upstairs and I took off tomorrow for a service call.
The good news is I’m feeling fine physically. Also, I could be buried like so many of you on the East coast, do I won’t bitch anymore :)
f86sabre
> shop-teacher
01/24/2016 at 14:11 |
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Sounds like you gave it a good effort. Its all you can do.
Birddog
> shop-teacher
01/24/2016 at 14:31 |
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Oof! Definitely not the making of a lazy Sunday.
Might not be a bad idea to start looking into a new Furnace too.
smobgirl
> shop-teacher
01/24/2016 at 14:31 |
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Other furnace is gas and working, right? I had those symptoms and it turned out to be the meter.
Steve in Manhattan
> shop-teacher
01/24/2016 at 14:39 |
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When the radiators clang in mid-October and the cats crawl under them, I know the heat will be on - if it breaks, someone else will fix it.
I would suggest a couple of those radiator shaped plugin oil heaters for the next mishap. They will heat up a room, even a big one, very nicely. Or you could put in a wood stove/fireplace insert. Back when I lived in rural MD I loved my insert, and chopping wood was good exercise.
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shop-teacher
> smobgirl
01/24/2016 at 16:22 |
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Yeah, the other furnace is working, so that rules out the meter.
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shop-teacher
> Birddog
01/24/2016 at 16:23 |
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We’ll see what the HVAC guy says tomorrow. I’ve got a good one.
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shop-teacher
> Steve in Manhattan
01/24/2016 at 16:24 |
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I went and bought one of those radiators so my older daughter can sleep in her room tonight. The baby can sleep in our room with the working furnace.
fryguy
> shop-teacher
01/24/2016 at 18:27 |
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Where are the Bryant HEATING and Cooling folks when you need them? 1960 Indy 500 - Jimmy Daywalt in the photo but car driven in the race by Dempsey Wilson. Started 33rd and retired after 11 laps in 33rd place. Jim Rathmann wins and his bro, Dick, finished 31st.
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shop-teacher
> fryguy
01/24/2016 at 20:06 |
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Did you look that up, or did you just know that? :)
Larry is my sub tomorrow :o
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fryguy
> shop-teacher
01/24/2016 at 20:10 |
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Did look it up - figured it was 1950's. Could’t ID the driver, so I had to look.