Solution: Leave it to an engineer to try and figure out what is wrong with his furnace before he calls some guy to come out and push a button and charge him $100 to do that. \u201cIf there is a button to be pushed, I am going to push it!\u201d Yes, that\u2019s me talking in third person.
\nThe problem was the furnace would stop working all of a sudden. Krissy and I would come home find the house at 63 degrees, when it is set for 70. Not a good thing, especially when a coworker who lives near me has just spent $4300 to replace his furnace and water heater, and his is only 5 years old, mine is 8 years old. Uh Oh.
\nWell this has been going on for a couple weeks now, I found a solution, I thought, turn the breaker for the furnace off and then back on, and the furnace would operate as usual. The problem still remained though, I would have to do this every couple days, as well as keep tract to see if the furnace was working or not.
\nJust today I\u2019m at my desk, which is downstairs right by the furnace, and I hear it doing something suspicious. Looking at it, I can see that it is igniting the burners, and then turning off soon after. It would do this a few times, and then do some blink code. Well to Google I go, and find out that this is an \u201cIgnition Lockout\u201d Failure. After some research I find the solution, \u201cClean the flame sensor with some steel wool or a steel brush\u201d they say. Ok, sounds good \u2026 um, what is the \u2018flame sensor\u2019? Well I looked a little more, duh, it\u2019s got to be this goofy rod sticking up into the flame.<\/p>\n
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<\/div>\nLooks like I’ve found the solution, I hope. Only time will tell, but as of now the furnace is working.
\n(Oh, House Problem #1 was a broken spring on my garage door, I didn’t post about that though, old news now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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