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offcntrMy furnace tried to kill us this morning.
Was awakened at 5:30 am by four piercing electronic tones. And while we were muzzily trying to figure out the source, they repeated. My first thought was the smoke detector "low battery" signal, but that's a different pitch and tone. But we have a CO detector in the bedroom; maybe it needs new batteries?
Pulled it off of the wall, took it into the bathroom, where there's better light, to try and read the tiny type, and it sounded again. Finally had to take my glasses off--I really need to update my bifocal prescription--to read that one tone means low battery, five tones means replace the unit. Four tones means carbon monoxide is detected.
We have a natural gas furnace, in a small closet off the TV room, so I shifted boxes to open the door, and switched off the power to the blowers. The burners looked yellow and fuzzy, so I figured they needed to be cleaned out, but as long as they weren't circulating to the house, we'd be okay. Just to be sure, I opened the bedroom window a few inches and turned on the fan to pull in some kinda foggy but fresh-ish air from outdoors. Must have worked, the CO detector stopped shouting at us.
This morning, I turned off the gas, blew out large quantities of dust with a can of compressed air, vacuumed the space for good measure. Figuring out how to restart it was a challenge, the instructions are on a sticker underneath the pilot system, not easily visible without standing on your head. Finally got my phone in a position to snap a couple of pics and puzzled out the sequence.
And the pilot wouldn't light. Not even sure gas was coming in to the burner, as flicking a lighter didn't catch the flame either. After three unsuccessful tries, I called our furnace repair place.
They're coming out next Tuesday. Thank goodness for good insulation. And possibly flannel sheets.
Was awakened at 5:30 am by four piercing electronic tones. And while we were muzzily trying to figure out the source, they repeated. My first thought was the smoke detector "low battery" signal, but that's a different pitch and tone. But we have a CO detector in the bedroom; maybe it needs new batteries?
Pulled it off of the wall, took it into the bathroom, where there's better light, to try and read the tiny type, and it sounded again. Finally had to take my glasses off--I really need to update my bifocal prescription--to read that one tone means low battery, five tones means replace the unit. Four tones means carbon monoxide is detected.
We have a natural gas furnace, in a small closet off the TV room, so I shifted boxes to open the door, and switched off the power to the blowers. The burners looked yellow and fuzzy, so I figured they needed to be cleaned out, but as long as they weren't circulating to the house, we'd be okay. Just to be sure, I opened the bedroom window a few inches and turned on the fan to pull in some kinda foggy but fresh-ish air from outdoors. Must have worked, the CO detector stopped shouting at us.
This morning, I turned off the gas, blew out large quantities of dust with a can of compressed air, vacuumed the space for good measure. Figuring out how to restart it was a challenge, the instructions are on a sticker underneath the pilot system, not easily visible without standing on your head. Finally got my phone in a position to snap a couple of pics and puzzled out the sequence.
And the pilot wouldn't light. Not even sure gas was coming in to the burner, as flicking a lighter didn't catch the flame either. After three unsuccessful tries, I called our furnace repair place.
They're coming out next Tuesday. Thank goodness for good insulation. And possibly flannel sheets.
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Date: 2024-11-09 06:22 am (UTC)