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The nightmare which has been my furnace will not end.
Last week, I turned my furnace on for the first time of the winter season. Right away, the furnace didn't light, the repairman said that it was a faulty valve, and it needs to be replaced.
I give the go-ahead and the by the end of the day he call to let me know that he had put in two new valves and a new board, and still it didn't want to work.
He said that at this point (when figuring all of the labor $ that has gone into it so far) it would probably be better to just get a new furnace alltogether. I was torn, the one that he was working on wad 6 years old, not exactly new, but not old. I told him to get one ordered up and he said that it would be a few days before he could get it installed.
In the mean time, I had called the gas company to come out and just take a look at the lines to the furnace, just to make sure those were ok. They were, but in talking to the guy, he told me about taking a look at the manifold, just to make sure that the holes for the gas are clear.
He took a thin wire and cleaned it out. Sure enough, the damn furnace roars to life. All is good on this earth. I have heat. I was in the process of calling the repairman (who, was recommended to me by two seperate friends) when I noticed that the damn thing wont stay on for more than 2 minutes without shutting itself off and starting back again in a continuous cycle. The repairman comes back out and acuter taking a look at it he is totally stumped. He doesn't know what the problem is.
He still reccomends the new install that would solve all of the problems that I am having with the furnace, and after getting a pretty fair deal for the unit and install, the new one went in. I get a call at the office from the repairman, and he says it is installer and it is running like a top. I get home, it had brought the temp in the house up to 70 and so I shut it off because it was an unseasonably warm day.
I go to turn it on again today, and I have the same problem! It is caught in this unending cycle of running for 2 minutes, shutting off, and then immediately starting back up again. What the hell is going on? I'm about to go crazy! Please help with any advice.
tl;dr. After installing a brand new furnace because the old one was constantly cycling on and off every couple of minutes I am still having the same problem! What is possibly wrong with my hvac system?
Last week, I turned my furnace on for the first time of the winter season. Right away, the furnace didn't light, the repairman said that it was a faulty valve, and it needs to be replaced.
I give the go-ahead and the by the end of the day he call to let me know that he had put in two new valves and a new board, and still it didn't want to work.
He said that at this point (when figuring all of the labor $ that has gone into it so far) it would probably be better to just get a new furnace alltogether. I was torn, the one that he was working on wad 6 years old, not exactly new, but not old. I told him to get one ordered up and he said that it would be a few days before he could get it installed.
In the mean time, I had called the gas company to come out and just take a look at the lines to the furnace, just to make sure those were ok. They were, but in talking to the guy, he told me about taking a look at the manifold, just to make sure that the holes for the gas are clear.
He took a thin wire and cleaned it out. Sure enough, the damn furnace roars to life. All is good on this earth. I have heat. I was in the process of calling the repairman (who, was recommended to me by two seperate friends) when I noticed that the damn thing wont stay on for more than 2 minutes without shutting itself off and starting back again in a continuous cycle. The repairman comes back out and acuter taking a look at it he is totally stumped. He doesn't know what the problem is.
He still reccomends the new install that would solve all of the problems that I am having with the furnace, and after getting a pretty fair deal for the unit and install, the new one went in. I get a call at the office from the repairman, and he says it is installer and it is running like a top. I get home, it had brought the temp in the house up to 70 and so I shut it off because it was an unseasonably warm day.
I go to turn it on again today, and I have the same problem! It is caught in this unending cycle of running for 2 minutes, shutting off, and then immediately starting back up again. What the hell is going on? I'm about to go crazy! Please help with any advice.
tl;dr. After installing a brand new furnace because the old one was constantly cycling on and off every couple of minutes I am still having the same problem! What is possibly wrong with my hvac system?