Gas and Oil Home Heating Furnaces - Furnace Problem
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coldfeet
01-05-03, 07:23 PM
my furnace sometimes doesnt kick on,of course its usually at night ,but anyway,all i have to do is throw switch on thermostat off then on again and its fine for a while?dont know what to do
Sharp Advice
01-05-03, 08:43 PM
Hello coldfeet. Welcome to the Heating & Cooling forum & the Do-It-Yourself Web Site.
The professionals in this forum topic will most likely need much more additional specific and detailed information about the heater and the current problem condition in order to provide you with the correct possible solutions.
What type of heating system are you referring to exactly??
A Hydronic Hot Water Heating System?? Radiators? Baseboards?
Forced Hot Air Heating System? With / Without Air Conditioning?
Boiler Hot Water Heating System? Baseborad or Radiators?
Natural gas or propane fuel?
Electric Heat Pump Heating and Air Conditioning System?
In depth and detailed information regarding the problem, helps to explain the situation your dealing with in a manner that allows myself and or several other professionals in this forum to offer the best possible helpful suggestions and professional advice.
Also provide the units brand name, year, model, serial numbers, if available. The type of ignition system and the location of the heating unit, recent repairs, etc. All detailed information you can provide please do so.
All additional detailed information you can provide may help to expose a clue or clues regarding the heaters current problem and help us to determine the exact repair to correct and or resolve the problem.
Your assistance in this matter would be helpful & beneficial.
To add more information, please use the REPLY button. Doing so, the additional information you add will remain within this posting {Thread} and allow the professionals in this forum to follow the topic and reply back to you with helpful advice and suggestions.
Suggestions:
Read the manufacturers online web site for product information, problem solving methods, disassembly, reassembly methods, repair procedures and instructions, pictorials and schematics, which may be available online.
Retail parts dealers can also help determine what the possible problem may be. Bring the make, model and serial numbers if you stop in at the store. The info will help to determine the possible problem causes.
Read the recent questions within this forum pertaining to hot water heater topics. Chances are the topic, condition and or problem has already been covered in complete detail.
These prior postings and any or all the replies offered within them contain almost all the required information needed pertaining to the many potential and or possible problems with the heating unit like your describing.
To save time, search this forum and the Gas Appliances forum for topics & subjects on heater problems. In doing so you'll find the same or similar problem questions already asked. The reply or replies contained within the question will be all of the possible solutions.
Be sure the electrical power to the appliance is turned off, the thermostat is turned down and the gas control valve is in the off postion before attempt any repairs.
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The professionals in this forum topic will most likely need much more additional specific and detailed information about the heater and the current problem condition in order to provide you with the correct possible solutions.
What type of heating system are you referring to exactly??
A Hydronic Hot Water Heating System?? Radiators? Baseboards?
Forced Hot Air Heating System? With / Without Air Conditioning?
Boiler Hot Water Heating System? Baseborad or Radiators?
Natural gas or propane fuel?
Electric Heat Pump Heating and Air Conditioning System?
In depth and detailed information regarding the problem, helps to explain the situation your dealing with in a manner that allows myself and or several other professionals in this forum to offer the best possible helpful suggestions and professional advice.
Also provide the units brand name, year, model, serial numbers, if available. The type of ignition system and the location of the heating unit, recent repairs, etc. All detailed information you can provide please do so.
All additional detailed information you can provide may help to expose a clue or clues regarding the heaters current problem and help us to determine the exact repair to correct and or resolve the problem.
Your assistance in this matter would be helpful & beneficial.
To add more information, please use the REPLY button. Doing so, the additional information you add will remain within this posting {Thread} and allow the professionals in this forum to follow the topic and reply back to you with helpful advice and suggestions.
Suggestions:
Read the manufacturers online web site for product information, problem solving methods, disassembly, reassembly methods, repair procedures and instructions, pictorials and schematics, which may be available online.
Retail parts dealers can also help determine what the possible problem may be. Bring the make, model and serial numbers if you stop in at the store. The info will help to determine the possible problem causes.
Read the recent questions within this forum pertaining to hot water heater topics. Chances are the topic, condition and or problem has already been covered in complete detail.
These prior postings and any or all the replies offered within them contain almost all the required information needed pertaining to the many potential and or possible problems with the heating unit like your describing.
To save time, search this forum and the Gas Appliances forum for topics & subjects on heater problems. In doing so you'll find the same or similar problem questions already asked. The reply or replies contained within the question will be all of the possible solutions.
Be sure the electrical power to the appliance is turned off, the thermostat is turned down and the gas control valve is in the off postion before attempt any repairs.
Web Site Host & Gas Appliance Moderator.
TCB4U2B2B.....Company Enterprises.
Energy Conservation Consulting Services & Gas Appliance Diagnostics Technician Services.