crankshaftdan II
Well-known member
Ever wake up and know that something is wrong by the stifness in your nose hairs?? My back, legs, arms etc., tell me that I am definately in the ageing process. Last night was a little bit on the cold side here in beautiful s.w. wisconsin! (---15 at 4 a.m.). Cut to the chase, checked my new rotary dial thermostat (scrapped out the set-back cheeepo) read 50 degrees!! I had noticed in the past that the furnace had sort of kicked-off early before reaching the setting on the thermostat and house was feeling on the cool side! I have a older (12 years) 88 percent efficient gas-forced air unit made by Rheem, which has the glow-bar igniter, standard flue exhaust up the chimney. Unit seemed to be clean and not all dirtied up as we have three long haired dogs. I flipped on the thermo to 70 degrees and unit fired up and ran, glow-bar came on and I had ignition, but shortly it shut down on me! It fired up three times again and finally shut off. I did look at the ignition wire sensor as I had cleaned that in fall, along with vacuuming and a new air filter. Decided to remove it (one 1/4" screw) pulled it out and cleaned it with scotch-brite pad + brake clean on rag, re-inserted, closed up the two panels and flipped back on the safety panels and Wallah!!! I now have heat again and the dogs came out from blankets they were hiding under and are my best buddies besides everyone else that resides here! Toasty warm at 68 degrees-Just thought I would throw this out for information in case your furnace doesn't work on these frosty days, I got lucky and I didn't need a service call on sunday plus parts! Cheers