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You guys like my click bait title? Big Grin

One of the coldest nights of the year and the pressure switch sticks open on the furnace. No heat last night at all. Woke up to a 60° house.

One of the flue pipes was off. Confused It was the one that draws air in from outside not the one that goes out. Maybe something got in and blocked the pressure switch. I reseated the pipes and unseated and reseated the hoses to the switch and it seems to be working.

Think I should replace it? If it works, it's good, right? It's not a complicated part. I probably should keep a spare on hand though.
 
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You guys like my click bait title? Big Grin


Ha, that was my first thought. Maybe a misleading thumbnail image to go along with it?



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Try this one trick to get it working again!
 
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Excellent click bait title. Big Grin

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Weird old trick.



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Woke up to a 60° house.

That's about the temp I keep the house on at night, I wouldn't have noticed any difference Wink
 
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Woke up to a 60° house.

That's about the temp I keep the house on at night, I wouldn't have noticed any difference Wink


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Furnace gets OWNED by mark123. Click to see what happens next!



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Not quite two weeks ago I had the same thing happen, I have a Service Guard account so it didn't cost anything to have a repairman come out and replace the part. I don't know what the cost would've been if I didn't have SG.


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Not quite two weeks ago I had the same thing happen, I have a Service Guard account so it didn't cost anything to have a repairman come out and replace the part. I don't know what the cost would've been if I didn't have SG.
HVAC guys don't want this information out but mark123 shows this one weird trick to let you know that it costs about $20 for the part and probably $100 for the service call.
 
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I'm jealous though that you can even start to figure out what might be wrong. If it were me, I certainly wouldn't know anything except the furnace isn't working.



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I'm jealous though that you can even start to figure out what might be wrong. If it were me, I certainly wouldn't know anything except the furnace isn't working.
Well, you take off the cover first. Then you hold the safety interlock closed so the furnace starts up. There is usually an LED that will blink if there is an error code detected and the error code list is usually on the inside of the cover. It's pretty descriptive and there is also a schematic of the system on the inside of the cover as well.
 
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Not quite two weeks ago I had the same thing happen, I have a Service Guard account so it didn't cost anything to have a repairman come out and replace the part. I don't know what the cost would've been if I didn't have SG.
HVAC guys don't want this information out but mark123 shows this one weird trick to let you know that it costs about $20 for the part and probably $100 for the service call.


Big Grin Pretty funny, needed a laugh today. Thanks. On a serious note the repairman told me what most HVAC markup the cost of parts, I told him that those guys should have to wear a ski mask and point a gun at you when they make their quote.


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I was thinking the lonely college coed neighbor was also cold and wanted to slip under your covers.
 
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Woke up to a 60° house.

That's about the temp I keep the house on at night, I wouldn't have noticed any difference Wink
Same here. We keep our heater setting at 58.
 
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Mark123 made one service call to HVAC guys and now he gets 9 paychecks each week! His bank statements show that you can too!

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