Our Furnace Went Off This Afternoon….

Was shivering and put on a fleece shirt. Thought it was just me because I had set down and rested after cleaning up the kitchen. Then the boy started feeling cold too and looked at the thermostat. The temperatures had fallen a bit in the house, no heat coming from the vents either. He is enrolled in his second year of high school Vo-Tech for heat & air. Said he didn’t think he could fix it because he didn’t have the tools for it. His grandpa called our heat & air guy. He said he off of work and wouldn’t be back on duty for work till tomorrow morning and that just about all heat & air places would tell us the same thing. So the boy & him went back out into the garage and gave the furnace a look-over. Said the there was no flame, the fan was going. The boy decided to check the automatic pilot igniter. He thought it needed to be cleaned. They spent about 30 minutes total and he got the igniter cleaned and it started working again. Then he said something interesting. If you don’t have the ultra fine grade of sandpaper that they clean the igniters with you can use a dollar bill and it will do the trick. So that’s what he used.

I spent that time thinking of what all we could do until tomorrow to get some heat in the house….start baking things in the oven, use the gas fireplace, take the small space heater in the garage and put it in the back bathroom, etc. Didn’t need to do any of that.