just got a house. It's finally cold out, and my furnace shit the bed saturday night... as did my microwave. WHY IS EVERYTHING THAT MAKES ME WARM FUCKING BROKEN?

It's a 4 year old furnace but there are no parts available for it. it's fucking cold.

fuck you intertherm! FUCK YOU!

that really really sucks.

Damnnnn I feel your pain.


Luckily, I tested my furnace out last month, so when I discovered the gas leaking from rotted out pipes, there was a month to fix it.

Still had some pretty cold nights though. I would wake up with my nipples painfully hard due to the metal shoved through them being so cold. That was the most unpleasant part I think, yes.

Anyway, invest in some heavy blankets and an electric heater until you can get it fixed, and hope your pipes don't freeze.


Furnace replacement is expensive as fuck. My new one plus installation was +4 grand, from a family friend nonetheless. And sincerely, good luck!

Oh man I feel your pain. we used to sleep with the oven on at our old apartment. we could never adjust the heat because the landlord never turned the boiler on.

Go to home depot and get those plastic sheets that you place over the windows. They're only $5 per box and each box has enough for 3 average windows. hang a blanket over them too if you want. keeps the heat in pretty well. also make sure you keep the space underneath doors that lead outside covered. that can help keep in a lot of heat too. you can get rubber things from home depot for around $7. you can get some decent space heaters too, but be careful they blow fuses easily. also, try not to keep your bed next to outside walls or windows. If you have relatively low ceilings you're better off since heat rises.

being poor makes you creative about staying warm

Bandi... MAN DO I FEEL YOUR PAIN!!!!!!!!!!
We bought the house that I live in in October of 2004... Didn't have any problems for about a year. I came home 11-7 shift one morning and the furnace wouldn't kick on... go into the basement and the front plate of the boiler had rotted off and was pissing water on to the blower motor, ignitor electronics and thermostat. Swell. There was $4000 for a new boiler and having it installed. Then the dryer quit. And then the roof started to fucking leak, the water lines in the basement began to leak... home ownership sucks a fat babies' ass.

Posted by bandi just got a house. It's finally cold out, and my furnace shit the bed saturday night... as did my microwave. WHY IS EVERYTHING THAT MAKES ME WARM FUCKING BROKEN? It's a 4 year old furnace but there are no parts available for it. it's fucking cold. fuck you intertherm! FUCK YOU!

What is the model of the Intertherm and what is actually defective?

Lol I'm next, my furnace makes a huge "WHAM" when it kicks on, and guess who does not have an extra $4000 sitting around.

Posted by Esoterik Lol I'm next, my furnace makes a huge "WHAM" when it kicks on, and guess who does not have an extra $4000 sitting around.

That is delayed ignition if the furnace is natural gas or propane. You must have that repaired immediately, you may not have to replace the furnace. You might explode your furnace and at the least you'll damage more components if you keep letting it ignite like that.

Delayed ignition, the combustion chamber is filling with gas until the lower explosion limit is reached, then ignition occurs, and "WHAM"

You might have restricted air flow, you might have a faulty ignitor, or you might have restricted pilot gas flow. You need a service technician immediately.

Also try cleaning the burners, particularly the cross-overs (they are the pipes or wings that go between burners)

If a crossover is clogged, then the flow of ignited gas does not get to the next burner tube in line. That burner tube and any tubes downstream will continue to pour unlit gas into the combustion chamber. Lower explosion limit will be reached, and the chamber will explode based on the presence of a flame at the first burner tube. After consideration of the situation, my top recomendations are the following action...

1) while furnace is running, check to see that all the crossover tubes / wings have full flames accross them.

2) Check the position of the ignitor

Nvr2loud: thanks, it's only been doing this since Saturday and I have a tech coming out. It is tempting to put this off until after Christmas to save $ but I don't want my house exploding! My poor furnace is circa 1973.

Posted by Esoterik Nvr2loud: thanks, it's only been doing this since Saturday and I have a tech coming out. It is tempting to put this off until after Christmas to save $ but I don't want my house exploding! My poor furnace is circa 1973.

The older the better, they are not built the same now. You likely have cast iron burners. Check the crossovers first to see if they are clogged, it is an easy fix if they are. Just wire brush them out and try to light the furnace again.

Posted by Esoterik Nvr2loud: thanks, it's only been doing this since Saturday and I have a tech coming out. It is tempting to put this off until after Christmas to save $ but I don't want my house exploding! My poor furnace is circa 1973.

I suggest that you print out everything that Nvr2loud has stated here and keep it with you while the tech is looking at your furnace. Just in case they try to screw you.

Posted by PorkChopExpress I suggest that you print out everything that Nvr2loud has stated here and keep it with you while the tech is looking at your furnace. Just in case they try to screw you.

The only way that they would try to screw you would be suggesting you replace the furnace just because of its age. If there are many problems with it, perhaps it is time to replace, but generally speaking you can keep an old furnace running for a long time.

Remember, the service person actually has eyes and ears on-site, I am just some guy on the internet who isn't actually standing in your basement

my old boiler was 20x the boiler this Utica is... The downside was that this particular Weil-McClain (Sp?) was from an era that had serious rust issues. It just rotted out.
Since we had this fucking boiler installed, it swills oil like its free and doesn't keep the house warm (i have an air leak in my radiator system somewhere)

My house was a balmy 3 degrees celsius when I woke up this morning. Still no word from furnace dude.

AHHH.

Also, my cat has now learned to steal most of the comforter off of my bed. So at least the cat is warm.

Posted by bandi Also, my cat has now learned to steal most of the comforter off of my bed. So at least the cat is warm.

um, real men have dogs.(but after all, you DO drive a Beetle)
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I kid, i kid.

Stay warm!

LOL

Never really been a dog person. There have been a few prety awesome dogs in my life, but the rest have attacked me. When I was 4 my parents dog bit me in the face and I had to have a pile of stitches around my left eye. I guess it all started there.

Two words...

Maine coons.

Seriously. I have two and they make the greatest bed warmers, especially when they're 30lbs and 15lbs respectively. When it's 20 below up here or the heat's busted, we fight over who gets to sleep with the cats.

Shael

My friend's got a maine coon. I actually think it's a pygmy longhaired cougar.