When you get done testing your furnace I want you to compare it to the levels in cigarette smoke.
Just for shits I was doing some research on it and found out a wood burning stove is more dangerous than just about everything except for cigarette smoke. The levels of CO in cigarette smoke blew me away so I’m really curious what your readings will be.
Truth.
splurge now and get AC. Its more expensive to upgrade later. even if you dont tell the wife and dont use it for a while its good to have. +house resale value too
i have been working for a heating and cooling company for 6 years now. if you have the furnace i would do a replacement for 400$ if you dont have the furnace its 400$ plus parts shoot me PM or call my cell 570-2139 and cracked heat exchangers are very common.
sorry just read that. good luck
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I need an air return run to my upstairs. Downstairs stays cool, upstairs gets shit for air and is hot. You do that as side work also?
i do everything in the heating and cooling world. as for a cold air return upstairs thats rather tricky if your house is older and is ballon construction its easier. but if its a newer home with out ferring out walls amd such its very hard. or you could put a monster return at the base of the stairs and pull air down the stair well. it all depends on what you have pm me if you’d like
You can buy a name brand furnace on ebay, a new one, and have it freighted to your house.
Let the pro put it in for 400 bucks or whatever…
You can get a good furnace for around 1k
i thought u needed to be a contracter to buy a furnace?
i am a contracter, also gas tight certified and EPA certified (means i can buy and work with refrigerant) just FYI
is my statement correct though?
no any joe can go in and buy one you just need to know where to go
So… my exhaust has a nice POS thermal baffle thing opens a minute or so after the burners light… (I’ll replace that eventually too.)
I put my fancy monitor near the vent for that minute as it has no place else to go and just fills the basement… and guess what… 0ppm of CO, and 20.6% O2(down from 20.9%).
I also stuck it into an open register… 0ppm CO. If I breath to wards the monitor, it goes crazy because the O2 drops below 19.5%…
The guy is supposed to come back next week to sell… Err show me the problem.
I hope he can explain how a heat exchanger under slightly positive pressure will
start filling with exhaust fumes. I also want to know why he cut a hole in my duct to spray the HX with water… (I’d imagine it was to highlight a leak)
Yes… they can see freon leaks from A/c with certain chemicals, they can see bubbles from soap, and sometimes they have reactants to highlight leaky points.
good luck.
i have a crack in my oil furnace heat exchanger… its more noticeable with oil as you get a puff of fumes when the blower first kicks on. furnace work is not hard if you are mechanically inclined. i do all my own work and have saved ~2000$ in repairs and cleanings over 7 years.
dunno what im going to do about the crack though. probably put in a used thermopride oil furnace. found one for 100$ that needs a little work.
Brian
Take furnace apart
Find someone to weld heat exchanger
???
Profit
I will Buy CO monitors for the rooms. If I can put it off for a while, I would rather get central air at the same time.
I do have lots of flaky white crap near the exhaust vent… I wonder where that mess comes from?
Water leaking down the chimney?
I’m sure that it had been at some point…
Its was lined before I bought the place in '04.
The basement also had a tone of leaking cracks… so it was really damp back then as well.
(like constant puddles on the floor in the rain kind of damp)
i think there are some certain legalities issues with that… but im not 100% sure.
at least the local furnace place near me said that it wasnt legal to weld them… or the insurance company wouldnt pay if it burned down or something like that.
Brian