watdot
Mar 21, 2009, 09:02 PM
My not-very-new Trane gas furnace has been struggling intermittently for many months. It's only gotten really bad about 3 or 4 times.
Here's what it does:
- Quiet clicks I can hear when standing next to it, about 2 per second
- Loud clunking noises about once every 5 or 6 seconds, I can hear it upstairs
- When I look through the vent I see the little blue flame coming on after each clunk, but then it goes off.
- When things are working well, the blue flame is followed by the ignition of the whole bar, red flame.
Sometimes it takes a few minutes to turn on, sometimes a few hours, and a couple times it's gone for a half a day or more. Click, click, click. I've had it serviced twice. No improvement. The furnace repairman suggested I turn on the fan for a while, then switch to auto (for heat). This might have helped a few times, but it's not helping today.
Anybody have suggestions? It's 53 degrees in here! (I'm reluctant to call the same guys whop charged me $120 not to fix it a month ago.)
Here's what it does:
- Quiet clicks I can hear when standing next to it, about 2 per second
- Loud clunking noises about once every 5 or 6 seconds, I can hear it upstairs
- When I look through the vent I see the little blue flame coming on after each clunk, but then it goes off.
- When things are working well, the blue flame is followed by the ignition of the whole bar, red flame.
Sometimes it takes a few minutes to turn on, sometimes a few hours, and a couple times it's gone for a half a day or more. Click, click, click. I've had it serviced twice. No improvement. The furnace repairman suggested I turn on the fan for a while, then switch to auto (for heat). This might have helped a few times, but it's not helping today.
Anybody have suggestions? It's 53 degrees in here! (I'm reluctant to call the same guys whop charged me $120 not to fix it a month ago.)