tournier
Dec 28, 2006, 08:36 AM
Every three or four weeks the gas regulator for my furnace/hot water heater freezes and cuts off the gas supply. The gas company is excellent about dispatching a truck -- they drain the both the condensate leg under the regulator and the drip leg on the supply and usually push in a couple of quarts of methyl alcohol. That holds me for a couple of weeks.
More information: we are on "well head" gas which, I am told, is commonly wet; there is no realistic possibility of using heating tape as there is no access to electricity where the regulator is sited; I can "fix" the problem by pouring a couple of gallons of warm water over the regulator so I am sure that the problem is a freezing regulator.
Question: is there ANYTHING I can do to minimize the problem?
More information: we are on "well head" gas which, I am told, is commonly wet; there is no realistic possibility of using heating tape as there is no access to electricity where the regulator is sited; I can "fix" the problem by pouring a couple of gallons of warm water over the regulator so I am sure that the problem is a freezing regulator.
Question: is there ANYTHING I can do to minimize the problem?