This morning when I woke up, my house felt a little cool. I wasn’t sure why, so I took a bit of a look into it while brushing my teeth. It turns out that I believe my furnace is having its same old problem that it’s had for the last few years. This, combined with my failing air conditioner, makes me think that it’s about time to replace the heating \/ cooling stuff in the house.<\/p>\n
See, here’s the furnace problem: For some reason when I have the grated cover installed on my furnace (as seen here<\/a>), the furnace will occasionally fail to work. As in, it’ll light the pilot, light the burner, then shut the burner off after ~2 minutes. Then the cycle will start over again, and the furnace will short-cycle like that until the house is up to temperature. I’ve found info online saying that the flame sensor could be dirty, but the problem doesn’t happen when the door is removed, so I’m quite confused… The blower also runs and never cuts out, even when the flame is cut off.<\/p>\n So really, I’m just confused.<\/p>\n Coupled with the slow leak in my AC, I think it may just be time to replace things… That’s $2500 I don’t want to be spending, though. :\\<\/p>\n
![as seen here<\/a>), the furnace will occasionally fail to work. As in, it’ll light the pilot, light the burner, then shut the burner off after ~2 minutes. Then the cycle will start over again, and the furnace will short-cycle like that until the house is up to temperature. I’ve found info online saying that the flame sensor could be dirty, but the problem doesn’t happen when the door is removed, so I’m quite confused… The blower also runs and never cuts out, even when the flame is cut off.<\/p>\nSo really, I’m just confused.<\/p>\nCoupled with the slow leak in my AC, I think it may just be time to replace things… That’s $2500 I don’t want to be spending, though. :\\<\/p>\nUPDATE:<\/strong> Maybe some of the folks around here<\/a> will be able to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning when I woke up, my house felt a little cool. I wasn’t sure why, so I took a bit of a look into it while brushing my teeth. It turns out that I believe my furnace is having its same old problem that it’s had for the last few years. This, combined with\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13854,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions\/13854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/DCP_1160.jpg\"){kind=link}