Just cuz I know you are dying to know…
So the furnace was making a horrible racket and shutting off frequently. We first noticed the problem when old eagle nose Robin detected a burning odor. We tracked it down to the furnace. From the noise going on and watching what happened when I took the cover off I was 80% sure it was the blower motor. The odor was from poor combustion that resulted from the abrupt termination of the rotation of the squirrel cage pushed by the blower motor. Besides a bad motor it could have been several other things, a bad capacitor, a fault on the control board… I’m not up on the entire diagnostic tree for furnace ailments.
It has been cold here, below freezing. I found a HVAC company that at least on various web sites had good reviews. They would come out, even with the icy roads, $99 service call fee, plus any repairs extra. The young man who came out was very personable, very professional, he quickly diagnosed the issue after a discussion with yours truly and an examination of the motor/capacitor with a multi-meter. It was indeed a bad blower motor. The company carried a generic motor on the van that would work for most furnaces. They wanted $900 Continue reading “Baby, It Is Cold Inside!”