Well, the weather is finally cooling down around here plus so it’s almost time to turn on the gas furnace for the first time this year.
I always make it a top priority to go downstairs to the gas furnace room to check everything out before I turn the temperature control over to heating.
I l earned the hard way a few years ago that there might be things lurking in your gas furnace plan that you don’t very want there! Several years ago when the weather started cooling off in the fall, I decided that the temperature outside was cool enough to warrant our turning on the gas furnace. I went over to our temperature control component in the hallway plus clicked the switch which changes our HVAC plan from a/c to heating, however then there was a poor sound from the gas furnace room in the basement. This clunking sound was closely followed by some black smoke coming from the heating vents in the floor of the hallway. That’s when I realized that something was very wrong! I ran down to the gas furnace room in the basement plus there was smoke everywhere. I turned on some fans plus opened a window plus eventually, I figured out what the problem was with the gas furnace. There was a huge rats’ nest built in our electric gas furnace plus I believe whenever I turned it on for the first time that year, I incinerated them. It was disgusting, now, every year, I make sure to check out the gas furnace thoroughly before I turn the heating plan on for the first time!