Home Page link

Fixing my furnace by turning on the gas stove (??)

Home| Search | About
Login Password
Register Now! Lost Password?

HVAC Discussions - Heating, ventilation and air conditioning. 

Page 2 of 2       << first < 1 2 Bookmark this page:  YahooMyWeb Yahoo!  Google Google  Windows Live Favorites Windows Live  del.icio.us del.icio.us  digg digg  Add to Netscape Netscape
Subject Author Date
Fixing my furnace by turning on the gas stove (??) Kevin 01-16-2008
If you were  Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options
Posted by Kevin on January 16, 2008, 3:33 pm
On Jan 16, 3:11=A0pm, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
<lloydspinsidemindspring.com> wrote:
> I presumed, when you said "turn on the stove", you meant the top burners.

That is correct, I turned on the top burners.

> If that's the case, try just the oven, without turning on any top
> burners. =A0If the static supply pressure is high, it will probably fail t=
o
> light, also.
> It won't fail necessarily, but bi-metal type gas valves protect against
> high supply pressure. =A0If your stove has a "solid state" (glowing type)
> igniter in the oven, rather than a standing pilot, it will probably have
> the type of valve that will fail to open under high pressure.

I will check that out and test turning on the oven only when I get
home. Thanks again for your replies, I really appreciate your
suggestions.

Posted by Bubba on January 16, 2008, 4:21 pm
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:41:52 -0800 (PST), Kevin

>Hi all, I've had a very strange problem with my furnace lately. It's
>happened about ten times that when the thermostat clicks and it should
>start putting out heat again, the furnace does not turn on. When this
>happens overnight the house temperature drops 15 degrees, or if it is
>during the day we'll notice it after a couple degree drop. So here is
>the strange thing -- to get the furnace running again, I walk over to
>the gas stove and turn on one of the burners, and within 10 seconds I
>hear the furnace start up.
>
>When this first started happening I tried messing with the thermostat
>and breaker in addition to turning on the gas stove, but the last
>several times I've gotten it restarted solely by turning on the
>stove. The furnace is a '91 Janitrol. Does anyone know if it might
>have a gas pressure sensor that prevents it from turning on if the gas
>pressure is too high or low? I was wondering if turning on the stove
>regulates the pressure so the furnace can start up.
>
>I described this to the gas company and they said it sounded like a
>furnace problem, and I called an HVAC friend and he did not have any
>ideas, so I was hoping someone might have ideas or some kind of
>experience with this. Any thoughts are appreciated!
>
>Kevin

I think you should get a new stove.
Bubba

Posted by Dr. Hardcrab on January 16, 2008, 5:08 pm



>>> The furnace is a '91 Janitrol.


Well, there you go......

Posted by =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Tekkie=AE?= on January 16, 2008, 9:01 pm
Kevin posted for all of us...

> Hi all, I've had a very strange problem with my furnace lately. It's
> happened about ten times that when the thermostat clicks and it should
> start putting out heat again, the furnace does not turn on. When this
> happens overnight the house temperature drops 15 degrees, or if it is
> during the day we'll notice it after a couple degree drop. So here is
> the strange thing -- to get the furnace running again, I walk over to
> the gas stove and turn on one of the burners, and within 10 seconds I
> hear the furnace start up.
>
> When this first started happening I tried messing with the thermostat
> and breaker in addition to turning on the gas stove, but the last
> several times I've gotten it restarted solely by turning on the
> stove. The furnace is a '91 Janitrol. Does anyone know if it might
> have a gas pressure sensor that prevents it from turning on if the gas
> pressure is too high or low? I was wondering if turning on the stove
> regulates the pressure so the furnace can start up.
>
> I described this to the gas company and they said it sounded like a
> furnace problem, and I called an HVAC friend and he did not have any
> ideas, so I was hoping someone might have ideas or some kind of
> experience with this. Any thoughts are appreciated!
>
> Kevin
>
Call Billy Mays he'll send KABOOM !
--
Tekkie Don't bother to thank me, I do this as a public service.

Posted by Kevin on March 6, 2008, 2:59 pm
In the event that anyone would find this post and be interested in the
resolution.. I finally got around to getting this looked at and fixed
today. In the past 1.5 months it never failed that every time the
furnace would not kick on it would either be the weekend or an evening
and so cold that I did not want to leave the heat off all night, so I
let the problem go since I did not want to pay the additional $50 for
an after hours call, and turning on the stove was such an easy fix. I
would estimate the furnace had the not-kicking-on problem 40 times,
and of those 35 times it was fixed by nothing other than turning on
the stove burner, and the other 5 times the stove burner did not do it
and I had to shut off the furnace breaker for a few minutes, and it
would kick on when the breaker was flipped back on.

Today was the perfect day -- I noticed the furnace was not on at
6:00AM, and it's a pretty warm day so I decided to call a technician
and leave the furnace in the off state until he came this afternoon.
He did not believe it could be related to the stove, and gave a very
convincing explanation of how it could not be related, and then said
"let's see the stove." I turned on the stove and of course it was one
of the rare times when the stove did not get the furnace to turn on.
He left the furnace off and got out his electrical tester, and quickly
determined the little sequencer was bad, and not opening up (I think
is what he said.) So 30 minutes and $215 dollars later I'm back in
business (hopefully), but I still have no confimation from an expert
on the stove connection, and that I'm really not crazy.

Page 2 of 2       << first < 1 2
Similar ThreadsPosted
furnace vent tube in wall and stove hood vent March 13, 2007, 11:12 pm
6 Ways Fixing A Decorating Mistake June 20, 2007, 10:59 pm
Harman Stove question September 13, 2008, 1:50 pm
FA: Harman 25th anniversary pellet stove September 7, 2007, 11:32 am
(bought furnace off internet now it wont work )New High effiency Furnace dual fan temp goodman ny hvac duct December 8, 2006, 9:55 pm
oil furnace October 11, 2006, 10:09 am
Re: Cat in the furnace November 30, 2006, 2:27 pm
furnace id: ACI December 16, 2007, 10:56 pm
Oil Furnace February 18, 2008, 11:55 am
Furnace Help Please March 13, 2008, 8:15 pm

Contact Us | Privacy Policy

XML SitemapXML Sitemap