Oil Furnaces Call Your Furnaceman
Oil Furnaces Call Your Furnace-man
Article by Terry S Vostor
While a majority of houses and homes heated for the winter currently use a natural gas or propane furnace many off the beaten path of natural gas lines, at the lake or cottage or just plain stuck with older heating equipment still use “old fashioned” oil furnaces. How do these oil furnaces work, their care and use. What are the simple rules of maintenance for oil based home furnaces?
To begin with in an oil type furnace heat is produced simply when a spray of oil droplets mixed with ambient air ignites.
What care and maintenance is involved with these types of furnaces? It can be said that a few simple maintenance procedures can save you cash from your wallet and heating costs and budget. First when the system is idle, check fir a buildup of soot inside the furnace itself. Additionally check the barometric damper on the pipe between the furnace and the chimney. This valve which enables cold air to be drawn upwards from the basement to the chimney should open easily and freely. If the valve unit does stick, clean and oil those hinges. While shivering with code, it is always a good idea to look up a reputable heating and service company in the yellow pages of your phone book or perhaps on the internet, to arrange for an appointment with a heating repair technician in the not too distant future. It might be a good idea to book a motel for the next several days if you have waited for your furnace to conk out. If its only a simple matter of routine maintenance that is good, if not and your furnace needs replacement be prepared for a long cold spell, and high installation and repair estimates. After all if it is the cold winter season you are not in the best negotiating position. Its not as if you can simply wait out the cold spell.
Make it a point in your yearly ongoing home and building care routines to plan for and insist on annual oil furnace inspection either by yourself or more highly trained and qualified heating and air conditioning staff. The furnace-man should measure the Carbon Dioxide level as the temperature of gases leaving the oil furnace itself. A well tuned oil furnace in good stead should run in the range of low 300′s to the mid range of the 400 degree Fahrenheit temperatures spread: a circulating fan can be used to reduce the temperature if it is found to be too high. If the exhaust gas is not relatively soot free, the burner as well should be “tuned’.
In addition the service-person should remove soot from the firepot, heat exchanger and pipes. Has him or her – the furnace person check the flow of air through the firebox and chimney. Lastly if necessary have them adjust the barometric damper if necessary. Perhaps your local municipality or electric utility has recently offered a subsidy in order to upgrade your insulation levels and R values. If so you may well be a candidate for a most simple and cost saving retrofit. If so have your heating professional simply make the size of the bore in the fuel spray tube smaller. Less heat needed due to that extra insulation in your home – means less heat output necessary from your furnace. A smaller fuel bore means less flow of oil, less fuel use and ultimately more efficient cost effectiveness for you and your wallet.
It can be said that people “take their furnace for granted”. Its only when you are sitting in the dark cold and shivering that most take the time to call their furnace man. However by that time, its peak heating repair season. Calling a furnace repair facility for a service call in the dead of night during a cold January Winnipeg winter is like calling an undertaker for a quote for a funeral that must be scheduled on the very next day. Why not arrange for a routine ongoing maintenance service call now?
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