Having our HVAC tech fix our blower fan
I thought that I could make it all Winter without having our oil furnace service, but I was wrong, and initially, I forgot to have our oil furnace tested before the cooler weather and week after week continued to slip by until I decided to just skip it… Although our oil furnace is older, I respectfully have it tested by an HVAC contractor at least twice per year.
- I assumed that if I skipped the servicing this one time that I would be fine, but that wasn’t the case.
When our oil furnace wouldn’t turn on, I was forced to call the HVAC contractor to come repair it. I told him that the oil furnace wasn’t cutting on, and he told me that it could be one of several things. It was possibly a tripped breaker, a terrible blower fan, terrible coils, for a failed sequencer. I didn’t believe what half of those things were, so I told him to look at everything and fix whatever needed to be fixed; but the HVAC professional was at our house for 45 minutes fixing our oil furnace and thankfully, he had our oil furnace running before he left. According to him, it was a faulty blower fan and he was able to fix it that day. The blower fan was “misaligned,” which meant that our oil furnace was providing heat but it wasn’t making it’s way into our house. This was enjoyable news to me because I was ecstatic that I wouldn’t have to pay for new parts. I’m blissful that the HVAC contractor was able to come fix our oil furnace for me, because I wouldn’t have been able to do it on our own.