Posts tagged "furnace"

I’m still working on getting the blog caught up with all of the notable stuff that’s been going on around here since we last posted – and while this might not seem super notable, I thought it was worth including this update to (what feels like) the never-ending saga of our furnace. So, first, some background:…

More Furnace Troubles

From last November thru the end of January, we had all kinds of problems with our Trane XR90 furnace, which resulted in it shutting off and flashing an error code indicating a “pressure switch error”. These issues seemed to be corrected after the last service call at the end of January where the technician lowered…

After about three months of service calls on our furnace, we think it’s finally fixed!!! The service tech started by replacing the motor that failed a couple of weeks ago, but that made no difference. We were able to run the furnace again, but after about 40 minutes, the furnace shut off, flashing the pressure…

We had another visit by the service technician today to try to diagnose the cause of the pressure switch errors on our furnace. The problem had been getting steadily worse over the weekend, with the below-zero temperatures forcing it to run for longer and more frequent cycles. We had problems several times where we were…

Furnace Update

Last Thursday, we had the 4th service call on our furnace since last October in an attempt to fix the problem that’s causing it to flash the pressure switch error code. This time, we had a different technician come to look at it and he had some new ideas on what could be causing the…

Back in November, we started having problems with the furnace in our attic. We’d wake up in the morning or come home from work and notice that the thermostat showed a temperature several degrees lower than what it was set at, but the furnace wouldn’t be running. We’d go upstairs to find a red light…

As if our as-of-yet unresolved problems with the upstairs furnace aren’t enough, Wednesday afternoon, we came home and smelled the aroma of natural gas in our basement. A quick test with some dish soap on a few of the joints on the gas pipe revealed that there was a leak in the elbow of the…

The furnace repair guy came today to take a look at our upstairs furnace, which has recently decided to only work for a couple of hours at a time before giving a “pressure switch error” and shutting off. I guess it’s a little too early to tell if the problem is completely resolved or not,…

Furnace Frustrations

This week was the first real cold snap of the year and our furnace has sadly decided it’s all too much to handle. The most frustrating part is that it’s an intermittent problem. We woke up one morning earlier this week to find that our bedroom was pretty chilly. When Chad went upstairs to investigate,…