A home owner should keep a spare flame sensor and an igniter for their furnace. These items are available via the Internet for about 1/10 of what a service company will charge you. You can also purchase the fans for your furnace. Fans last a long time, 10-15-20 years typically. They normally only die when you have house guests during the holidays.

Thanks for the advice. Your video was the first one in the list when I searched furnace maintenance.

Thank You for the Tips. My Moms furnace was acting up and I went over today and fixed it , thanks to you. happy Holidays :)

Thank you so much for this you don't know how much of a blessing this was!!!

Thanks John. After cleaning the heating sensor, we now have heat. God bless.

awesome video! very helpful. thanks for sharing!

12:46 Perfect explanation of how it works! Thank you.

Thanks for the video John. Greetings from Holland;-)

Ahh. The flame rod...scraped it...and voila- HEAT. Thank you sir.

@RyanMinaker

7 жыл бұрын

so now if your flame goes out your furnace can just keep spewing out methane

@Robert-fq5wx

5 жыл бұрын

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very nice, complete and geared for DIY.

Thank you Sir for sharing your knowledge!!!!!!!!!

Great vid very helpful had a igniter go out last nite

Very true! The smallest things can cause the biggest problems. ✅✅✅ great video man! God Bless!

Thanks for the video. How about checking the burners how is done?

ur a damn good teacher. Pls do a video on residential boiler odors, weird noises and their meanings. My boiler started to make a whistling noise and give off a burnt material odor today and I got nervous and cut it off !

Great job John. Keep helping Salt Lake City homes stay in great condition. All Utah Home Repair is great!

Very helpful! Thanks!!

dude!!!! your the man. Save me 100 bucks.

Thank you ! Thank you ! Very helpful 👍👍👍

Very good knowledge Sir

Very helpful, would have liked the camera to zoom in closer but still helpful, thanks!

I didnt know how to get the cover off of my heater untill this video, thx....my system is past due for a cleaning....I recently had construction in the basement and alot of that construction dust was sucked into the heater when it was running and it really doesnt perform as well as it use too

////////Please: can you create a video, how to get the part number and the best websites to order parts for furnaces and how to order equivalent part if we can't find the original part? thank you

Can you help me, I have a 90+ propane furnace that I need to do a check up and what all are involved in cleaning it? Thanks

very helpful...thanks

good job john

I subscribed, Thank you !

thank you very helpful regards

When I open the front cover for vacuuming inside the firnace, there was something like filter attached to that front cover. That filter kind of thing was very dirty and broke. What do we call that one? It is round fiber something. Where to find it. Can we turn on furnace without that? Just closing the front cover? Can I add just something fireproof there like basement wall insulation cut in to round and attach there?

Very well done

good detail thank

good job !

Great video what not..Thanks

Well done - You should make more videos :)

thank you I give u two thumbs up

should we have the unit on or off. I didn't hear you say to turn the furnace switch off

Good tips. My inducer motor is heating up and not spinning freely. Makes a squeaky sound. Where is the maintenance tip for that on a new Lenox Heater?

what kinda cloth did he used?

After my blower shuts off, it starts back up in a minute or two and run for another 30-60 seconds. I presume that is because it cools the sensor but the heat exchanger still has quite a bit of heat in it and eventually heats the sensor back up to run the blower some more.

I recently got a job as a hvac helper, and my boss cleans the Burn Sensors with a specific hand whips that has like this green patches on it. Comes in a black bucket with a red top I forget the name. I thought the way you did it john was a bit dangerous being that youre using a razor the way you were lol. But if it works, then I guess it works out.

I love all the WHAT NOTS!

A lot of the new high efficiency Carriers have very difficult to remove flame sensors.

Thankyou!! At 11:37 I think you have a ghost reaching out!! It says something I can’t make it out lol. No I’m not crazy lol

@mariajara6791

4 жыл бұрын

Mikey O’Donnell yes!!!

@scottabrams5494

3 жыл бұрын

I hear it too.

@scottabrams5494

3 жыл бұрын

Look inside...

@IDVDalot

3 жыл бұрын

mamma mia! How fast can you get out of that attick!

@djesquire12

3 жыл бұрын

Its at 11:35. I definitely hear it.

i just want to say thank you for cleaning the flame sensor with an abrasive. ive been told countless times to use non abrasive or "dollar bill" and not one time has an instructor been able to give me a confident or concise answer. i quit using non abrasive the first month of doing service work after the call backs started rolling in. the way i see it is if you verify low current before you clean it verify the micro amps there is no difference to a board. after 10+ years ive only ever replaced a flame sense rod because i broke it.

Thanks John for the video. If a furnace (mostly in heat mode) has been operating for a few months without an air filter at the intake (which is located in the hallway). Should i do anything differently than what you described in this video? Thank you!

@Hvacmania

6 жыл бұрын

there is a radiator looking thing inside that box that is above furnace named evaporator.. may need to be cleaned . open doors and you will see it . look on top and bottom around . look for debree of any kind remove .

@davidm7824

3 жыл бұрын

never ever run a furnace without an air filter!!!!! if you do, you are asking for trouble. never ever use a blade or knife to clean a flame detector it will damage it. use a scotch brite pad to remove the carbon off.

Good video make more

There is also the humidifier filter

Thank you for your video, appreciate it, now I have an idea what the Tech. will do when he/she comes to clean my Furnace. Going to schedule 1 soon.

Great

can somebody help me one of my air vents was open and 3 pieces of paper went in and were do i look for them or what should i do

@Hvacmania

6 жыл бұрын

blower motor. KILL POWER TO UNIT

The care taker here told me if I hold the filter up to a light bulb and I can see the light it is a good filter [ the filter black as tar not changed for two years, two rays of light shone through.] Can this be right? I took care of my home furnace and this is exactly 180 degrees from what I learned years ago.

@spencerhansen8374

2 жыл бұрын

Two rays of light isn't "seeing the light", just replace it twice a year minimum and call it good.

Thank you very much. and what not :)

thanks for the info i just buy a town house and i need to know how to deal with furnace when is time to check any minor problem or clean up and by the way i did hear the voice but i hear this just when i read the other comment about the voice ...

Красавчик!

right before 9:00. The oils of your fingers on the igniter switch tip will cause tip to crack, furnace not to work and new part needed & installed. that fact should be emphasized for sustainability.

Good info and what not.

Great informative video! the editing could be a little cleaner. Close ups with the camera are helpful

at 11:35 there is the faint whisper and it does not sound like a human at all you really have to turn up the audio to hear it but its low key creepy. But the video was very informative as well.

That filter catches rocks....

no testing of the blower cap !

Very good video however you didn't verify furnace circuit was deenergized. I find this to be the biggest mistake. Yes, the switch SHOULD cut the power but finding out the hard way is never a good way.

WHAT NOT! LOL

This video just save my landlord a sue

Video would have been perfect if the camera man would zoom in to each part he talks about. Can't see anything from that distance.

They wanted 185.00 dollars to do what u just showed us thank u

Will a clogged coil cause it to short cycle. Gas Furnace

@Hvacmania

6 жыл бұрын

yes

Good video and whatnot

Update anyone please!!! when I set thermostat to 69 degrees when it reaches that temperature the furnace turns off like its suppose to but blower stays on. Now when I bring setting to 71 the blower turns off after furnace like its suppose to. What can explain this phenomena????

5:30 but that's the only part I am qualified to work on. :)

I don't have gas/ oil

I don't mess around with that mess!!! Any wrong move that mess explodes 😬

that light switch disconnect can easily be turned on accidentally. a plug would be harder to reconnect accidentally

@jasonvoorhees8545

2 жыл бұрын

There's usually a 2nd safety door switch that'll prevent the accidental starting of the furnace when the door is off and the furnace is being worked on.

@Hvacmania

2 жыл бұрын

@@jasonvoorhees8545 oh OK 👌good thinking

Thank you What Not.

Whatnot...

your actually not suppose to use emory cloth on a flame sensor, I can see the knife even being worse. A really really fine sand paper is the proper way.

@TheDime4life

9 жыл бұрын

I would even say use 0000 steel wool

I agree with other viewers that the cameraman sucks. He is way too far away and you cannot see the details of the Flame sensor or the burners and other things. Get up in that furnace his face. It’s almost like a cameraman couldn’t get close because he had some contagious disease and the HVAC tech didn’t want to get sick.

Cleaned system so half the things you mentioned were not done by you or what not.

interrupted pilots don't always burn

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I just heard the "lets die" voice. Is this basement HAUNTED

@akoonjb

8 жыл бұрын

holy shit i just heard it.. lettsss DiIE

@Hvacmania

6 жыл бұрын

Karen Taylor 5:00?

@mikegarrison889

5 жыл бұрын

creepy

What-not.

Computer board? Bro cmon. Integrated fan control

Thanks for the tips but I didn't really like this video because of a few reasons. you should have been cleaning a DIRTY one, the closeup were crappy, so you could show like before and after closeups bla bla bla

This guy must have said "what not" about 150 times in this video.

Go to 5:18. That's when he actually starts.

anyway around not sniffing it lol like soap or something

Who’s whispering

that's cheap dryer hose on 2,700 heating unit red flag.

@PROSDIY

5 жыл бұрын

Doesn't look like dryer vent to me. They make flexible gas vent. Looks like Z-Flex or Selkirk.

Never ask customer/resident to perform any maintenance . Filter check for gas leaks, that's it. Check operation of their thermostat.

@spencerhansen8374

2 жыл бұрын

He's talking to competent but non professional diyers, not his clientele.

11.34 Satan?

This is how you maintain your furnace: Call a professional. People who not qualified should not be attempting to repair a gas fired appliance unless you are willing to risk the entire property and everything and everyone in it.

@spencerhansen8374

2 жыл бұрын

Maintenance is not repair. Many competent people can do their own maintenance without having to call or be a professional. You, particularly, should keep calling the pros.

Lol I’m sure you recommend I call a professional :/ like this is rocket science. I’ll find another video

Why are you showing the general public this you’re ruining our fucking trade

11:35 -11:37. Well....that was creepy.