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Post by Cookieluv0105 » Mon. Sep. 03, 2018 6:53 pm

The furnace guys have been here 2 times. First time they did patch work to repair draft. 2nd time they replaced pieces of pipe. They tested timer said it was good. Fire lasted 4 days went out again. Restarted fire only lasted a few hours. There is no setting to adjust draft. Any ideas on why it keeps doing this?

 
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Post by StokerDon » Mon. Sep. 03, 2018 7:21 pm

Welcome to the Forum Cookie,

To help diagnose this, we will need to know your timer, feed rate and air settings, about how tall your chimney is and what it's made of. Pictures help too.

So, I'm guessing these furnace guys said the draft was to low? Did they measure it?

This is pretty common in warm weather but there are a few tricks you can use to keep it going.

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Post by McGiever » Mon. Sep. 03, 2018 10:07 pm

Cookieluv0105 wrote:
Mon. Sep. 03, 2018 6:53 pm
The furnace guys have been here 2 times. First time they did patch work to repair draft. 2nd time they replaced pieces of pipe. They tested timer said it was good. Fire lasted 4 days went out again. Restarted fire only lasted a few hours. There is no setting to adjust draft. Any ideas on why it keeps doing this?
Who gets called to do the routine service work when there isn't an "out-fire"?

Routine work needs done regularly too.
When was the last cleaning and inspections done?
Burn rings conditions in fire-pot needs to be know each season to be good for best continued fire operation.

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