Still Not Heat

[dave4him]

Heater came on just fine yesterday during the day, but last night it wouldnt turn on. Tried moving the little lever up and down and got nowhere. So another night freezing. The service repair guy came and looked at it yesterday, cleaned off the sensor a little. Said it should be working. Going to try replacing the thermostat with a new digital one i picked up last night. Still not sure its going to help. UG

[DaisyMamma]

Oh my. That's not fun!
Do you have an electric or kerosene backup?
Stay warm!

[dave4him]

Nothing. Gas oven is about it

[countrymom]

ask your neighbours if they have an electric heaters, thats what we had to do when ours went out.

[youretooloud]

We don't use heaters very often...but, we do use air conditioners. If I had a repair guy out there, and he just cleaned a little sensor off then said "This should work" and tried to leave, I'd have tackled him in the driveway, and made him CHECK to SEE if it was working before he left. I hate that laziness.

"That'll be $50... I hope it works".

[dave4him]

Its not laziness. It works just fine during the day. But in the middle of the night it doesnt. So its hard to troubleshoot it

[countrymom]

also did he check for mice. Dh changed our filter and he found that a mouse ate a huge hole in the filter.

[countrymom]

Its not laziness. It works just fine during the day. But in the middle of the night it doesnt. So its hard to troubleshoot it

check you thermostat. A couple of weeks ago ours wouldn't turn on (the heat) and we couldn't figure it out either. It didn't show that it needed a new battery so we couldn't figure it out. So dh asked the guy (he repairs them) at work and he told us that our thermostat conked out and we have to buy a new one. Works fine now.

[Sugar Magnolia]

What is this "heater" of which you speak?:: We are still running the air conditioning!

Hope it gets fixed Dave. I don't like cold.

[dave4him]

Well the days are warm, but the nights are pretty cold. We have insulation otherwise i would have invested in some pace heaters by now

[youretooloud]

Hope it gets fixed Dave. I don't like cold.

It's hard to get out of bed when it's cold.

[providerandmomof4]

I feel your pain. It's starting to get pretty cold at night here and our heater is not working. I knew this day would come because it wasn't heating well at the very end of last winter. Then summer came and guess what..had to invest in a new central AC. Grrr....I really envy people with savings right about now.

[MyAngels]

Those sensors are pretty easy to clean. I paid a repair guy $200 a couple of years ago when our furnace wasn't working and all he did was clean the sensor. A week or so later it started acting up again so I googled how to do it and figured it out myself. It was literally one screw, remove the thing and clean it with steel wool, then put it back. I have to do it every now and again when the furnace won't kick on.

[Angelsj]

Check that you are not covering any vents.
We covered a vent to help divert heat to a different room one time. Turns out that was bad and made the furnace not work. :confused:

[Blackcat31]

Its not laziness. It works just fine during the day. But in the middle of the night it doesnt. So its hard to troubleshoot it

The load demand goes up at night, it will run longer and that is when your issue pops up so I would think that you have one or more parts getting ready to go belly up.

I would call the repairman back and tell him he did not fix the issue.