New Domestimike 2.0!
Monday, February 6th, 2012So I’m feeling pretty chuffed.
At some point yesterday or last night, my furnace stopped working. I could hear the oil pump turn on and the ignition. But it wouldn’t move any air. I thunked it over a bit and realized that it was likely going to keep running like that if I left it on and achieve a possibly dangerous amount of stored heat in the process.
So I found what looked like an off switch and flicked it off, then proceeded to noodle around, seeing what I could see.
It’s generating heat but not moving the air. There is an additional sound not unlike a computer fan with something stuck in it, but not quite loud enough to be the blower for the whole furnace.
I found another panel with a handle, opened it up and there was a big fan with a motor sitting on top of it, two aligned pullys and a belt… in pieces.
Five stops and an hour long wild goosechase around Newburgh led by crappy auto-naviation software led me to Albro, who had the belts for cheap.
Installing it was almost a disappointment. Looped it over one pully, then rotated the other one ’til it grabbed.
Turned the furnace on and TADA! Heat!
In fact, more heat than I was getting before. Makes me wonder how bad that belt had been slipping, leading me to heat the basement quite so well as I had been.
No big deal. But yes, I’m feeling pleased with myself.
