Originally Posted by Jim in Idaho
Appreciate all the opinions and advice.

Whatever I do it needs to get done very soon. The furnace is working intermittently, yesterday I turned it up and pretty quickly the house was filled with a sort of hot metal smell so I turned it off. Turned it on again last night and nothing - no fan, no gas flame. Turning on the fan alone produced nothing, it wasn't going, so I left it off overnight. Electric blankets rule. wink

Fortunately it's not really cold cold here yet, lows in the upper 30's overnight and highs in the 50's, but the house was a bit chilly stepping out of the shower this morning. Just started the furnace up a minute ago to see what happens and it appears normal, fan is turning and the gas flame is normal. I'll let it run a while to get the house up to a tropical 65 or so and shut it down again.


The smell might be several things.
If you have a cracked heat exchanger and the products of combustion enter the stream of ventilation air it could kill you and the family. God forbid.

https://structuretech1.com/qa-heat-exchanger-cracks-and-carbon-monoxide-myths/

Last edited by Robert_White; 10/19/19.
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