Fixing a furnace is a lot of hard work, especially when the furnace keeps catching on fire! I have never seen anything like this furnace.
It all started when I was called into an HVAC customer’s home on an emergency visit.
Their HVAC customer said that their gas furnace was spitting flames out of it. I jumped into my heating and cooling van and rushed to the scene, hoping I had all of the heating and cooling equipment for sale that I would need. When I arrived at the home and was led to the furnace, I saw the strangest scene ever. The gas furnace had fire coming out of three or four different spots,and it was making a strange noise. The first thing I did was turn off the gas so that the gas furnace had nothing to feed the fire. After putting the fire out, I checked the air ducts and gas lines for gas leaks, but found none. The gas furnace itself seemed perfectly fine, and I, a heating technician, had no idea what was wrong with the gas furnace. After doing all I knew to do, I left the house, still confused about the gas furnace. Later that week, I was called in again for the same reason. This time I brought a fellow heating technician to see if he could help me find the problems with the gas furnace. Once again, I saw the gas furnace with fire spitting out of it. We turned off the gas and inspected the air ducts and gas lines but found no leaks. The other heating technician was as exasperated as I was. To this day we don’t know what was wrong.