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Many of the residential "service companies" here on Long Island don't even employ mechanics who speak English. They call the office and hand the phone back and forth to the homeowner. Usually try to sell new equipment over the phone…

Good job. When can you start?

Good idea to retrofit a spill and rollout as mentioned.

I usually pull the burners and shake them out

Then turn the vac around and blow out the boiler passages. Make sure you have a mask on (and your wife isn't around). The dust settles in minutes.

I agree that a bad chimney or lack of draft usually shows up as a coked-up nozzle, burned retention head or blast tube, melted coupling, soot on the floor around the burner and soot-stained electrodes.

Don't assume that the MFGs are always right or know what they are doing because they don't.

Some of you may recall an Adams oil fired furnace I installed about 7 years ago that I posted about.

The HX was NG on the initial start up because the factory "forgot" to weld a steel plate in the hX.

Another time it was a Miller oil fired furnace for a trailer, again brand new with a bad spot in one of the welds.

Williamson at the very least should cover the cost of and supply a new HX.

It's only going to cost them $200 or so + shipping

Lawsuits cost more than that.

I would make them eat it.

I would also tell the supply house to put pressure on Williamson or they will lose your business.