FURNACE CHAMBER

JIMBO_2

I have an old furnace that will be coming out to make way for a new boiler. However, in the meantime, I need to have it "work" and heat their house until we're scheduled for removal. My question is this: The chamber has a hole in it, but the steel walls are yet all right. Any ideas on how to make this hot air beast survive for a month or so? I've been told to try stuffing stone wool into the hole, and it'll make it for a good while. Any ideas?

Mark Hunt

Best way to make it livable


is to go live someplace else until the new system is in.

You have to be kidding?!?!?!?

DO you REALLY want to live in a house with a potential CO hazard?!?!?!?

And do you REALLY expect one of us to give you an "answer" to that question?

It is broken and poses a potential health hazard to your entire family. If you choose to stay there, you do so at your own risk.

Anyone that tells you otherwise is a fool.


Mark H

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Robert O'Connor_6

Agree

With ya whole heartedly Mark.

Did ya know in Maine the code allows for closing the gap in a H/X with furnace cement for up to 45 days?

I never do it.

But if the H/X is ok and it's just a chamber problem well then thats a judgement call...

All the best

Robert

ME

Firedragon_4

If you mean that the

heat exchanger is still intact, but that the combustion chamber is defective, pull the chamber and go chamberless.

In the 1970's my good friend Ed Besch on the West Coast did a lot of playing around with chamberless firing of furnaces and found it will work as long as the draft is good and there is no flame impingement on the base.

Later, in the 1980's I did a few myself and also found no problem. BNL has also said that in some designs they question the use of a chamber, it's an OEM thing and it should be, FACT!

If in fact the heat exchanger is cracked don't run it. I don't know where you are, but the bad weather hasn't got to the Northeast just yet and I would also move them up on my install list, JMO!

BTW, if you do go chamberless cut the firing rate in half, it would probably get them through until January, and test!

curiousity kills

furnace

Buy a spaceheater and live!!!!!!!!!!!