Welcome! Here are the website rules, as well as some tips for using this forum.
Need to contact us? Visit https://heatinghelp.com/contact-us/.
Click here to Find a Contractor in your area.
If our community has helped you, please consider making a contribution to support this website. Thanks!

wall furnace flame recirculation

j1000
j1000 Member Posts: 2
in Gas Heating
I have an older double sided gas wall furnace. The local furnace guy wrote up a problem- my wall unit has flame recirculation - what does he mean and how to fix

Comments

  • RJ_4
    RJ_4 Member Posts: 484
    heater

    Does he mean flame roll-out which could be caused by a blocked, damaged or incorrectly installed flue, does the heater have a fan?  could the heat exchanger be cracked ?   which would require replacement of heater

    There was an error rendering this rich post.

  • Jim Davis_3
    Jim Davis_3 Member Posts: 578
    flame recirculation

    That has got to be one of the poorest definitions of a problem I have heard?  Sounds like he really doesn't know.  Maybe its flame fibulation?  Or flame resonance?  Don't know what any of those mean either.  Obviously he didn't do a combusion test!
  • Techman
    Techman Member Posts: 2,143
    flame ?

    What was your complaint that brought the repair guy to you? Flame rectification?
  • j1000
    j1000 Member Posts: 2
    wall furnace flame recirculation

    I have no idea what he meant - never heard of such a thing. I think maybe trying to get me to buy new unit.



    the unit is pretty old but still works well - no sticky gas valve, no pilot problems, heat exchangers are fine - solid working unit, just old



    I had a couple guys from a different furnace shop stop by and they started up unit and ran without incident. they never heard the term either.



    i hope it is not an intermittent problem.....I am just trying to follow up in abundance of caution



    FYI - it was part of an inspection
  • RJ_4
    RJ_4 Member Posts: 484
    wall furnace

    Call the company that supplies your gas    In a lot of areas they will check your heater free of charge,  and I always recommend a good CO detector in all rooms

    There was an error rendering this rich post.

  • Tim McElwain
    Tim McElwain Member Posts: 4,657
    Perhaps the inspector

    meant that products of combustion were being "recirculated" back into the room. Was this a home inspector? What did he advise you to do? Did he leave the unit shut off?
This discussion has been closed.

Categories