Furnace Heat Exchangers, Venting, and Carbon Monoxide

You have a gas heating system, so whether it's natural gas or it's propane, I want you to make sure that the carbon monoxide detectors have had their batteries changed or are plugged in properly. I want you to make sure that you run those through a test because though you're gonna smell the burning crusties and dusties, you're not gonna smell carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is that silent killer. Nobody can smell it. It is the result of incomplete combustion inside of your heat exchanger on a propane or a natural gas furnace. And frankly, it is an avoidable thing that you should take responsibility of as a homeowner. Make sure you have carbon monoxide detectors, make sure the batteries are changed, and make sure that it's wired in properly, then go turn on your heater

The dusty, crusty, burnt kind of smell, that's fine, whatever. But if you start to smell gas, meaning like kinda like a rotten egg smell, um, that's gonna be like propane and/or natural gas. They smell pretty similar. If you smell like a rotten egg, turn it off immediately, probably shut the gas cock off, and call somebody quickly. Because that means you have gas escaping where it probably shouldn't be. Because if you smell gas at all in your heating system, you need help. You need somebody there to take care of it pretty immediately. Again, also, like if you smell like a burning plastic or like rubber smell, that's another one. That's not gas. That's more indicative of like we have some electrical issues going on or maybe something got into the blower wheel and like during the air conditioning season, it wasn't burning. There was nothing there to burn. But now we have something in there that is trying to ignite and possibly melting and causing more damage

so this is the uh the flu pipe here that's what uh does the exhaust for the the gas and so a lot of times we see like lots of aluminum tape over these because they're not connected properly not a dangerous just kind of like cutting corner so if there's tape over it that means that it didn't either didn't seal right or didn't lock together correctly

today's topic is carbon monoxide poisoning and Roofing we are at a tenant's house they had said they'd been having issues with nausea and getting sick more often notice the flu was a little loose decided to come up into the attic and see what was going on the flu is touching the roof line that's supposed to have a clearance to any and all combustible materials that is disconnected up here as well so even if the flu had been connected down there in the furnace closet it would have been spewing flue gas with a lot of carbon monoxide in it up into this attic space and it would have just trickled back down into the into the living space anyway this doesn't fit doesn't even get close to sliding down over that pipe if you get a new roof and you start feeling nauseous in the heating cycle give somebody a call could be the thing that saves your life

Whenever you turn your heater on for the first time, it's gonna burn that stuff off. Do not panic. This is fine. It's fine. It's just the dust. It's just a little bit of the debris that has settled on your heat exchanger or on your heat strips, depending on what you have heating your home. Whenever you turn your heater on for the first time, do not be worried if you smell the kinda like burning sensation

people like to worry about gas furnaces because it's gas um yes that's that's something to be somewhat worried about but with all the features that you have on this unit you really don't have to worry about anything bad happening as long as you have it regularly maintained they are very very safe when they're properly maintained anytime we have any one of these parts out we need to get them fixed and we need to have those in line because it really takes away from the safety of a gas furnace we've been in the Home Comfort game since 88 here in OKC share this with a friend who's in need of some serious Home Comfort help

this is actually what we call kind of a clam shell style heat exchanger as you can see it's two pieces of metal that are clammed together uh lot of them you'll see are actually um what I call a tube heat exchanger I I prefer the tube heat exchangers over the clam I've had more problems with clam shells than I have tubes heat exchangers can vary on on life expectancy usually you're going to see them last 20 years definitely want to get it inspected because you can see them last 20 years and up that's fine but if you have something obviously this one lasted more than 20 years but you have something like this where you're not getting enough air flow through there we can have problems so that's something you definitely want to have checked regularly for pricing on a heat exchanger is going to vary anything like this I would definitely have it checked out yearly don't go over 5 years if you've been over 5 years I would highly suggest you calling any professional in your area to come and look at it and make sure that it's safe for you and your family that's what I got to say about this heavy thing

when I came up here I found that the flu pipe was disconnected I spoke with the customer and they informed me that they just had a roof replaced about a month ago after they do get done you might want to go up in your attic just do a visual inspection see if there's anything out of the ordinary um because this does happen quite often this needs to stay connected because it disperses the flu gases outside otherwise you're going to have carbon monoxide being built up into the attic it's probably not the safest you know it's not inside but you know you don't want it in your attic either you'd rather have be outside perfect thank you

great tip if you have a hot water tank that is gas or propane make sure that your flu ventilation is properly seated where it's supposed to be you want to make sure everything's connected and it's venting properly because you don't want it to vent inside the house so I'm over the residential house and it looks like flu pipe has been like this for quite a while this can happen because of a weather event high winds hail storm or your roof being replaced make sure your furnace and hot water tank flu vents are venting properly

So, one thing with this flu is it's broken and it was pieced together. One reason why it's bad is it lets the fumes in your house or garage or whatever. This stuff isn't good to breathe in at all. So, you never want a broken just pieced together flu pipe. You you want it to be one piece and sealed properly. So, that that's one negative about just band-aiding these together. [Music]

hey guys i'm over in newcastle oklahoma anyways this is a great reason as to why furnace checks are super important i'm out here for an advisement today um on getting new duck work anyways i came up into the attic and discovered this they can't really do a good job venting if it's not connected so get your heaters checked please [Music]

the next one we've got here looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen we have got a furnace in a closet and the flu pipe is just completely disconnected it is not broke it is just disconnected in the closet that's spewing carbon monoxide into your space y'all uh you can't have that you're going to wake up dead if you ever see open your closet and see something like this you either need to call somebody to get that fixed immediately and shut your furnace off or you know if you if you want to attempt to fix fix it yourself you can do that but until that's fixed you really need to shut your furnace off because that's a that's a dangerous situation [singing]

Hey y'all, this is Stephen with Yarborough & Sons and uh this is a blustery winter day that we got here and I am headed up to Edmond right now to uh look at a furnace. Customer says they're smelling gas and it's not heating. So, we're going to go up there, we're going to figure out what we got going on, uh see if we can figure out where the gas smell's coming from, see what we can do to get it heating again. There you have it, guys. Even with Isaiah singing in the background, you saw where the leak was at. We're going to go ahead and get it fixed up, make sure the heater's working properly, and we'll get out of here. All right, y'all. So, we got the gas leak fixed. We actually ended up finding another one, getting that one fixed as well. Had to call back up on that one to get some help on how to fix it. Thank you to James and the plumbing team uh for helping me out on that. You had a little bit of fun, did a flame test on it, made sure the flame wasn't leaking or anything like that, going over any leak spots. Got the water heater relit. They had also complained about the basement furnace not operating properly, uh saying that it was cold in the basement. Well, when we got there, um of course, you know, we we shut it off, made sure that the gas leak was fixed, and then once we got that done, went on to looking at the basement unit, and all the situation was with that was the the thermostat was set to cooling, and it was set to cool to 75. It was 61° down there. So, we turned it on to heat after we got done, made sure that it fired up from that thermostat and all of that. Uh everything's working perfectly. Uh don't see any issues at all with that unit. We're going to head on back south, and I'll see you in the next one. >> Yarborough >> [music]

this is customer's least favorite thing for me to do to their unit but it's already ruined H let's see what this heat exchanger looks like see if we can see any potential problems now these are uh my least favorite heat exchangers and now we can see exactly exactly why this one was replaced you can see right here is a crack right here is a crack I'll show you what I mean by crack that's letting in carbon has the potential of letting in carbon monoxide in your house that's uh very dangerous for somebody who does heat and air work I see it often

So, if your flue pipe is disconnected inside or outside of the unit, all that carbon monoxide is not going out your roof. It's just dumping into your attic. Sometimes referrers that don't mean to, but they can knock the the flue pipe loose. And then if it comes detached inside the attic from the unit, you've got a gas furnace, all that carbon monoxide again is just leaking out into the attic in the conditioned space. It can leak into the conditioned conditioned space down below. So, yeah, that's super dangerous. So, that's why it's so important to get eyes on this equipment regularly. Your pros. >> [music]

And the dangerous thing about carbon monoxide, if you didn't already know this, it doesn't have a smell, you can't taste it, and it can potentially be deadly in high enough levels um in places that people live or work in. Anytime we see a heat exchanger that has holes in it, it's an automatic, "Hey, we've got to we're condemning at minimum the heat exchanger." And it at most it's a system replacement sort of scenario. So, way that you can help mitigate that is to really just be a part of of a maintenance program to make sure that, "Hey, we're checking those heat exchangers yearly." And also having carbon monoxide detectors in your house um is a really good way to to make sure that, "Hey, we don't have any any leaks of any kind." Your home. >> [singing]

actually wrote for someone that does heat and air work you should know many many cracks in heat exchanger units yield zero carbon monoxide in the residence if there is a carbon monoxide leak which is unlikely because metal expands when heated and the cracks often Clos that leakage goes up through the flu not back to the house you like 95% of your partners in crime we use this excuse to sell new heat and air systems by scaring the home owner I will say about this I do not take my customer safety lightly you say that well the carbon monoxide is not going to get in the house cracks can be in the heat exchanger and that's fine that's not necessarily true I'm going to go off of what manufacturers suggest and uh one of the manufacturers that we use is Linux we are a Linux dealer and on their install instructions they tell you to go off the ahr and I'm not trying to sell somebody something I want to make sure that person's safe and I think there's a lot of Engineers that are smarter than me that I'm going to go off of their recommendations not mine

always look at your flue pipe make sure all the connections look good and are sitting down on the draft diverter in a good place to where it will not allow carbon monoxide to come out and into your house that can be very dangerous it's one of the more deadly things than any other thing with the water heater after all these storms we've been having here in Oklahoma you probably want to climb in your attic and look at your flue pipe going out because winds can dislodge them and disconnect them so this is something you should really know about your water tank for the safety of you and your family

that little bugger right there uh are smoke detector and CO detector. Let's go ahead run a cycle on those. Make sure that they are functioning properly. They have a test button on them. Test them. Also, if they're battery powered, go ahead and change your batteries. If they [snorts] are direct inlet, like if it's wired in like that one is or if you have a plug in on the like a wall outlet down by your knees, make sure that they are capable of running. Press that test. Make sure the CO detector is working and make sure that that smoke detector is working because guess what? We're doing a lot of hosting, a lot of cooking, and we're having to use our heater to heat our home. So, we want to make sure that all of our safety systems are in working order prior to one, turning them on, and two, having people over into our house. [singing] [music]

your furnace on. Yes, absolutely. Whenever you kick your furnace on and you smell that smelly smell, you're like, "Well, at least it's working." Well, anyways, well, that's dust particles burning off that heat exchanger, those dust contaminants and particles just every day from just living uh uh will make its way into the system. And in the same way that they compile on the evapor, they can also compile on that heat exchanger or heat strip. You're going to smell it at a specific time of the year. And that time of the year is whenever you kick your what is

Whenever the storm goes through, the house is still standing. Uh the first thing that we should check as homeowners, be a pro homeowner and make sure that your flu pipe for both your water heater and your furnace is properly seated. You know, actually, come on, let's let's go take a look at it. I'm just going to show you what it looks like. That'll be a whole lot faster. And right up here, again, this is a 100-y old building, so give us some grace. We might not have the proper clearances here. This right here, that's your flu pipe. A lot of times, what we'll see is this is seated on properly. You've got some connection joints here. it is seated on properly. Now, after a storm, sometimes this will be blown up and either disconnected and off-seated right here or it may become unseated up in the attic, which is where I would recommend getting a professional involved because our attic here at the shop is way too tight. Uh, and uh, uh, if you were a homeowner having to crawl through our attic, I would highly recommend not doing it. Zero 10 stars. One of the things that you want to do is make sure that that flu pipe is seated right there on the top where it should be. If you're not comfortable doing so, call your local professional and they would be more than happy to come out and make sure that you're taken care of.

It's late September, and the last thing on your mind is turning on your heater because we finally made it out of the summer heat, and frankly, the cold winter is so far off. Jon Snow, stay away. But you need to do this before you turn on your heater for the season. Let's get into it. So what we see happen a lot of times is people wait till the first 40-degree evening or first 40-degree day to turn on their heater, and I know what you're thinking. It's September. It's still kind of warm outside. The weather is beautiful. We got football on the television. October isn't here yet. Spooky season isn't in full swing, and it's Oklahoma. I haven't turned on my heater yet. I've just been enjoying not having to pay for my utilities to keep my house comfortable. But you need to do this before you turn on your heater for the season, which is, one, we need to turn it on because you're gonna smell some things. It's gonna smell like kind of a burnt marshmallow a little bit. It's gonna, you know, have that dusty, crusty... Like, I kinda like the smell of it, honestly. It's, you know, it's one of those that's like smelling a skunk from, like, a ways off. Like, you smell, it's like, "Oh, what is that?" And it's like it makes you feel alive. You know? It's one of those things. So smelling a heater for the first time, a lot of times people panic and they're like, "Oh my gosh. Something's burning." It's just the dust. It's just the little bit of the debris that has settled on your heat exchanger or on your heat strips, depending on what you have heating your home, for the year. So, like, it's been running, you know, your air conditioner's been running. That doesn't mean your heater wasn't involved. It's in the airflow path, and so the dust and the debris has set on it. Whenever you turn your heater on for the first time, it's gonna burn that stuff off. Do not panic. It's fine. You planned for this. Happens every year. Don't hit the panic button. It's okay. You're gonna smell some... You know, light a candle. B- I'm sure Bath & Body Works has a buy three, get seven candles special going on. At least that's what Cass tells me they have going on at all times is, "We have a lot of candles." Love you, honey. So whenever you turn your heater on for the first time, do not be worried if you smell the kinda, like, burning sensation. But before you turn it on, there's a check right before that that I want you to do, which is if you have a gas heating system, so whether it's natural gas or it's propane, I want you to make sure that the carbon monoxide detectors have had their batteries changed or are plugged in properly. I want you to make sure that you run those through a test because though you're gonna smell the burning crusties and dusties, you're not gonna smell carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide is that silent killer. Nobody can smell it. It is the result of incomplete combustion inside of your heat exchanger on a propane or a natural gas furnace. And frankly, it is an avoidable thing that you should take responsibility of as a homeowner. Make sure you have carbon monoxide detectors, and make sure the batteries are changed, and make sure that it's wired in properly. Then go turn on your heater. But that's the first step. That's the one rule is turn it on before the first 40-degree day so you make sure you have heating whenever you need it most, and you're not set on a Saturday afternoon trying to watch football, and you're sitting there shivering. And you're not just cold because your favorite football team hasn't scored enough points, but you're also cold because your heater was never turned on properly. So don't be that guy. Just let your Saturday night disappointment be because your football team isn't scoring enough points, not because your house isn't comfortable. One of these two things is avoidable, and I'm not at fault because you decided to be an Oklahoma State fan. That's on you. Love you, Dad. I'm taking shots. You wanna make sure that your carbon monoxide detectors are plugged in, make sure that your heater has ran at least once before the cold sets in. Then what you wanna do is change your filter. One of the things that I always talk about during heating season especially is whenever we have, you know, guests coming over, fall time is a time of multiple get-togethers. We have just back-to-back to back holidays. It is a constant flow of people coming in, people going out, dogs playing outside, kids tracking in leaves, all the fun stuff that we get to do in the fall because the weather is not actively trying to oppress us. But with that comes we're bringing in more dust, dirt, and debris into the house, and whenever we do that, we are clogging up our filters at a faster than normal clip. So during the fall and the winter, I always recommend changing, if you have one-inch filters, changing those filters at least once a month because you are going to make sure that you're not breathing in burnt crusties and dusties more than you should. You're gonna make sure that your heater is capable of running all season long without having any interruptions at all. This is a preventative thing that you can do that costs you, like, 12 bucks. Just run to the local hardware store, gets you a filter. Change it out. If you have a four-inch filter or, like, a whole home filtration system, things like that, that's a whole different deal. Frankly, that should be taken care of on your preventative maintenance. If you're not on a preventative maintenance, you can get more information down in the description on how you can get a preventative maintenance and get this taken care of for you. But the next thing that you're gonna do is now that we've changed the filter and we've tested the heater for the first time, is I want you to walk around the house. And when you walk around the house, I want you to take note of all the beautiful air registers in your home. They are just gorgeous in their own right. Make sure that all of those are open, please. Don't close them off. And I know what you're thinking. You're like, "But Tucker, my office gets too hot, and I... It's just... Don't put hot air on me." I get it. It's warm. That's a ductwork issue that we could probably solve in the future. But if we are keeping hot air in a duct longer than it should be, what we are gonna do is we're gonna increase the box temperature of the furnace or the air handler. When we increase the temperature of the box for the furnace or the air handler, well, then we hit rollouts. We hit our limit switches. We are gonna cause safeties to start tripping, and the heater's gonna shut off because it is designed to not fail catastrophically, meaning we cause something bad to happen. So how you can prevent that from happening is go around your house and make sure all of the supply vents are open. All right, and now that we've done that, now that all the supply vents are open, I want you to walk around the house and look at all the beautiful return registers and make sure that there is nothing blocking the returns because you should have done this during the filter change. Like, if you have a one-inch filter, it's probably in that return box. But if it's not and it's just at the unit and your ref- returns are elsewhere in the house, make sure that, like, a picture frame or yesterday's DIY project didn't get, like, leaned up against the wall or, like, maybe a couch got scooted over in front of it or something. Make sure that that return is capable of sucking in as much air as it possibly can because that is the other piece of the safety rollout. Now, you're probably not gonna have an increased box temperature because it doesn't have enough air in it, but, like, you know, that's kinda besides the point. If it doesn't have enough air in it to begin with, you're just not gonna get comfortable. Your house isn't gonna get warm. So make sure that your returns are free and clear of any debris, of anything that's been left over from yesterday's DIY, and make sure that no rugs, as beautiful as they might be, got put over a return if your returns are in the floor. So whenever you look at your set point, right, on your heater... I know, again, Tucker, September, I don't wanna think about setting my heater on yet. But have a smart thermostat or a programmable thermostat where you set your band of what your tolerable temperature is because, as you know, September, October, and even sometimes November in Oklahoma can cause you to run both your AC and your heater in the same day. And a smart thermostat is going to allow you to set a band, an acceptable range of temperature. Don't push those any closer than, like, 5 or 6 degrees would be my... You know, you can probably push them as close as 4, but, like, that's gonna cause some unnecessary switching on the system. But set that band of, like, if you're gonna say, "Well, we want it to cool at 74, and we want the heater to come on at 68." Again, if you set your heater to 68, which apparently is the national average, that's like a terrarium to me. Me and Cass, we keep our house, like, at, like, 4. We're, we're, we're not setting the heaters very high. You know, just put a hoodie on. I can only take so many clothes off, but I can get comfy cozy. So nice and cool is where we set our heater. But make sure that you have a smart thermostat that's capable of running a band of temperature and an allowable range for you so that you're not constantly having to run back and forth or open your app and set, "Okay, we want the AC on," or, "We want the heater on." Make sure that you've got it set to where it is in the acceptable band so that you're not having to think about it. It's just done and taken care of for you. That's what home automations are great for. All right, we're gonna touch on a little bit of a safety thing on that first run that we've talked about. So the first run of the heater, we're going back a little bit, I know, but I wanna talk about a safety thing for our gas-heating friends, which in Oklahoma is a majority of our heaters. We have propane and natural gas. And whenever you first flip it on, don't just, like, flip it on and walk away. I want you to kinda pay attention to some things. It... You're gonna stand there for probably 30 to, like, 90 seconds while the gas fills the box up, and you're gonna hear the, you know, the igniter, like the tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. It's gonna, you know, it's actually fun to listen to if you can hear it. So it's like the bells in The Polar Express. Only the people who really know, know. You know? Only the people who can hear it can hear it. And so you're gonna stay in there, you're gonna wait for that the inducer motor kicks on, everything goes. It's, it's a beautiful mechanical system. Willis Carrier was a genius when he made this whole thing. But that delay in the heating cycle is normal because we need the box to fill with gas, not the box, but the heat exchanger to fill with gas so that we can then ignite it and then start the heating process. But what I'm saying is far as, like, the normal goes, the, the dusty, crusty, burnt kinda smell, that's fine. Whatever. But if you start to smell gas, meaning, like, kinda like a rotten egg smell, um, that's gonna be, like, propane and/or natural gas. They smell pretty similar. If you smell, like, a rotten egg, uh, turn it off immediately, probably shut the gas cock off, and call somebody quick because that means you have gas escaping where it probably shouldn't be. Because if you smell gas at all in your heating system, you need help. You need somebody there to take care of it pretty immediately. Again, also, like, if you smell, like, a burning plastic, like, or, like, rubber smell, that's another one. That's not gas. That's more indicative of, like, we have some electrical issues going on or maybe something got into the blower wheel and, like, during the air conditioning season, it wasn't burning. There was nothing there to burn. But now we have something in there that is trying to ignite and possibly melting and causing more damage. So that is the safety warning on that first check that I really wanted to give to our gas appliance friends because ultimately, that is, uh, kind of avoidable, but, like, you can know when to turn something on or off based on the smells. You know, there's a lot of things involved. It's a very sensory experience turning on your heater for the first time and, you know, frankly, it's something that every pro home owner should be capable of doing. So when you turn it on, make sure that you're taking half a second. Listen to it. If anything sounds irregular, turn it off. If you smell rotten eggs, make sure that you turn it off. Or if you smell a burning plastic or rubber, turn it off. That is not the normal dust/like, debris smell of whenever you first turn the heater on. So next we look into it is time to schedule your heater tune-up because it's September. October's on the horizon. Spooky season's about to be in full swing. You need to get your heater tuned up. And whenever I say your heater tuned up, I don't mean, like, have a professional come out there and just, like, pat it on the butt and be like, "Yep, it all looks good." I'm saying they need to come out, they need to inspect the heat exchanger. Make sure that you don't have any cracks in the heat exchanger because over time, those heat exchangers, because we're literally... It looks like a jet in there. I am sure we have footage of it somewhere. It's, like, just It's just actively just, I mean, propulsion is happening inside of that heat exchanger. And over time, as we heat metal, it expands and contracts and, you know, continues to expand and contract. And as it does that, it can, you know, either get rusted or it can cause cracks to start forming. And if cracks start to form, well, that means that we have a potential for carbon monoxide to leak into the space. So that is check number one that happens on a heater tune-up. The next one is making sure that your flue vent is properly seated both on the system and exiting the house. Because if the flue vent isn't exiting the house properly or it's not properly seated on the furnace, well, then we have a problem because the carbon monoxide that should be going out the flue is now exiting into your attic. There was a scary time, Will and Megan were out here in a rent house in, uh, uh, Blanchard, and thankfully it had, like, snowed, and so there was snow all over the roofs of the houses. And Will and I roll up to his house, and I notice there is no snow on Will's house. However, there's snow on all of his neighbors' houses. And I just have this, like, gut moment of like, "Oh, no. All right, we gotta..." Whatever we were doing, I don't even know what we were planning on doing the rest of the day. We were at work, but I was like, "We've gotta figure something out." And I go up in the attic and, uh, at some point I guess they had the roof changed in that, uh, rent house they were in, and, uh, the flue vent never got properly seated, so they were having flue gases expel into the attic causing flue gas to be in the attic, meaning carbon monoxide. Thankfully, no one was hurt. However, what it did do, because heat and cold, whenever they mix, we have condensation. The whole, like, sheeting of the roof was just ice. Um, so whenever it started to thaw, caused a lot of water damage. It was a big deal. Do not sleep on a flue vent not being properly seated or sleep on, like, I don't play with carbon monoxide. So, like, on the first frost days, if you notice somebody, like, if everybody else has frost on their roof line and somebody doesn't, that might be worth a good neighbor knock on the door being like, "Hey, you might need to get your heater checked," because that's indicative of some other issue. Um, or maybe they open the door and it's just a terrarium and the lizard people live there. You could find out. Knock on the door. Okay, anyways, this is check number two, making sure that the flue vent is taken care of. If it's an electric heater, we're gonna check the amperage of the heat strips and make sure that they are not over amping or under amping or that the sequencer hasn't been stuck on and that the heat strip actually shut-shuts off and cycles properly between heat cycles because those are liable as we heat and cool those, they're liable to not necessarily, like, fully melt, but melt the inner workings of the sequencer and cause it to have some issues as far as getting stuck on and then the heat constantly running even though the blower's not on. And then we have just a, a myriad of issues. And those are things that, like, I don't recommend a homeowner doing just because it does require specialized equipment and a specialized eye and training to do. Those are things that we check. Also, we will change the filters for you during that maintenance. So guys, I know that you're thinking, like, "It's September, Tucker. I don't wanna think about my heater." But you need to do these things before you turn your heater on, before that first cold day of the year arrives and you're caught literally in the cold expecting people coming over to eat your football beans and watch a game, and it's not gonna be warm enough in your house, and you're gonna be sad. Because you could have done the blocking and tackling well. You could have made sure that your system was capable of heating your house and keeping you comfortable whenever you needed it most. So if you're curious what it costs to get a maintenance or if you're curious what it costs to have any heater repairs done, you can either click the link below or scan the QR code, and in less than two minutes you can see what it would cost. 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storms blow across Oklahoma and uh the uh the OKC metro. Um if a storm blows by you and you're questionable if your flu pipe is still there, give us a call. We'd be happy to help. They say

There was a scary time. Will and Megan were here in a rent house in, uh, Blanchard, and thankfully it had, like, snowed, and so there was snow all over the roofs of the houses. And Will and I roll up to his house, and I notice there is no snow on Will's house. However, there's snow on all of his neighbors' houses. And I go up in the attic, and at some point I guess they had the roof changed in that, uh, rent house they were in, and, uh, the flue vent never got properly seated, so they were having flue gases expel into the attic, causing flue gas to be in the attic, meaning carbon monoxide. Thankfully, no one was hurt. However, what it did do, because heat and cold, whenever they mix, we have condensation. The whole, like, sheeting of the roof was just ice. So whenever it started to thaw, caused a lot of water damage. It was a big deal. Do not sleep on a flue vent not being properly seated, or sleep on... Like, I don't play with carbon monoxide. So, like, on the first frost days, if you notice somebody, like, if everybody else has frost on their roofline and somebody doesn't, that might be worth a good neighbor knock on the door, being like, "Hey, you might need to get your heater checked," because that's indicative of some other issues

all right so upon putting this blower back together we had previously already pulled out one piece of folded metal thought we were all clear went to test the blower quickly and I was a little suspicious so I kept my hand right next to the pigtail to unplug it and sure enough about a second of run time I hear a big thud Tink sound and another piece of metal had fallen out from the heat exchanger so now I really need to dive in deep and figure out why somebody had been wedging these pieces of metal in the heat exchanger if we were to all Ely find out that this furnace is not under warranty I would recommend getting an estimator out here because we have a lot going on and I'm concerned about the overall safety of this especially if somebody's just shoved metal in there to to combat issues the longer we work on this particular call I'm starting to wonder what all kind of Corners might have been cut and what kind of a quick quick fixes that weren't the best fixes might have been done

this is a heat exchanger this is what we use to actually exchange heat that we get from the gas with our blower these typically can last the life of the unit but when they do need to be repaired it's usually due to rusting out or causing other things that could be harmful to your health typical cost for replacing these is anywhere from two thousand dollars or up and that's what I tell people about this part