Natural Gas Issues

Hobo,NC · Dec 3, 2019

When I started using heat this fall the furnace blower would come on blow cold air for a minuet then shut off about a minuet then it would come on and blow warm air.

I called my HVAC man to look at it he said the gas valve was bad pressures were good... I told him it was still under warranty : ) he said I will have to order the part I would have to pay the labor I said goferit..

I cook about 3/4 times a week for quite awhile the burners light up but go right back out. I said self you need to look into this but never got around to it... I fudge with them and get them to light up : ) It only takes a minuet!

My two nice's love to bake in my oven I always thought they don't want to heat up their house no problem they share well Yum Yum.... One of them just happen to stop by while I just started to cook I turned the burner on it went out GRRRRRR... She said wait a minuet and re-try it, it will light up " A light went off in my head" That's the same thing the furnace is doing...

I called my NG man he came over and fixed it in a minuet the vent valve on top of the regulator was stuck.

PJH · Dec 3, 2019

When we lived in town and had natural gas, our gas meter and regulator was right under the roof drip [no guttering - too poor]. In freezing weather I had to turn a bucket upside down over the regulator because ice would form on the regulator vent screen and freeze it up. Same symptoms that you had. The first time it happened, I called the number for our local small town furnace guy. His wife answered the phone, and without even saying hello or asking what I wanted, she said to go out and pour a bucket of hot water over the gas regulator. I guess she was getting lots of calls for the same problem that morning.

kencombs · Dec 4, 2019

Had a similar issue. Pressure OK when first lit, then would drop quickly. I had a 30+foot steel line from the main to my house, installed in the late 60's. Had a hole somewhere and the line had taken on water. Gas could pass through the water, but slowly.

believe it or not, the gas company installed a new line and meter from a couple of blocks away, AT NO CHARGE.

the original service came from a high pressure main located on the other side of the street my house. special deal as this was not a normal residential service line when my Dad built here. Hand shake agreement with the property owner and the gas company set a regulator and meter over there. Dad had the service line laid, pushed under the road. Since that time a housing development was done North of me. They had new services installed for that and the gas company extended it to me.

What was amazing to me was NO Charge!

Hobo,NC · Dec 4, 2019

A few years ago they took me off the main line they ran a residential line on the other side of the road and connected every residential to that line. They ran everything new up to the house as they did everyone that was on it.

They have been working on the main since last winter they will dig a hole work on it all night fill it up and dig it up again the next night that's been going on for quite some time :shock: There was a gas tank in the ground in that area I was told petroleum had got to the line.

My first thoughts were something had got into my line from all that work. The gas folks have always came out fast and took care of an issue at no charge. I did have to pay for the material when they ran NG to my shop it cost me $700 I ran the trench and filled it in they laid the line and hooked it up. That was the best $700 I spent it was worth it to get off the bottle...

Geo-TH,In · Dec 5, 2019

I've heard of NG regulators freezing up in winter. Gas company comes out and removes
ice from around Gas meter.
Not sure how water gets in NG, one time the Gas man had to defrost the supply line.

This is one reason why I'm a big fan of going total electric. I converted my first
rental to total electric in 1985. Yet to have first issue with heat, no service call,
no replacement of heaters, blowers, filters.
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