Getting our heating system diagnosed

My parents owned a big ranch out in the rural area of the country.

We would spend lots of holidays there tending to the creatures, especially during winter.

Last winter, we went to the ranch just in time to make sure all the creatures were okay, then the workers had to bring in the cows from the fields before the snow came in. My parents worked to make sure all of us had everything to keep us going for the long winter ahead, my dad went to switch on the furnace system when all of us got to the farmhouse, it wasn’t snowing yet, but the entire space was cold. The furnace was not responding, which had our mum panicking, but a faulty electric furnace would mean spending winter without any heating in the house. That was not an option, so she had our dad call the oil furnace service supplier in town. The town was miles away, we knew the furnace experts would come. We had an furnace service system with them, which covered the numerous miles they would need to travel! Hours later, we saw the furnace supplier van pull up to the farm, and a service worker got out. The same lady had first installed the electric furnace in the ranch house a few years back, she greeted our folks and got to work diagnosing the problem with the electric furnace. The oil furnace professional noted it had a cracked heat exchanger, which had happened due to overheating the previous winter. We had a winter storm which forced us to keep cranking up the heat in the house. That might have been the cause of the overheating. The only solution for the cracked heat exchanger was to replace it since it was not repairable.

 

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