Chief Longwind Of The North
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Friday evening, a pipe broke just after the pressure tank, making my house dry. Fortunately, we always keep several gallons of water stored just for such an emergency. It cost me about $50 in supplies and tools to repair my plumbing last Saturday. But my water is great again.
Got home from work yesterday to falling temperatures in my house. My wife went to Wal mart and purchased a ceramic heat because the furnace quit working. It's an Olson Ultra Max high efficeincy gas furnace that has given me very little trouble over the last 20 years. There are two blowers on the furnace, one to take outside air and feed it into the combustion chamber, and then exhaust it outside. The other blower moves air through a heat exchanger and through the house. The first blower is the one that went bad. Price - should have been around $300 or so. But, the manufacturer that made the blower went our of business 10 years ago, and there are no compatible replacement blowers offered by Olson. The Furnace guy said my only option is to replace the furnace for $2400!
I'm going to get the part number of that blower and see if I can find one on Ebay, or anywhere else. I'll post it here, when I get it, just in case anyone has a spare, or a discarded furnace that might have that blower.
Wish me luck. $2400 is a very hard pill to swallow on my budget.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
Got home from work yesterday to falling temperatures in my house. My wife went to Wal mart and purchased a ceramic heat because the furnace quit working. It's an Olson Ultra Max high efficeincy gas furnace that has given me very little trouble over the last 20 years. There are two blowers on the furnace, one to take outside air and feed it into the combustion chamber, and then exhaust it outside. The other blower moves air through a heat exchanger and through the house. The first blower is the one that went bad. Price - should have been around $300 or so. But, the manufacturer that made the blower went our of business 10 years ago, and there are no compatible replacement blowers offered by Olson. The Furnace guy said my only option is to replace the furnace for $2400!
I'm going to get the part number of that blower and see if I can find one on Ebay, or anywhere else. I'll post it here, when I get it, just in case anyone has a spare, or a discarded furnace that might have that blower.
Wish me luck. $2400 is a very hard pill to swallow on my budget.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North