Heating & Furnace

One of the hardest install locations we've had. The indoor unit sat in the attic with almost no clearance around it. Once the old evaporator was out you could see oil across the whole drain pan, the sign of a refrigerant leak. Nine hours of work to get the new equipment in and connected. Everything is running normally.

The tenant said the heater did nothing when switched on. In the attic we found the furnace's exhaust flue had been sealed off when the house was built, seven or eight years earlier. Every time the furnace ran, the combustion gases emptied into the attic, and the moisture had rotted the surrounding wood. Testing it for a few minutes was enough to feel sick. The attic was sealed from the living space, which is the only reason those gases hadn't reached the rooms. We shut off the gas and had the owner call a roofing company.

The furnace wouldn't respond at all. It had overheated and the control board had locked out. The cause was a filter that hadn't been changed in two years.