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Anthony N

Anthony N

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I hope everyone has had a wonderful new years, and a marry holiday.

As for me, while I did have those, as you all know I've been absent for quite some time.

And this is because two days after Christmas, I was working in my shop and needed a tool from our house's furnace room just to find condensate all over the floor.

We had come to find out that our furnace had not been burning cleanly and exhausting about 5000 ppm out the flue and around 200ppm just around the furnace itself.

As I told another member here, I needed to regroup knowing that what myself, and my family have been exposed to, and the amount of time being exposed.

I have already recycled the old furnace and took pictures of its tear down, and I will upload them with due time.

Also contributing to my absence is my phone has broke and haven't seen a new one for almost a week and also our network was compromised and we are still slowly recovering as it caused a crap load of DoS problems.

My activity here will be far and few as I continue to get back on my feet and sort out my life. I will try and stop by when I can, but I will most definitely not be around as much as I used to with the volume I used to generate.
 
OMG! Thank goodness you needed a tool!

Get things together, Anthony, in your own good time. You know that you can always find us here.
 
Thank you, both of you, yes, it really hits you hard when you take something for granted that it'll just run, when it's slowly waiting to silently kill you.
 
Re: Furnace Tear Down

Here are the pictures of our grim reaper furnace.
Stats:
Brand: Bryant
BTU Size: 88000
Age: 20 years
Manufactured: 1992 | In Service: 1993 | Retired: 2012



General overview before tear down.



Main duct work blower and dismounted furnace control box.



Exhaust blower, gas flow regulator, and that piece of PCB is the in-line thermal combustion safety shutoff fuse.



Exhaust blower.



Condensate holding bulb, and furnace control box.



Furnace control box.



Primary Heat Exchanger.



Secondary Heat Exchanger.



I started with the combustion box intake.



Everything is out of the combustion box.



Exhaust fan is removed.



The removed exhaust fan. In the lower left hand corner you will see the control box.



Removed control box and fuel value.



Furnace doors, combustion box front and top, gas spreader fins.



A look at the primary heat exchanger.



Removed transfer plate and revealed this.



More at-part-level picture.



Primary heat exchanger removed. It is face down due to the carbon flakes that were falling out.



Secondary heat exchanger.



Main blower removed.



Both exchangers removed.



Just an empty shell.



Main blower removed from shell, and on the scale for recycling.



Processed main blower.



Another look at the blower, the fins were extremely sharp.



Processed exhaust fan, also known as the power ventilator.


Another picture of the fan, showing all the soot and carbon buildup.

These pictures were taken the way they were to contain the carbon flakes as much as humanly possible. Sadly, I could not take some pictures due to I had to remove and contain the items right away. This furnace was retired due to releasing around 5294PPM of CO2 out the flue which was beyond federal limits and the readings of CO2 around the furnace was 238PPM again exceeding federal limits.

As I said in an earlier post it is a shame we just have the attitude of it'll work, it has to. But due to our human imperfections we have introduced appliances that can kill us without us knowing into our dwellings.

All of you are like family to me. Have your appliances serviced and cleaned! It might just be the difference between life and death, and between your paycheck and high energy bills.
 
Coming from the other side of the big blue pond I must admit I was very ignorant of what a furnace room was!

A few years back I used to be a furnaceman at a steelworks and I always think of a furnace as a melting pot that is charged to around 1600c to melt steel! I guess in this case though, from looking at the photo's, it is the equivalent (in some kind of sorts) to a central heating system. I'm taking a guess that it's some kind of hot air heating system to heat the house, am I right in thinking this?
 
Yes, on this side of the pond, we refer to the "hot air heating system" as a furnace.
 
Anthony,
Glad you have a brand new furnace but what concerns me have you and you family been checked out by a physician for being exposed to all the toxics
from your old furnace?
A clean bill of health if far more important than anything I can think of.

Take care and come back when things settle down.
Dennis
 

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