Thankfully, my gas furnace only needs a day of burn off before the smell finally goes away
I have a series of house repair plans every Autumn as the weather starts to drop and transition into winter. First of all, I enjoy to use plastic film to insulate my leaky windows from cold drafts. It’s cheap, looks enjoy thick plastic wrap, and it is straight-forward to install and disaffix. Some people might scoff if they haven’t tried window film, however it entirely makes a huge difference in regions as cold as mine. I also enjoy to get a cord or 2 of wood chopped ahead of the first snowfall. Luckily, I have ample room for chopped wood in my barn where I keep my horses, tools, and building materials. I have a wood stove in my living room that is an amazing source of radiant heat in the serious Winter weather here. But, despite how great my wood stove is, I still supplement it with my electric gas furnace. As numerous people know, an electric gas furnace can have a funky smell when it’s first used again after being shut down for many or 7 months. It’s pressing to let the gas furnace run for a day or 2 just to burn off the dust and microbial growth that settled on the heat exchanger while it was turned off. Thankfully, my gas furnace only needs a day of burn off before the smell finally goes away. My parents have an older gas furnace and theirs takes 2 to 3 times as long to burn off the funky smells from being shut off for so long. It’s a discouraging reality to deal with if you rely on indoor heat daily through the cold season, however at least in my case, it’s only a temporary inconvenience. Compared to all of the wood splitting and weatherproofing I do around the house, putting the gas furnace through a burn off cycle is entirely the easiest thing of all.
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