I have been renting in a home for 11 years.The furnace has never been serviced.Well lately, on ever hour.I keep hearing a loud boom, sometimes it shakes the whole first floor.Please anyone out their can tell me, what that is> Should my family worry about this house we live in? Also we all smell smoke coming out of the vents.Also the chimmey has never been checked? Please only serious inquires answer.After all, my husband and children live here, plus my pets!
2007-02-18 16:55:10 · 10 answers · asked by Marna S 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
There could be a cracked heat exchanger.Shut it down now!!!Find the gas shut off at the furnace and turn it till it stops. Call for service tonight.Get the ball rolling.Pay for the diagnostic fee and submit the invoice to the landlord tomorrow.
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2007-02-18 17:07:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure where you are, but where I live, if you want repairs made on the house, you have to put the request in writing to the landlord. If you make every attempt to ask him the right way and he doesn't clean the furnace, you do have a right to have it cleaned and take the amount it costs you off of your rent. Just provide him the receipt for the cleaning and an explanation with your rent payment.
If you have been there 11 years, hopefully he is not a bad guy and will have the decency to call a repair man in to look at it. If he's a dink, then you will have to research the tenancy laws where you live and find out what the protocol is.
2007-02-18 17:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to guess that this is an oil fired burner not gas.The smoke is coming from the incomplete combustion of the oil and the bang is an oil burners equivalent of a backfire.
You need to shutdown the unit now and call the landlord and the oil service company. Then find a nice warm place to spend the night and send the billl to your landlord.
Good luck
2007-02-18 17:42:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shut this furnace down immediately. The gentleman is right, sounds most definitely like a cracked heat exchanger, or other leak. If at all possible stay elsewhere tonight. This must be repaired immediately...tvtop_toptv
2007-02-18 17:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by Marsh 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I coulnt sleep there with all that happening go stay somewhere else call landlord and get serviced asap........sounds like a gas leak to me...as a matter of fact i would call landlord tonight and tell him
2007-02-18 17:06:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a gas leak
the fuel is leaking and lucky for you burning up
otherwise it would fill the house and bye bye
get someone in tommorow am to fix it or else
2007-02-18 16:59:53 · answer #6 · answered by knox_mountain_guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call you local heating/electric company they usually have someone 24 hours for problems. they may be able to answer you,or guide you what to do,but its better to be safe than sorry stay with someone else till you get it checked
2007-02-18 17:03:45 · answer #7 · answered by raindovewmn41 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would not stay in the house until you get everything checked
2007-02-18 16:59:24 · answer #8 · answered by alliewv30 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call ur landlord and tell him
2007-02-18 22:51:41 · answer #9 · answered by Larry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call fire dept. they'll check it for you
2007-02-18 17:03:01 · answer #10 · answered by nani 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋