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Top 10 Heating Problems EASY Fixes for No HEAT - Boiler _ Furnace Troubleshooting OIL HEAT
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00:00:00.000 hey guys so today's video is to help you 00:00:02.11900:00:02.129 if you've got a problem with your 00:00:04.24900:00:04.259 heating system and you have no heat 00:00:05.59900:00:05.609 right now or you just want to know more 00:00:07.57900:00:07.589 about it I'm gonna show you the most 00:00:09.41000:00:09.420 common things that go wrong with your 00:00:11.66000:00:11.670 heating system that prevent it working 00:00:13.33900:00:13.349 so before you call a heating contractor 00:00:15.91900:00:15.929 or a plumber watch this video from 00:00:17.81000:00:17.820 beginning to end and I put this video in 00:00:21.65000:00:21.660 a special order 00:00:22.55000:00:22.560 I started it the easiest thing that you 00:00:24.20000:00:24.210 can check all the way up to the most 00:00:25.93900:00:25.949 difficult but all of them are things you 00:00:27.98000:00:27.990 can do yourself you can watch this video 00:00:30.05000:00:30.060 and I'll take you through step by step 00:00:31.37000:00:31.380 and you'll probably be surprised to find 00:00:33.65000:00:33.660 out that the things I'm going to show 00:00:35.20900:00:35.219 you are the most common reasons that 00:00:37.13000:00:37.140 people call with no heat calls and I 00:00:39.97900:00:39.989 hope I can help you fix your heating 00:00:41.38900:00:41.399 system get you back up and running and 00:00:43.45900:00:43.469 save you some money 00:00:46.74000:00:46.750 so as I told you with the intro to this 00:00:48.90000:00:48.910 video we're gonna start with the first 00:00:50.55000:00:50.560 easy tip now that tip is your thermostat 00:00:53.82000:00:53.830 now don't panic I'm not saying that your 00:00:55.77000:00:55.780 thermostats broken it's actually much 00:00:57.84000:00:57.850 easier than that take a look at what's 00:01:00.24000:01:00.250 blinking in the corner of this 00:01:01.38000:01:01.390 thermostat that little blinking thing 00:01:03.54000:01:03.550 says replace battery now that seems like 00:01:06.09000:01:06.100 such a basic thing but if you looked 00:01:07.83000:01:07.840 quickly at this thermostat at the 00:01:09.24000:01:09.250 beginning it looked like it was working 00:01:10.85900:01:10.869 just fine and that's the problem with 00:01:12.84000:01:12.850 most thermostats 00:01:14.10000:01:14.110 they look like they're operating 00:01:15.90000:01:15.910 correctly but the issue is the batteries 00:01:18.69000:01:18.700 aren't strong enough to switch the heat 00:01:20.67000:01:20.680 on any longer so if you have a no heat 00:01:22.98000:01:22.990 situation this is what you want to do 00:01:24.87000:01:24.880 you want to change these batteries out 00:01:26.96900:01:26.979 it's just an easy thing to do and this 00:01:29.28000:01:29.290 is a process of elimination and this is 00:01:31.35000:01:31.360 the number one reason people's heating 00:01:34.08000:01:34.090 systems or even air conditioning systems 00:01:35.94000:01:35.950 will fail 00:01:36.66000:01:36.670 these batteries just died and they don't 00:01:38.96900:01:38.979 look like they're dead so swap them out 00:01:41.43000:01:41.440 so as I'm changing these out you might 00:01:43.71000:01:43.720 think I don't have batteries in the 00:01:45.21000:01:45.220 house and maybe this is the middle of 00:01:46.77000:01:46.780 the night when you're watching this 00:01:47.76000:01:47.770 video so don't forget your TV remote 00:01:50.60900:01:50.619 control is the best source for batteries 00:01:52.67900:01:52.689 if you're in a pinch you almost always 00:01:54.60000:01:54.610 will have a remote that either has 00:01:56.10000:01:56.110 double-a or triple-a so if you're 00:01:58.17000:01:58.180 watching this you're in a bad situation 00:01:59.81000:01:59.820 rob them out of your remote control put 00:02:02.39900:02:02.409 them in your thermostat and see if that 00:02:04.08000:02:04.090 solves your problem now we're just gonna 00:02:06.21000:02:06.220 close this back up and make sure the 00:02:08.19000:02:08.200 thermostat power is back on if it fixes 00:02:10.65000:02:10.660 you heat you're done but if not let's go 00:02:12.69000:02:12.700 to the second most common item 00:02:19.83000:02:19.840 next item we want to check is this this 00:02:22.50900:02:22.519 is your emergency burner off switch 00:02:24.67000:02:24.680 every house in the US is gonna have a 00:02:26.77000:02:26.780 switch like this it's usually at the top 00:02:28.78000:02:28.790 of your cellar stairs it might be 00:02:30.85000:02:30.860 somewhere near your kitchen but it's 00:02:32.17000:02:32.180 always gonna have this red plate now I'm 00:02:34.39000:02:34.400 just showing you a few examples but they 00:02:35.92000:02:35.930 all look pretty much the same you want 00:02:38.11000:02:38.120 to find this switch and make sure it's 00:02:39.81900:02:39.829 in the on position now don't discount 00:02:42.00900:02:42.019 this because you're going to say I would 00:02:43.53900:02:43.549 never switch it off but you've got to 00:02:45.25000:02:45.260 remember this happens all the time 00:02:47.68000:02:47.690 and it's usually not you it might be 00:02:49.69000:02:49.700 your kids it might be a relative 00:02:51.36900:02:51.379 somebody visiting or you might have even 00:02:53.28900:02:53.299 just hit it by mistake so double check 00:02:56.05000:02:56.060 that this switch is absolutely in the on 00:02:58.00000:02:58.010 position 00:03:03.63000:03:03.640 next thing we want to check is your 00:03:05.83000:03:05.840 electrical circuit breaker panel now 00:03:07.66000:03:07.670 don't get nervous I'm only going to show 00:03:09.19000:03:09.200 you things you're supposed to do now in 00:03:11.14000:03:11.150 every house your heating system is 00:03:13.03000:03:13.040 almost always going to have its own 00:03:14.95000:03:14.960 circuit breaker so take a look at the 00:03:17.35000:03:17.360 listing of your circuit breakers and you 00:03:19.00000:03:19.010 can see right there I have one that says 00:03:21.31000:03:21.320 burner it might say gas heating system 00:03:23.92000:03:23.930 it might say heating system but you want 00:03:26.14000:03:26.150 to find the number of the circuit 00:03:27.49000:03:27.500 breaker and then you want to go up to 00:03:28.93000:03:28.940 the panel and take a look if that 00:03:31.00000:03:31.010 circuit is off or tripped like this is 00:03:34.12000:03:34.130 here you want to go ahead and try to at 00:03:36.58000:03:36.590 least flip it back to the on position 00:03:38.37000:03:38.380 now normally breakers don't trip but 00:03:41.47000:03:41.480 they do sometimes and it's not always a 00:03:43.75000:03:43.760 serious problem so you want to at least 00:03:45.85000:03:45.860 try to flip it back on and if it stays 00:03:48.19000:03:48.200 on you may have solved your problem 00:03:50.23000:03:50.240 right there if it trips again 00:03:52.00000:03:52.010 immediately you're gonna have to call a 00:03:53.89000:03:53.900 heating person or an electrician but 00:03:55.84000:03:55.850 give this a try because this also 00:03:57.94000:03:57.950 happens there's not always a known 00:03:59.74000:03:59.750 reason but you want to make sure that 00:04:01.60000:04:01.610 that circuit is on 00:04:06.98000:04:06.990 here's another one of the most common 00:04:09.42000:04:09.430 things that happens in your basement or 00:04:11.73000:04:11.740 outside if you use oil you're gonna have 00:04:14.31000:04:14.320 a tank like this this is your oil tank 00:04:16.59000:04:16.600 and this is where you keep you fuel that 00:04:18.72000:04:18.730 runs your heating system now you never 00:04:20.58000:04:20.590 believe it but just like a car you can 00:04:23.04000:04:23.050 run out of gas and you're not gonna go 00:04:25.23000:04:25.240 anywhere and even though you're gonna 00:04:26.79000:04:26.800 say well my oil company delivers my oil 00:04:29.31000:04:29.320 and they take care of it mistakes happen 00:04:31.68000:04:31.690 so at the top of the tank you're gonna 00:04:33.96000:04:33.970 see a gauge that looks like this even if 00:04:36.39000:04:36.400 you don't know what it is all you need 00:04:38.16000:04:38.170 to do is read those marks there's an e 00:04:40.50000:04:40.510 at the bottom and enough at the top for 00:04:42.42000:04:42.430 full that little red plunger in the 00:04:44.55000:04:44.560 middle is where your fuel is at all 00:04:46.53000:04:46.540 you're looking for is to make sure that 00:04:48.63000:04:48.640 it's somewhere between a quarter and 00:04:50.85000:04:50.860 full if that's the case and you've got 00:04:53.28000:04:53.290 fuel but tons of calls come in because 00:04:55.80000:04:55.810 you've got an empty tank and it somehow 00:04:58.05000:04:58.060 happened and you had no idea so check 00:05:00.51000:05:00.520 that fuel gauge 00:05:05.39000:05:05.400 so when you're looking at your heating 00:05:07.49000:05:07.500 system take a look from the bottom to 00:05:09.68000:05:09.690 the top and when we get to the top above 00:05:11.93000:05:11.940 every heating system in the United 00:05:13.43000:05:13.440 States by code you're gonna have a 00:05:14.93000:05:14.940 little box like this now this is looking 00:05:17.81000:05:17.820 correct to me because it's got this 00:05:19.64000:05:19.650 little black plunger in the middle but 00:05:21.77000:05:21.780 I'm gonna show you what this is for this 00:05:23.99000:05:24.000 is a safety and if there's a fire or a 00:05:26.74900:05:26.759 fault that little black piece of plastic 00:05:29.27000:05:29.280 with the metal can pop out so when you 00:05:31.79000:05:31.800 look up at yours if it looks like that 00:05:33.80000:05:33.810 with a little plug is not in it you've 00:05:35.93000:05:35.940 got a problem 00:05:36.77000:05:36.780 and what you want to do is start looking 00:05:38.48000:05:38.490 around your floor because that little 00:05:40.85000:05:40.860 piece may have bumped out by mistake 00:05:43.12900:05:43.139 or it might have fallen out sometimes if 00:05:45.52900:05:45.539 you've got kids upstairs pounding the 00:05:47.45000:05:47.460 floor hard enough or something else 00:05:49.04000:05:49.050 happens it is possible that this safety 00:05:51.80000:05:51.810 switch can pop out incorrectly and it'll 00:05:54.37900:05:54.389 be on the floor somewhere and you'll see 00:05:56.15000:05:56.160 it looking just like this now this is a 00:05:58.73000:05:58.740 safety device and it's designed for fire 00:06:01.10000:06:01.110 so obviously you don't have a fire going 00:06:03.17000:06:03.180 so if you see that on the floor you want 00:06:05.48000:06:05.490 to try to replace that just like I'm 00:06:07.21900:06:07.229 doing here and I'm gonna put it back in 00:06:09.05000:06:09.060 the socket if it pops back out that's 00:06:12.23000:06:12.240 not probably going to happen but if it 00:06:14.00000:06:14.010 does you want to call a heating 00:06:15.65000:06:15.660 professional or an electrician but this 00:06:17.60000:06:17.610 does happen sometimes and it's the cause 00:06:19.61000:06:19.620 of many calls so take a look to make 00:06:22.04000:06:22.050 sure that this little plug is in place 00:06:26.51900:06:26.529 so now here we're looking at our boiler 00:06:28.94900:06:28.959 now in the lower center right in the 00:06:31.16900:06:31.179 middle is the thing called the oil 00:06:32.75900:06:32.769 burner and on your oil burner and I'll 00:06:35.24900:06:35.259 give you a close-up here there's a thing 00:06:37.16900:06:37.179 called a burner control and this burner 00:06:39.47900:06:39.489 control on the upper right has a red 00:06:41.78900:06:41.799 button on it some of the red buttons 00:06:43.64900:06:43.659 light up some of them are just a little 00:06:45.14900:06:45.159 red button that pops up and here's some 00:06:47.42900:06:47.439 close-ups of some very common burner 00:06:49.22900:06:49.239 controls now that red button is a safety 00:06:52.25900:06:52.269 button and what happens is when your oil 00:06:54.56900:06:54.579 burner detects a fault that button is 00:06:57.56900:06:57.579 gonna pop up and it essentially is like 00:06:59.48900:06:59.499 a little mini circuit breaker and you 00:07:01.28900:07:01.299 can go ahead and press that once maybe 00:07:03.65900:07:03.669 twice but if it keeps tripping out on 00:07:06.20900:07:06.219 safety as they call it that means that 00:07:08.42900:07:08.439 the burner is detecting a fault you 00:07:10.28900:07:10.299 don't want to just keep pushing it and 00:07:12.14900:07:12.159 pushing it over and over because you 00:07:13.70900:07:13.719 could absolutely have a major problem so 00:07:16.01900:07:16.029 if you do it once and that fixes it or 00:07:18.23900:07:18.249 twice that might be okay and it'll get 00:07:20.60900:07:20.619 you up and running but you want to call 00:07:22.34900:07:22.359 to get your heating system checked or 00:07:23.81900:07:23.829 serviced as soon as possible after 00:07:25.46900:07:25.479 because you definitely want to have it 00:07:27.29900:07:27.309 looked at but hitting this reset button 00:07:29.42900:07:29.439 can get you up and going again at least 00:07:31.46900:07:31.479 for a short time so the next thing you 00:07:36.56900:07:36.579 want to check is right on your boiler 00:07:38.69900:07:38.709 there's a little gauge and you're gonna 00:07:40.31900:07:40.329 have two dials on it typically that will 00:07:42.44900:07:42.459 show a temperature and as you can see in 00:07:44.33900:07:44.349 the upper part of mine it's 170 and then 00:07:47.03900:07:47.049 the lower that's actually pressure and I 00:07:49.16900:07:49.179 have about 18 psi all you're really 00:07:52.13900:07:52.149 looking forward that gauge is to make 00:07:54.14900:07:54.159 sure that there is a reading if both of 00:07:56.42900:07:56.439 those gauges are at zero that means you 00:07:58.37900:07:58.389 heat really hasn't run at all or it's 00:08:00.02900:08:00.039 just ice-cold so you're going to need to 00:08:02.24900:08:02.259 move on to diagnose something else 00:08:06.02000:08:06.030 so as we continue our troubleshooting if 00:08:08.69000:08:08.700 your system had pressure power and it 00:08:10.88000:08:10.890 seems like it's on and running but you 00:08:12.86000:08:12.870 just don't have heat in your house this 00:08:14.87000:08:14.880 is the part you want to check now what 00:08:16.97000:08:16.980 I'm doing here is I'm feeling around in 00:08:18.62000:08:18.630 these pipes these pipes are your 00:08:20.60000:08:20.610 delivery system for the hot water that 00:08:22.49000:08:22.500 goes up to the radiators of the 00:08:23.93000:08:23.940 baseboards in your house to deliver the 00:08:25.73000:08:25.740 heat to the rooms so if you don't have 00:08:27.50000:08:27.510 heat in those rooms this is an important 00:08:29.21000:08:29.220 part so these pipes are really hot you 00:08:31.52000:08:31.530 don't want to burn yourself but you 00:08:32.87000:08:32.880 should be able to do what I'm doing just 00:08:34.52000:08:34.530 kind of touching them really quickly 00:08:36.02000:08:36.030 just to feel how much heat I have so the 00:08:38.69000:08:38.700 thing you're looking for is here is 00:08:40.34000:08:40.350 where does the heat stop now it was hot 00:08:42.74000:08:42.750 on the bottom then it goes into the 00:08:44.39000:08:44.400 circulator pump now if I feel heat after 00:08:46.79000:08:46.800 this spot here I know that the pumps are 00:08:49.55000:08:49.560 working and they're moving hot water 00:08:51.11000:08:51.120 upward because I can feel it 00:08:52.73000:08:52.740 but there's another spot that the hot 00:08:54.56000:08:54.570 water movement can stop so let's take a 00:08:56.69000:08:56.700 look at that so if your boiler is hot 00:09:01.79000:09:01.800 but your rooms are cold you want to 00:09:03.65000:09:03.660 start looking up in your pipes and now 00:09:05.09000:09:05.100 they may not be as high up as this on 00:09:06.89000:09:06.900 yours but you're going to look like 00:09:08.36000:09:08.370 these and these are called zone control 00:09:10.61000:09:10.620 valves these are the switches that 00:09:12.38000:09:12.390 control whether or not the hot water is 00:09:14.24000:09:14.250 going to flow to your rooms now if you 00:09:15.92000:09:15.930 have these on your system all you want 00:09:17.72000:09:17.730 to do is check both sides of it and you 00:09:19.88000:09:19.890 want to make sure the hot water is hot 00:09:21.95000:09:21.960 on both sides if it's only hot on one 00:09:24.08000:09:24.090 side these switches are probably not 00:09:26.45000:09:26.460 working properly now I'm going to show 00:09:28.43000:09:28.440 you some pictures of other zone control 00:09:30.20000:09:30.210 valves that are really common to find 00:09:31.97000:09:31.980 you have different styles but they 00:09:33.92000:09:33.930 essentially all do the same thing 00:09:35.57000:09:35.580 they're electrically operated valves and 00:09:37.79000:09:37.800 they're going to allow the flow of hot 00:09:39.47000:09:39.480 water now I did a separate video because 00:09:42.35000:09:42.360 these are so common to fail that you can 00:09:44.75000:09:44.760 just change the upper part of these 00:09:46.46000:09:46.470 valves are called the zone head you can 00:09:48.74000:09:48.750 look at my channel and I have a video on 00:09:50.27000:09:50.280 doing that it does not require any 00:09:51.80000:09:51.810 plumbing and a lot of times that can be 00:09:54.08000:09:54.090 your fix 00:09:57.66000:09:57.670 our final and last thing that we want to 00:10:00.36000:10:00.370 check is this green box now this one 00:10:02.58000:10:02.590 says take go on the side there are other 00:10:04.20000:10:04.210 brands but all you're looking for is 00:10:06.27000:10:06.280 here to look at any electronics on you 00:10:08.34000:10:08.350 boiler and make sure that there's at 00:10:09.96000:10:09.970 least a green light or an LCD or some 00:10:12.63000:10:12.640 indication of electricity if you have 00:10:14.73000:10:14.740 any boxes like this and there's no 00:10:16.65000:10:16.660 lights on at all and it looks like there 00:10:18.30000:10:18.310 should be that could be another failure 00:10:20.10000:10:20.110 that you may need some help to get 00:10:21.66000:10:21.670 resolved I hope this video was helpful 00:10:23.79000:10:23.800 if it was please give me a thumbs up 00:10:26.16000:10:26.170 leave me a comment below and subscribe 00:10:28.08000:10:28.090 to my channel for more videos coming up 00:10:30.18000:10:30.190 thanks for watching 00:10:39.06000:10:39.070 you
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