Maintaining Your Oil Furnace

If you have an oil furnace you will have to take more care of it than if you had a gas furnace. By taking good care of your oil furnace you can make sure it lasts much longer. The life expectancy of your furnace will be prolonged if you clean it each and every year. Although it is not difficult to do it can be quite messy.The first thing to do is to disconnect the power supply. You will then need to remove the burner assembly which is where the electrodes are located. Every model is different and you should follow instructions in your manual. When you have done this, you can remove the nozzle and then replace it with a similar one that has the same spray pattern.By wiping down the entire assembly carefully, you can make sure that all oil and soot is removed. You will need to replace any insulators of the electrodes if you find any erosion or cracks, when you inspect them. Make sure that you position and gap them before inspecting. In order to make sure that this is done prope
rly and to prevent the risk of fires or explosions, you will need to buy a special tool.You will also have to wipe down the oil pump, air passages, transformer and its electrodes and the cage on the combustion blower. When you have finished wiping all these down, you can put the furnace back together and then restart it. You should expect it to restart very quickly and silentlyCleaning your oil furnace will help it to last longer but only if it is done correctly. You will find more detailed instructions on how to clean your individual furnace in the instruction manual that should have come with your furnace. If you are at all worried that you will not be able to do this right, you can hire a professional to come and service and clean your furnace annually.Some people spend a lot of money heating their homes in the winter. Electricity and gas prices are very high and show no signs of coming down any time soon. Clever people are switching to heating oil as a fuel though. After
the changeover they have to make sure that the storage tanks are always full of cheap heating oil to make sure they don't run dry in the cold weather.

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