Your Furnace Can Last 30 Years If You Do This Every Fall

🔧 Everything I learned fixing HVAC for 25 years, in one plain-English book. 📘 THE HVAC SURVIVAL GUIDE - get it here: https://raydutton.com The heat came on by itself this week, and you didn't give it another thought, because it works. That's how a furnace gets finished at fifteen or twenty years, while the same furnace down the street is still running at thirty. The difference isn't a service plan or a fancier brand. It's one afternoon a year, and not the forty-nine-dollar coupon visit. In this video I walk you through five jobs with a flashlight, a vacuum and a bucket: reading the floor of the cabinet, cleaning the water trap, checking the exhaust pipe, the burners, and the blower, where a ten-dollar part gets billed as a six-hundred-dollar motor. For each job I tell you what's yours to do, what's the tech's job, and what each one costs when it gets skipped. Twenty-five winters I did that fall visit, and the floor of the cabinet was always the first thing I looked at. CHAPTERS 0:00 The heat came on by itself 0:32 Job 1: the floor of the cabinet 1:38 What the honest tune-up pays for 2:04 Take a photo, then clean the floor 3:04 Job 2: the water and the trap 4:15 How to clean the trap yourself 5:13 Two jobs in 5:45 Job 3: the exhaust pipe 6:39 The one failure you can't smell 7:23 White plastic pipes: the 30-second check 7:41 Job 4: the burners 8:46 The boom in the morning 9:52 Job 5: the blower and the $10 part 11:06 The run capacitor 11:56 How to catch it 12:55 The whole afternoon, side by side How old is your furnace, and what did you find when you took the lower door off? Tell me in the comments. I read every one. I'm Ray Dutton. Keep your cool, and I'll see you in the next one. #furnace #furnacemaintenance #hvac #heating #furnacetuneup #homemaintenance #hvactips #fallmaintenance