5 Things You Didn't Know Were Destroying Your Furnace

🔧 Everything I learned fixing HVAC for 25 years, in one plain-English book. 📘 THE HVAC SURVIVAL GUIDE - get it here: https://raydutton.com/v29 Go down to your furnace right now and look at what is sitting within arm's reach of it. The gas can. The paint. The pool chemicals. The boxes you slid over there because it was the one corner nobody sees. It looks tidy. It looks like the smart place to keep all of it. Except that corner is the one place in the house those things do not belong, and what they are quietly ruining is the single most expensive box you own. Twenty-five years I spent kneeling in front of these units, for the same outfits that later showed up to sell the repair. The 5 things people park next to the furnace to be tidy, and what each one is doing to it: The gas can (the vapor sinks straight to the burner) The clothes dryer crammed against it (lint, damp air, and a rusting cabinet) Using the top of the furnace as a shelf (buried panels nobody inspects) A room packed too tight for it to breathe (the free flame test that tells you) The bleach and pool chemicals that crack the heat exchanger, the one wall between the exhaust and your air Plus the repair-or-replace rule, and why you should never let anyone condemn your furnace on a flashlight and a hunch. Chapters: 0:00 The corner nobody sees 1:02 #1 The gas can (the vapor sinks toward the flame) 2:53 #2 The clothes dryer (lint, damp air, rust) 4:53 Why tidy people do this 5:23 #3 Using the furnace as a shelf 7:06 #4 A room too stuffed to breathe (the flame test) 9:04 #5 The chemicals that crack the heat exchanger 11:53 Repair or replace: the age x cost rule 12:25 Your three-foot circle (the free fix) 13:27 Why nobody ever told you Tell me what state you're in and what's sitting next to your furnace right now. I read every one, and I have a feeling the gas can is going to win. Subscribe, I take one of these apart every week. #Furnace #HVAC #FurnaceSafety #HomeMaintenance #HeatExchanger #CarbonMonoxide #HomeSafety #SaveMoney