Got home from work tonight..... SWMBO is down visiting her sister in Phoenix.... I let the dog out, kick up the thermostat from the daytime "low" setting.... Hear the draft inducer kick on, move around the house for a bit.... Pause for a bit thinking, "man, it's taking a long time for the blower to kick on...." right about when the draft inducer kick off. What the frack?
Head out to the garage, and smell a hint of NG..... Double what the frack?
??
Open up the garage door, air everything out for about five minutes. Shut the breaker for the furnace off and back on to reset everything.... Bump the thermostat back up and head back out to the garage to look at the furnace during the startup.... Draft inducer, check.... Hear the igniter relay kick on, and then the gas valve.... Hrm.... No glow from the igniter.....
FRACK!
And of course, it's on the coldest night so far this season.
I'd already taken tomorrow off because I was sick. Good thing, cause I'll be calling the local furnace guy first thing in the morning.... I'm guessing since I heard all the relays, etc, that it's just the igniter. I hope.
Now I've got a big fire going in the fireplace (*really* wishing we'd gotten the insert we were looking at last season!) and a small little electric forced air heater that will be going in the bedroom tonight.
Frack.