I thought that I could make it all winter season without having my boiler service, however I was wrong.
Initially, I forgot to have my boiler inspected before the cooler weather and week after week continued to slip by until I decided to just skip it.
Although my boiler is older, I constantly have it inspected by an Heating & A/C contractor at least twice per year. I assumed that if I skipped the servicing this one time that I would be fine, however that wasn’t the case. When my boiler wouldn’t turn on, I was forced to call the Heating & A/C contractor to come repair it. I told him that the boiler wasn’t chopping on, and he told me that it could be one of several things. It was possibly a tripped breaker, a bad blower fan, bad coils, for a failed sequencer. I didn’t know what half of those things were, so I told him to look at everything and repair whatever needed fixed. The Heating & A/C professional was at my home for 45 minutes fixing my boiler and thankfully, he had my boiler running before he left. According to him, it was a faulty blower fan and he was able to repair it that afternoon. The blower fan was “misaligned,” which meant that my boiler was providing heat however it wasn’t making it’s way into my house. This was wonderful news to me because I was glad that I wouldn’t have to pay for modern parts. I’m cheerful that the Heating & A/C contractor was able to come repair my boiler for me, because I wouldn’t have been able to do it on my own.