Last night, just as I was about to go to bed, I realized that my dining room was unusually cold.
- There are two air vents within my dining room, so I listened quietly to hear the heat pour through them.
I waited and waited, but nothing ever happened. I stood in front of both air vents and tried to feel the heat coming out, just in case I wasn’t hearing it. When I still couldn’t feel the heat, I went into my residing room and found the thermostat. I raised the temperature by two degrees and waited for the furnace to kick on. Again, I waited and waited but nothing happened. When I returned to the thermostat, I observed that the thermostat said my house felt like it was 67 even though I’d set it to 69 degrees. This was the moment when I realized that my furnace wasn’t toiling. I didn’t want to call the emergency line with the local Heating and Air Conditioning corporation because it would cost me almost double… However, I didn’t want to freeze in the middle of the night either. I decided to try and solve the problem myself before calling the Heating and Air Conditioning corporation. The first thing I did was check the air filter. My old air filter didn’t look terrible, although I upgraded it anyway, but next, I went to check if any of the breakers were tripped, but sure enough, something had tripped the breaker and caused my furnace to stop toiling. Thankfully, I was able to flip it back and my furnace began to heat my loft again.