My furnace won't ignite

[Chigworthy]

It's about 20years old. The vent fan and blower operate, but it will not produce heat. To top it off, I cannot locate the Model on the interwebs, including the manufacturer website. Wtf do I do now? If I could find parts I might be able to fix this bitch. I definitely don't want to pay one of these ripoff artists to come fix it. My buddy just caught the furnace repairman at his place marking up a 40 dollar part to 300.

[mdr55]

You don't have a service contract with anyone?

I have an older furnace (pre-WWII I think) that runs on oil and the oil company has repairmen they send over when ever I have trouble.

[KnoxHarrington]

Just bring a big barrel into the house, fill it up with oily rags, and light the son of a bitch up. Problem solved.

And even better, you can just start throwing all your trash in there to keep the fire going, so that solves two problems at once.

[Pittsburgh]

Is pilot light staying lit? If not most times the thermocouple has failed. Easy cheap fix if you are at all handy.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Is pilot light staying lit? If not most times the thermocouple has failed. Easy cheap fix if you are at all handy.

Yeah, I had the same issue, that's what it sounds like.

When it happened to me, I called PSEG, they came out and repaired it, cost about 200 bucks, and they put it on my bill.

They gave me the option for a service plan, which is about 8 bucks a month.

[disneyspy]

damn kids won't stay off my lawn!

[spoon]

ignite sounds like something you wouldn't want with a furnace!

[disneyspy]

ignite sounds like something you wouldn't want with a furnace!

ignite sounds like something a ghetto rat would say like

that ho is jus ignite

[OGC]

Is it an oil burner ? Natural Gas ?

Are you renting ?

How about calling the landlord?

[Chigworthy]

I do shit my own way. After ruling out a vent motor failure, I pulled out the igniter, which was cracked. New one from Amazon: 18 bucks and a chilly 3-5 days.