Gas heat.....

[potsmokingnome]

Ok I rent a top half of a house, and its heated by gas heat. after winter was done with in like april I turned off the heat alltogether, and now i wanna start it up again...I have to go downstairs and ask if I can turn on the piliot light. I shouldn't really have to do anything else should I? should I have kept it running just a little bit all year around? I've just never had gas heat before....

potsmokingnome Reviewed by potsmokingnome on 10-18-2006. Gas heat..... Ok I rent a top half of a house, and its heated by gas heat. after winter was done with in like april I turned off the heat alltogether, and now i wanna start it up again...I have to go downstairs and ask if I can turn on the piliot light. I shouldn't really have to do anything else should I? should I have kept it running just a little bit all year around? I've just never had gas heat before.... Rating: 5

[Nochowderforyou]

Yeah, just go down and ask them to light the pilot again. It's easy to do, you just turn the furnace back on, take a long BBQ lighter, light it and there you go, heat.

And yeah, you should just keep it on year round. When summer rolls around, I usually just turned the heat right down so the pilot would stay lit, but it woudn't fire up because of temps outside.

[potsmokingnome]

Thanks Nochowderforyou

[Nochowderforyou]

:thumbsup:

[potsmokingnome]

fuck I'm an idiot or somethin, went down to check the furnace and fuck if I could make sense of the instructions.........oh well, I'll guess I'll just get my landlord to check it out..

[potsmokingnome]

yeah went back down and figured out, I was just to lazy to read all the instructions the first time lol

[benagain]

Ahh gas heat. that shit takes me back a few winters to a place i was renting where the pilot light kept going out. I'd have to get up 2 or 3 times a night to re-light it. Told the landlord several several times but he didn't do shit about it.

[stinkyattic]

If it's forced-air, you should change the filter, especially since it has been off all summer. If it's just a little furnace, vacuum out any dust that is kicking around otherwise you'll be sneezing!