Dirt_Dad
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Reminds me of the first and only new house we bought. Move-in was April. By heating season, we woke up to a cold house on the lower level (dual zone). Got in touch with the installer, he came out and got it going. Few days later, happens again. Call the installer. He can't come immediately but talks me through taking off the cover, pulling a hose and sucking on it. Sure enough, starts right up.We woke up to a cold house this morning. Furnace didn't come on.
Go through this dance for weeks. He comes over a few times, always telling me it's fixed. Days later I'm sucking off the furnace again. Getting no satisfaction from my installer, I contact the manufacturer. Now they are send out some top guy from the factory and they want my installer to be there when they arrive. My installer actually shows up a day early and replaces some part that had been cracked and he tried to glue it together. He said "to make sure they don't try to blame that part for the problem." Factory guy came out, found some small deviation somewhere and had a part replaced. Never any more problems.
That was also the furnace that taught me not to be so casual about small gauge wires powering little motors. They are not always DC. I was fortunate not to find out the hard way. That one could have gone very poorly and I'd have only myself to blame. Never forgot that lesson.