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The time-and money-saving furnace care and repair guide.
Giving you useful tips, simplified strategies, and genuine expertise, Roger Vizi offers you all the right information to maintain, diagnose, and repair virtually any residential forced hot air heating system.
Easy to understand and full of examples illustrating everyday problems, Vizi's well-illustrated guide reads like an owner's manual to furnaces - one that makes repair and maintenance virtually hassle-free. And if you're looking for the insider secrets to choosing a heating system, you simply couldn't find a more practical guide than Forced Hot Air Furnaces.
- Covers gas, electric, and oil forced-air systems, plus heat pumps.
- Reviews humidifiers and air cleaners.
- Gives you insight into controls, circuits, operation, diagnosis, repair and selection.
- Provides 100s of step-by-step illustrations.
- Solves the most common problems quickly.
- Complete troubleshooting and repairing guide to hot air furnaces.
- Complete operation, maintenance, and repair.
- Includes flowcharts and highlighted tips and solutions to common furnace problems.
From the Introduction
As a heating professional, you will be called on to service many types of home heating systems. This book will cover the most common types of home heating systems in use today: natural and propane gas, oil, electric, and heat pumps. These systems come in many styles and are manufactured by several companies, but the basic operation and repair are the same.
While I have geared this book for the person who is either in the heating profession now or would like to become a heating professional, I also have made every attempt to make this material as easy to understand as possible for the average homeowner. While the average homeowner may never attempt to replace the heat exchanger in his or her own unit, as an example, he or she will have the knowledge to decide when this type of repair is needed.
Wherever I felt that more information on a subject was needed beyond the discussion included herein, I have included diagrams and drawings to better illustrate the point.
As a heating system professional, you must have a complete understanding of the different types of add-ons that are available for home heating systems as well. I have included sections on installation and maintenance of the two most common types of humidifiers on the market, when you should install one, which one is right for the application, and how to properly maintain these units. I also explain the benefit to some homeowners of installing an electronic air cleaner.
Each section of this book will cover the basic controls of the heating system and the operation of the system and will end with a discussion of troubleshooting and repair of the system.
It is important for the heating professional to follow a systematic approach to diagnosing problems when they occur. By understanding the different components of the heating system and how they work together, you can isolate the problem to a particular circuit and eliminate the circuits that do not have a bearing on the problem.
You will learn, for example, that if a client calls you and states that the burners will not light but the blower runs all the time that these two conditions have no bearing on each other. Both these problems are controlled by different circuits, and the problems are not related. However, by knowing the proper troubleshooting techniques, you should begin to diagnose the problem in your mind so that you have an idea of what to look for when you arrive at the client's home.
Chapter 2 of this book will go into more detail on the subject of listening and observing. These are two of the most important traits that a good heating professional can have, since your client is your best source of information on the problem.
The working world of the heating professional is a rewarding and challenging one. You will encounter many different situations that you may be called on to handle. While this book does not attempt to over all the situations that you may be called on to handle, it will explain the techniques used to troubleshoot and repair the most common problems. By applying these same techniques to your particular challenge, you should be able to come up with a solution quickly and efficiently. This knowledge and confidence will be apparent to your clients, and they will call on you again because you have shown them that you are truly a professional at your trade.
Contents
Acknowledgments. Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: Listening and Observing. Chapter 3: Components of a Gas Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 4: Electric Circuits. Chapter 5: Operation of a Gas Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 6: Tuning Up a Gas Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 7: Troubleshooting a Gas Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 8: Introduction to Humidifiers. Chapter 9: Installation and Maintenance of Humidifiers. Chapter 10: Is an Electronic Air Cleaner Right for You? Chapter 11: Installation and Maintenance of Electronic Air Cleaners. Chapter 12: Introduction to Oil Forced Air Heating Systems. Chapter 13: Electric Circuits for Oil Forced Air Heating Systems. Chapter 14: Controls for an Oil Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 15: Protecting Oil Tanks in the Winter. Chapter 16: Operation of an Oil Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 17: Tuning Up an Oil Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 18: Troubleshooting an Oil Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 18: Troubleshooting an Oil Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 19: Is Electric Forced Air Heat Right for You? Chapter 20: Controls for an Electric Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 21: Circuits for an Electric Forced Air Heating System. Chapter 22: Operation and Maintenance of Electric Forced Air Heating Systems. Chapter 23: Troubleshooting Electric Forced Air Heating Systems. Chapter 24: Is a Heat Pump Right for You? Chapter 25: How Does a Heat Pump Work? Chapter 26: Introduction to Heat Pumps. Chapter 27: Operation and Maintenance of Heat Pumps. Chapter 28: Troubleshooting Heat Pumps. Chapter 29: Conclusion. Appendices. Index. |
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