Carbon Monoxide alarms kept going off. The gas company could not find out why. One Carpenter said, "I feel like I am going to die", so drove himself to the VA in Duluth, two and a half hours away. THe gas company fixed leaks in the pipes, replaced a regulator, replaced the tank. More alarms, more visits by the gas company, until that company quit, as the complaints kept coming.
The new gas company's installer had been a General Contractor, and saw immediately that the stack was too short. As it was within ten feet of the peak, it needed to be two feet higher. I fixed it, as the heating system installer felt he had installed it according to code. And indeed he had, as in the wilderness, there is no code. That changed in 2010. That installer is no longer in business.
Changing the stack improved the flame, but it still was not burning blue. There was incomplete combustion, so carbon built up. We kept cleaning the burner chamber out.
The new gas company's installer had been a General Contractor, and saw immediately that the stack was too short. As it was within ten feet of the peak, it needed to be two feet higher. I fixed it, as the heating system installer felt he had installed it according to code. And indeed he had, as in the wilderness, there is no code. That changed in 2010. That installer is no longer in business.
Changing the stack improved the flame, but it still was not burning blue. There was incomplete combustion, so carbon built up. We kept cleaning the burner chamber out.
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