How To Light Pilot Light Wall Furnace

If your pilot light goes out all you need to.

How to light pilot light wall furnace. Gas wall heaters whether vented or unvented can supply enough heat to warm a small or medium sized room and they can operate with propane or natural gas. Unlike older pilot lights which have to be lighted by hand automatic pilot lights now commonly found in most home furnaces are regulated by a thermostat and only ignite when needed. A modern gas furnace usually has an electronic spark generator to ignite the gas when the thermostat calls for heat. Watch our brief tutorial to get your furnace pilot lit.

A number of things can make an old furnace pilot light go out including a strong draft a faulty thermocouple or a loss of gas. How to troubleshoot gas wall heaters. When your furnace fails to ignite the first place to look is the pilot light. An older gas furnace has a standing pilot that stays on all the time or at least it s supposed to.

In order to replace the pilot light on your wall furnace you will actually need to replace a piece known as the thermocouple which is the device that makes sure the pilot light in your furnace is lit follow the steps below to make this repair. Good life property management website. The most common reason for this problem is because the pilot light is not on. Step 1 shut off the gas.

Before continuing with the repair be sure to shut off all gas to the project area. Mariah shows you how to light the pilot on a wall furnace. In this episode of repair and replace vance shows how to relight the pilot light in a standing pilot furnace.