Electric Heaters

My girlfriend and I moved into a 20 year old house she decided to purchase here in the beginning of 2006. A really nice house in Shenandoah neighborhood out neat the South Side of Baton Rouge. However as with all homes its had a few problems and Wayne's been having to solve them because Michelle's your typical non-mechanical woman. The most frustrating thing was fixing the gas heater with bugging electric parts with a problem that had nothing to do with the gas or the electric!

Gas Electric Heater Motor Shorts

The electric motor stopped pumping air through the house the first time we turned it on this year and presented a problem I had to solve. Unfortunately after looking at all the fuses and wiring I couldn't find a thing wrong other than the end result. So we decided to call a professional out here. But Getting the repair done under warranty hasn't produced because Michelle had no idea who to get ahold of or how to do it so after a few weeks and freezing my butt off I decided to give it another go. I cut the heater on and it worked perfectly!?

But later on that day it started to rain and Michelle called me up to let me know the heater had cut off again. Damn! I came home and she shows me that water is leaking out of the vent pipe from a joint into the electric parts. This leads me to conclude that moisture is our problem and so we have a culprit. Now for a solution...

So after checking out the vent pipe I make it to the roof and realize the vent pipe hood has snapped off two of the four welds that hold it on so water is getting in the hood and dripping out that joint into our electric heater parts thats causing our heater to stop sucking air. So I run down to Lowes and get a new hood and voila. Everything is fixed. Amazing how $9 worth of parts can cause such a problem. Just to show you what you're paying for when you rent a home. You don't have to solve these electric & gas heater / appliance problems yourself.