There is a terrible storm here, and we have been without power for ten hours. It is freezing and the house is starting to lose heat. We have the furnace plugged into the generator, but the heating zone switches are electric, so they won’t turn on and feed the heat to the rest of the house. Grrrr.
Does anyone know how to manually override heating zones?
Weather report says around 5 AM. I assume they won’t send anyone out to do things before hen. It would be dangerous to have someone on a cherry picker with 30-50 mph winds.
If I would have known earlier I could have asked the maintenance guys here but they have all gone for the day.
As far as opening. I know yours are electric. But mine have a lever on them that controls the valve. IF your’s are in anyway similar to mine, you can check for those anywhere on the radiator and pull it open.
They would be pretty obvious. There would be something hiding it if it were there. Mine has a panel on the end that opens up for the lever to be pulled. If you can’t find it right away it’s probably not there and not worth being frozen for.
Just keep warm. Grab some blankets. Have some hot chocolate and watch some of this
Probably shouldn’t use a coffee can however as some of them are made from paper. Or at least check before you do. At long as it’s metal and lays on something that won’t get burned it’s good.
Heat outage. My furnace is a water and air heater combo. The water heater part is working, But the air heater section is not. So I’ve got power, but I don’t have air heat.