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Kaleva

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6. Do you have a boiler and not a furnace?

Reply to ProudToBeBlueInRhody (Original post)

Fri Nov 2, 2012, 01:14 AM

Nov 2012

Is the system maintaining the temp you set at the thermostat? You didn't mention if it's cold in your house.

If you have a boiler, it may already be up to high limit when you turn up the thermostat and the clicking you hear is the relay in the aquastat closing which powers the circulating pump but not the burner assembly as the temp is already at high limit.

If the temp in the house is what you have the thermostat set at (within a degree or two), there may be nothing at all wrong with your heating system.

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Thermostat or furnace? [View all] ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2012 OP

If the furnace responds somehow, then it's the furnace. If it doesn't, it could still be. jeff47 Nov 2012 #1

Hard to say, but the clicking at the furnace suggests Warpy Nov 2012 #2

+1...I had a similar issue once and that was the very problem. A pro fixed it in no time. nt MADem Nov 2012 #3

Thanks, 'm pretty sure that's part of it ProudToBeBlueInRhody Nov 2012 #4

Been a long time since I've had an oil burner, but Thor_MN Nov 2012 #5

Do you have a boiler and not a furnace? Kaleva Nov 2012 #6

Sounds like the igniter is going bad. sinkingfeeling Nov 2012 #7