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There are a lot of concerning sounds that can come from your furnace, but perhaps none as worrisome as booming. If you have a gas furnace, a booming sound can mean big trouble for your home and family. In fact, hearing a booming sound just one time means that you need to schedule furnace repair in Vincennes, IN as soon as possible.
You can keep reading to learn why a booming sound happens and what makes it dangerous. If you have questions about any sound coming from your furnace or want to schedule a service appointment, give our team a call.
Why Is My Furnace Booming?
If you have a gas furnace, a very precise process has to happen when the unit turns on for a heating cycle. Gas releases into the airtight chamber of the heat exchanger where it meets an open flame. If the flame ignites too late or too much gas is being released into the chamber, the result is an explosion.
Why Is a Booming Sound Concerning?
While this explosion may be small, it is happening within the confines of a relatively small airtight chamber, resulting in a boom. Your furnace may continue to work just fine to heat your home without any other hiccups if you hear this sound. You may even be tempted to ignore the booming sound if it only happens once or twice and then you don’t hear it again.
However, each time this explosion happens, it is straining the confines of the heat exchanger. One time may not be enough to result in damage. However, if the booming sound happens again and again, your heat exchanger may begin to crack under the pressure.
Even a small line of damage to your heat exchanger can allow gas to leak out into your home. This can put your family at great risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. It also poses fire risks since the gas is no longer confined to the airtight lines of the chamber.
What to Do if You Hear Booming
If your furnace makes a booming sound, it’s a good idea to turn it off completely until our team can check it out. This will prevent the problem from continuing on through each heating cycle, which can be dozens over the course of a day. When our team arrives at your home for a service appointment, we will check both the gas lines and the pilot light to make adjustments so heating cycles happen more precisely.
Taking these proactive steps will help prevent your heat exchanger from cracks. One big reason you want to avoid this is that the heat exchanger cannot usually be repaired or replaced once a crack develops. Often, the entire furnace needs to be replaced.
This can be a costly expenditure that you don’t plan on making right now – especially if your furnace isn’t very old. A service appointment is far cheaper, and also helps to extend the lifespan of your furnace so that it can last longer without any issues.
Contact Benner Heating & Air for all your heating and cooling needs. We can help you with furnace repair in Vincennes, IN. It’s Better with Benner.