Delayed Furnace Start Up?

[Mike Lamb]

I was doing a foreclosure purchase. The gas had been turned on the previous day. Gas stove, dryer and water heater fired.

2007 Goodman furnace did not fire when I turned up the thermostat. I left the thermostat on and continued with the inspection. About 45 minutes later the furnace fired. What could explain the delay?

[charlieb]

Air being bled from the line?

[kurt]

What Charlie said. Fairly common in the service reactivation jobs.

[SNations]

Air being bled from the line?

Maybe, but a newer Goodman furnace would only try to fire three times, then it would shut down. I don't think it would keep trying to fire for 45 minutes.

[kurt]

My own (fairly new) Carrier will try 3 times, then shut down, but it's not permanent. About 8 minutes later, it will go through another 3 attempts. If nothing, another 8 minutes, etc.,

While it's trying to ignite, it's slowly bleeding the air out of the line. They eventually fire up.

[Phillip]

Around my area when the gas is turn on the gas company is suppose to turn everything on and make sure it lights.

if your areas does that it may be something else, but it does sound like air in the line.

[Mike Lamb]

This furnace never tried to fire. There was no induction fan, no igniter glow. Nothing. I wrote it off that it wasn't working and then it just came on later in the inspection because I left the thermostat at 80F,

[hausdok]

Maybe you accidentally pushed delayed start and it waited the length of delayed start that it's been programmed for. I've done that once or twice.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[kurt]

No fan, no glow plug, no firing attempt....... sounds like a case of goblins.

The furnace needs to be exorcised.