The Furnace Isn’t Broken, Just Push the Red Button

This morning I woke up around 5 am and after getting out of bed, I thought, it is cold. I checked the thermostat and it read 57 degrees. All of a sudden my biggest fear kicked in, a major issue heading into Christmas.

I checked the oil tank, the bobble thingy showed 1/3 of a tank so we had oil. I wake Lynn up, and said, I hope our furnace isn't broken because it's not working. She goes, let me go look at at it. After two seconds it's back on. Apparently there is a red reset button. She more or less went back to sleep, but now I'm paranoid of it going off again.

I've actually just run hot water to see if the furnace would start and guess what, it did. After the temperature in the house got to where the thermostat is set of course the furnace shut off and I worried again. Guess what I did, I raised the thermostat a degree just to make sure the furnace really did work.

I've come to the conclusion that without Lynn I would be so broke. Without her I would have sat in the cold for a few hours then called a furnace repair company.

Has this ever happened to you?