Jet-sounding neighbour furnace
We had to move in the park due to long-term reservations and now have neighbour with good looking DP. But his furnace is facing us directly and not only it gives jet-like sound, but comes very often...
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I, too, suspect an obstruction in the furnace burner tube, possibly mud dauber nests, maybe spider webs, or even just a pile of dead stink bugs. This is also likely the cause of the furnace coming on for just a minute before shutting off, only to come on again for just a minute a brief time later.
You would be doing him a favor to tell him you think there is a problem. If that burner tube is obstructed, it is also quite likely making carbon monoxide in prodigious amounts, which could kill him (or you). At the very least, it will be wasting a lot of propane by a burn cycle like that.
Last spring, the first time I fired up my TT's water heater, it sounded like a jet engine. It had always had a faint roar, but this was impressively loud. I went outside to investigate, and that's when I saw the big black carbon plume going up the side of the trailer. I shut the water heater off immediately and quickly determined that I had a burner tube full of dead stink bugs. Took all of a minute to clear them out, whence the water heater returned to normal operation. Took some serious scrubbing to clean the soot off the side of the trailer.
You would be doing him a favor to tell him you think there is a problem. If that burner tube is obstructed, it is also quite likely making carbon monoxide in prodigious amounts, which could kill him (or you). At the very least, it will be wasting a lot of propane by a burn cycle like that.
Last spring, the first time I fired up my TT's water heater, it sounded like a jet engine. It had always had a faint roar, but this was impressively loud. I went outside to investigate, and that's when I saw the big black carbon plume going up the side of the trailer. I shut the water heater off immediately and quickly determined that I had a burner tube full of dead stink bugs. Took all of a minute to clear them out, whence the water heater returned to normal operation. Took some serious scrubbing to clean the soot off the side of the trailer.
