How to Drain a Mobile Home Furnace
A furnace in a mobile home is subject to different maintenance procedures than those in a house or apartment complex, mainly because a mobile home's furnace usually recycles air that is blown through the mobile home. Since the outside environment can be exposed from draining a furnace, you need to take special care when you bleed the tank. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Turn off the heater from your mobile home's circuit breaker. Mobile-home tanks are electrically connected to your circuit breaker, and it is a safety precaution to shut off the system before you drain the furnace.
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Find the drain hose. The drain hose should be at the bottom of the heater.
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Place a draining plate or bowl immediately below this hose. Use an old or throwaway plate, bowl or pan, and keep it for all future furnace draining since the pan is going to become lined with harmful chemicals.
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Turn the knob of the hose as if you are turning on a faucet. Watch the liquid carefully so the plate or bowl doesn't overfill.
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Turn the knob off as soon as the pan begins to fill up. Put the pan off to the side for the moment in a safe place. Make sure none of the liquid spills out from the pan.
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Remove the drain trap. If any liquid is still stuck to the trap, make sure it either drips into the pan or into a bleach-safe sink.
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Put the drain trap into a bleach-safe sink and pour bleach over the trap. This kills all organic products that may have accumulated or grown in the trap.
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Connect the drain trap back in the furnace.
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Store the liquid in a metal container that holds the total volume. You will need to bring this liquid to your local or municipal waste management plant so the plant can properly dispose of the chemicals.
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Turn the heater back on from your circuit breaker.
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References
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