System Fault - Blower Lockout

On Friday our furnace started malfunctioning. It would not come on and then a saw an error message on the thermostat screen stating... system fault - blower lockout. I also got an automatic email from the system stating... "This email was sent automatically because your "366Crescent" system issued the following URGENT message: 15-BLOWER LOCKOUT (Code: 15)". I looked up the error message online and saw that the blower lockout meant it would automatically turn off when it detected a problem with the blower as a safety issue.

So our contacted our furnace service company Reimer Heating & Cooling and they sent a service person over right away to check out our system. I called about 4:30 and they scheduled the service call for that evening. The service rep, Ivica Majdandzic, arrived at around 7 pm. He has serviced our furnace last year.

It turns out we need a new blower for the furnace which by the way is only three years old. The parts are covered by the warranty but we will need to pay for the labor which will be several hundred dollars. It will take a couple of days at least to get the parts in and then schedule the repair. Ivica said that the parts will need to be ordered on Monday so we at least need to get through the weekend and probably a little into next week with the furnace problem. Right now it does not want to stay on and I need to keep resetting it which includes going down to the basement and actually turning the furnace off and on manually to get it running again. Fortunately the weather is cooperating and we are to have relatively warm weather over the next few days and no deep cold.