Where is the pilot light on my furnace
How To Light A Furnace Pilot Light (DIY! Save $$ and Time)
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hi everybody thanks for watching you're
in the utility room of a small house we
converted into an apartment building and
it looks like the furnace pilot light
has gone out so I'm gonna show you in a
generic way what you need to do to light
a pilot light in a gas-fired furnace now
I've already taught them taken off one
inspection panel these things usually
just hang so it might be a little
different based on your model but see
these two darker gray plates they
usually just lift up they're hanging
they might be held on with a screw or
two but I'm gonna put these to the side
and you'll know you're looking at the
pilot light assembly when you see some
sort of a control that says like off on
in pilot and the ignition types which
follow the gas line from that and that
will take you to where your pilot should
be now in this particular case it has
another galvanized plate that will slide
off I actually put it in there upside
down but for demonstration purposes you
see that l-shaped deflector that's going
to deflect the gas flame onto the
thermocouple right there which is a
safety mechanism to shut off the system
so won't light this and we should be
back in business I'm gonna have my
partner here hold that while I go get a
match now one thing you might want to
use for these things are a wooden match
and some sort of long stick we're gonna
use a skewer from barbecue and tape the
match on there so we want to stick our
fingers wing in there you're either in
dangerous way so I'll get that and over
the cord again in a second okay here's
what I meant this is your typical
barbecue skewer I'm gonna take the
normal kitchen math match can't talk
this morning and it's not so bad because
this is kind of an accessible pilot
light but some of these things you're
laying on your belly on the floor
and you don't wanna but you just don't
have to keep ability getting there any
further so I'm just gonna tape this on
here and this will be our wand to go in
there and light over there and I'll keep
my hands far away far enough away they
also sell these things you know these
little but that's only six inches of
extension up here in the pilot control
knob 3 positions off pilot and on when
you in a pilot positions the gas is not
on you have to hold the gas button down
so I'll have to depress this and then
I'm going to use my match on a stick and
hold this thing down while the flame is
on the thermocouple long enough to
activate the metals in the thermocouple
and then we'll switch to on so a couple
different things hold this down light it
hold it and then after about 30 seconds
go to on you should be good to go hold
the button down gases are now and go
underneath and I don't know if you can
see you can see the gas our flashlight
is kind of making a dent but up a little
bit you can see I'm holding down the
button and while that gas is on there
I'm gonna turn it on there we go down
there we have gas and power
so in a generic fashion in a kind of
basic fashion function all furnaces are
the same for the pilot lighting the
configuration might be different this
might be way down low or light the up
higher but it's going to be behind the
plate and now you just need to buckle it
up the way you found it we're gonna put
the inspection plate back over it
okay we're buckled up we're gonna go
check the Front's thermostat and see if
we're getting heat upstairs so that's
how simple is this is for information
only consult a professional before you
try to do this yourself of course but as
always thanks for watching
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