We're natural gas here.

Thanks, Robert. Hope you recover quickly from having your wisdom teeth out. I've heard it is very unpleasant. I'm going to buy one of those gas detectors today to make sure we don't have any leaks, but I've sniffed around close to the floor and don't smell anything. When I realized that is normal fo...

Well, go the pilot light lit and furnace seems to be working normally here. You seem like nice people -- hope I can come back to ask questions if I ever need to fix it. I know you didn't mean to snub me, but were perplexed by the idiocy of my question. :-) Where I grew up, we heated with wood stoves...

So looking through old posts to this forum, I now understand that the burner motor needs to run for a bit before the furnace ignites, have I got this right? But how long should that take and is it normal for the burner motor to make a very noticeable loud sound?

I'm a real newbie and don't want to mess around with a gas furnace without some advice. We have a 1984 skyline with a CMF 80 PG furnace. It's our first year living here and I have no experience. Today it started getting colder. I opened up the furnace closet. The instructions in the closet said some...