Red Emergency Switch In Basement

An emergency off switch for the building heating system should be found outside of the basement or other boiler or furnace room location and accessible so that an occupant can in an emergency turn off heat without having to enter a possibly smoky or dangerous area.

Red emergency switch in basement.

Did someone accidentally bump the emergency switch off. It s higher than a normal light switch however so i ve never accidentally flipped it. How the furnace switch works. The most annoying problem of course is.

Secondly the location of the switch in the furnace room is a poor choice if there is a furnace emergency such as a gas leak or fire. It should have a red switch plate labeled gas burner or oil burner. These emergency switches should have a red wall plate. This circuit is served by its own circuit breaker in the breaker box properly called the main service panel the circuit wiring runs from the service panel to the disconnect switch and from there to the furnace.

First of all i usually need to get a broom or jump up to flip the switch for testing purposes. I recently had a home inspection for a house i am buying and the inspector said that because the 25 year old oil boiler in the basement does not have an emergency shut off switch at the top of the basement stairs he has to write it up. This switch is normally located at the top of the basement stairs or by the unit. If the furnace does not come on look for an emergency on off switch at the top of a basement stairway at the entrance to the room that houses the furnace or on the furnace itself.

I for one will not be running into a fire to try to reach the shut off switch. For example if the furnace is spewing carbon monoxide due to some fault you could die going down in the basement to shut it off. There is an emergency shut off switch for the boiler directly above the boiler.