A nice, new super efficient furnace is resting in our basement, taking the chill out of the house as we speak. The rub is, that apparently, gas appliances have empathy or each other.
It seems that as the old furnace breathed it's last, it's dear friend the water heater couldn't take the loneliness, and went into renal failure. It's not dead yet, but it doesn't have long. We're hoping to send it to be with it's friend before it has a stroke and gives up the ghost entirely.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Cracked What?
So the furnace began acting up a few day ago, and stopped giving us wonderful, soothing heat. At first we just put it off, figuring warm weather was just around the corner. But, then it got colder, so we said to hell with this, and called the repair guy.
The furnace is pretty new, just installed in '95, so I was thinking the problem was nothing major: a bad thermostat, a sensor on the fritz, or something else low impact that would wind up costing a hundred bucks and we'd go back to our not so chilly business.
I know nothing about furnaces, the guy could have told me it needs a kidney transplant and I wouldn't know the difference, but the words "Cracked Heat Exchanger" sound ominous. Indeed it is, as apparently that is a fatal condition for gas furnaces.
We get to be cold for a little bit longer while things get sorted out, but at least it's not the dead of winter.
Update 4/10 @ 11:40 am:
Tomorrow morning the furnace will be replaced, so our time of cold is coming to an end. Even the cat was cold this morning, so we're glad that this is almost done with.
The furnace is pretty new, just installed in '95, so I was thinking the problem was nothing major: a bad thermostat, a sensor on the fritz, or something else low impact that would wind up costing a hundred bucks and we'd go back to our not so chilly business.
I know nothing about furnaces, the guy could have told me it needs a kidney transplant and I wouldn't know the difference, but the words "Cracked Heat Exchanger" sound ominous. Indeed it is, as apparently that is a fatal condition for gas furnaces.
We get to be cold for a little bit longer while things get sorted out, but at least it's not the dead of winter.
Update 4/10 @ 11:40 am:
Tomorrow morning the furnace will be replaced, so our time of cold is coming to an end. Even the cat was cold this morning, so we're glad that this is almost done with.
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