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Last spring I noticed the exhaust from the furnace smelled bad. I meant to call the furnace guy, but never got around to it. I figured I'd do it in the fall.
This fall it was fairly warm, so the furnace didn't run much. But a couple of weeks ago I figured I'd better call before it got really cold. So I... kept meaning to, but kept putting it off. Then it seemed like it wasn't heating as well. But I kept forgetting to call. A week ago Monday I was off work for the afternoon. Calling the place was one of only about three things on my to-do list that day, but I still forgot until about 4:00, when I learned they closed at 3:30. The entire rest of the week I forgot, every day!
By the weekend, I noticed the furnace was running almost continuously, and it still wasn't even that cold outside yet! I called on Sunday and left a message telling of the symptoms. The guy called back Monday morning and said he knew without looking at it, that the heat exchanger was shot. Fortunately for us, the exchanger was only 19 years into a 20-year recall warranty, so exchange of the exchanger was free.
Cyn had the week off, so she was home to keep the fireplace running, and it heated the house almost continuously for the last couple of days.
They guys came to fix it today. They told her that it was the worst one they had ever seen. The one guy said he replaces them every day, and he'd never seen a worse one. He didn't know how it was even still running.
It reminds of just a couple of months ago, when we had our door and window guy in to quote a door. He was showing us a feature of our windows (that he installed before we bought the place), and he noted that our screens were the dirtiest screens he'd ever seen. He sounded a little tentative the first time he said it, but when he mentioned it again, he was very certain.
Yay us?
This fall it was fairly warm, so the furnace didn't run much. But a couple of weeks ago I figured I'd better call before it got really cold. So I... kept meaning to, but kept putting it off. Then it seemed like it wasn't heating as well. But I kept forgetting to call. A week ago Monday I was off work for the afternoon. Calling the place was one of only about three things on my to-do list that day, but I still forgot until about 4:00, when I learned they closed at 3:30. The entire rest of the week I forgot, every day!
By the weekend, I noticed the furnace was running almost continuously, and it still wasn't even that cold outside yet! I called on Sunday and left a message telling of the symptoms. The guy called back Monday morning and said he knew without looking at it, that the heat exchanger was shot. Fortunately for us, the exchanger was only 19 years into a 20-year recall warranty, so exchange of the exchanger was free.
Cyn had the week off, so she was home to keep the fireplace running, and it heated the house almost continuously for the last couple of days.
They guys came to fix it today. They told her that it was the worst one they had ever seen. The one guy said he replaces them every day, and he'd never seen a worse one. He didn't know how it was even still running.
It reminds of just a couple of months ago, when we had our door and window guy in to quote a door. He was showing us a feature of our windows (that he installed before we bought the place), and he noted that our screens were the dirtiest screens he'd ever seen. He sounded a little tentative the first time he said it, but when he mentioned it again, he was very certain.
Yay us?
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Date: 2016-11-24 12:34 pm (UTC)From:What amazes me is that with a recall like a furnace, that no notification was mailed, or posted somewhere.
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Date: 2016-11-24 03:51 pm (UTC)From:Well, the recall wasn't a safety recall, like the ones you hear about, with cars. Though I would have liked our service guy to tell us about it, just to keep an eye (or a nose) out for a problem.
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Date: 2016-11-24 06:50 pm (UTC)From:Hmm, washing with a hose making it dirtier does not make sense. Unless a screen collects dirt normally, until you scrub it with soap.
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Date: 2016-11-25 01:28 am (UTC)From:The hose only sprays them from the outside, so maybe they stay dirty on the inside? I don't know, I just think it's odd that everybody apparently cleans their screens.
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Date: 2016-11-25 05:55 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, the heat pumps were out of warranty before installation, but that old repair guy made it his business to keep them going as long as he could. When the coolant they used went out of production, he purchased several barrels of it, and kept us topped off, and after that he would replace only the part of the system that used coolant, instead of replacing the entire heat pump. I did have to buy a new heat pump before anyone would legitimately bid on my house but when I sold I paid it off out of the proceeds of the house.
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Date: 2016-11-25 06:06 pm (UTC)From:Sounds like you had a good guy for a repairman.
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Date: 2016-11-25 06:32 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2016-11-24 04:22 pm (UTC)From:I think our windows are pretty grungy at this point...When the sun shines through them they look disgusting.
:P
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