Furnace fun!
Jan. 18th, 2014 08:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
monkey5sThe new furnace only made it eight days before it stopped working last night.
This peeves me. But the guy was in the office when I called just after 6 am, and he scheduled someone to come out at 8 am. The guy actually was here shortly after 7 am. And told me it was just that the outside air intake vent had been blocked, like maybe an animal was trying to keep warm there, or else the wind made it shut down. All he did was shut off the power and then turn it back on, and the unit started right up. There are so many things wrong with this situation that words fail me on that account.
Right now the furnace is still working to bring it up to the 67 degrees I have set (because in the hour between seeing that it was 50 degrees in here and the furnace guy getting here, it dropped to 43 degrees). I am waiting until it achieves that before I go get washed up. Yeah, when I got up to go to the bathroom shortly before 6 and realized it was 50 degrees in the house, I elected to just pull on yesterday's clothes instead of getting washed up and all that.
So. If you have a choice, don't pay attention to the Consumer Reports rating on furnaces. Just say no to Trane. Unless you live where there is no wind. Or anything that might manage to block the outside air intake vent.
This peeves me. But the guy was in the office when I called just after 6 am, and he scheduled someone to come out at 8 am. The guy actually was here shortly after 7 am. And told me it was just that the outside air intake vent had been blocked, like maybe an animal was trying to keep warm there, or else the wind made it shut down. All he did was shut off the power and then turn it back on, and the unit started right up. There are so many things wrong with this situation that words fail me on that account.
Right now the furnace is still working to bring it up to the 67 degrees I have set (because in the hour between seeing that it was 50 degrees in here and the furnace guy getting here, it dropped to 43 degrees). I am waiting until it achieves that before I go get washed up. Yeah, when I got up to go to the bathroom shortly before 6 and realized it was 50 degrees in the house, I elected to just pull on yesterday's clothes instead of getting washed up and all that.
So. If you have a choice, don't pay attention to the Consumer Reports rating on furnaces. Just say no to Trane. Unless you live where there is no wind. Or anything that might manage to block the outside air intake vent.
