Well, it’s been a fun few weeks. We moved in the end of January,
Thanks to all those that came and helped us! It is nice to have all our stuff
in “our” house, but it will be weeks if not months before we have everything
put away. We Are gaining though, a little here and a little there when we are
not working.
The doggy door is now installed making JJ a “happy dog” that
can come and go as he pleases. That makes us happy as well, we no longer have
to get up to let him in and out and I won’t have to stop working and go
upstairs to do the same during working hours.
The funny event so far, well funny to us, perhaps not so
much for the furnace guy. Our furnace stopped working a week after the furnace
guy had been here to talk to us about a gas line that goes through the air
intake duct. (its fine). We called him again and he was here the next day.
After he and his apprentice worked on the furnace for over two hours he
declared it a bad circuit board and ordered in a new one. Since we had a
portable propane heated and the weather was not too cold we made due for the
two days it took to get the part. He showed up with the part, changed it out,
but the furnace failed to come on as he expected. Again he worked on it for a
couple hours and managed to get it to work. Well, for a few hours at least. I
called him again that afternoon and he told me he would warrantee the board and
have a new one again in two more days.
True to his word, he showed up on the morning of the second
day with the new board and was on hold with the furnace company. One of the
first things he told me is that in the middle of the night he had woken up with
an idea that the problem might not be the board. He proceeded to check out a
pressure switch (one of two) and found that it was not wired correctly.
Apparently in the past someone had worked on the furnace and rather than fix
the problem had simply bypassed one of the switches. He hooked them up the way
they should have been, cleaned a bit of moisture out of lines and the furnace
fired up just like it was supposed to do…. An hour later he had the original board
back in place and the furnace was still working like it is supposed to… When I
tried to at least pay him for his time! When I pressed him he said it was a “learning
experience” for him and not my fault he couldn't find the problem to start
with.
One thing is certain, I will be recommending him to anyone
in the area that needs furnace work done!
A good furnace man is good to have when you have an old house!
ReplyDeleteGlad to see you all are settling in.
Luckily the furnace is not as old as the house. He said it was about 15 years old is all. the house was built in the 1920s. That said, I still agree, it is good to have someone I can rely on when needed. Might be talking to him about central air as well.
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