caro
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Post by caro on Jan 9, 2015 21:56:01 GMT
On some of the coldest days we've had and getting a heating company to come out is next to impossible???
I live in the south, it does get cold, sometimes bone chilling. Well, it's been below freezing for a couple of days and the heat is playing games with me. It will come on at very random times but not before I'm freezing.
The earliest I've found a company can come out is Monday.
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mimima
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Post by mimima on Jan 9, 2015 22:04:52 GMT
It does seem to be the way, doesn't it? I'm sorry.
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Post by scrapnnana on Jan 9, 2015 22:05:01 GMT
Ours did that,the day before Thanksgiving, and things got a bit chilly before the heating company came. Our heater went out on Wednesday. We had a new system installed by Tuesday. Ours that had gone out was 21 years old, and it had lasted longer than the expected heater life span.mee could have fixed it, but we knew it would need to be replaced before long, anyway, so we decided not to spend a couple hundred for a system that was dying.
We survived the days we had to wait by buying a few small, portable electric heaters from Costco. They did a pretty decent job of keeping the house above 60 degrees, despite how cold it got outside.
It's nice to have a working heater. Not having it makes you really appreciate it. My sympathies that yours isn't working. I hope you get the problem fixed quickly!
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tiffanytwisted
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Post by tiffanytwisted on Jan 9, 2015 22:06:56 GMT
The same odds that Hurricane Sandy will blow into your state 2 days before your already leaky roof was due to be replaced. Which of course meant is was weeks before we could get it done. I mean, people who had lost everything had to come before us & our sieve-for-a-roof, so I completely understood. The timing was just unbelievable.
The sames odds that the day they do come to replace the roof (and take out the flue from the fireplace we'll eventually replace w/a wood stove) is the day the heat will go out. I don't remember how long it took us to get a guy out to fix it, but the irony of it happening the same day we lost our fireplace did not escape us.
I feel your pain, I truly do.
Bundle up and hang in there!
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Post by smokey2471 on Jan 9, 2015 22:18:05 GMT
Yes yesterday was 20 degrees and our heater was working but not blowing out hot enough air. It was blowing 83 degrees and should have been blowing 110-115+
Thankfully bil owns a heat/air company and came right over. It was also kicking off every 30 min or so for 30 min. It was like 55 degrees in house when we woke up. Ours were the heat strips (?) Were not working. They are now and we are toasty warm.
Sorry about your heat. If he had not been able to fix it I had 1 space heater and we were going to all pile in and sleep together!!
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Sue
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Post by Sue on Jan 9, 2015 22:27:43 GMT
Hint: Check the batteries in your thermostat. Our heat went out last week when it was in the twenties here. We have oil heat and were able to start the furnace by lighting a piece of paper and throwing it in the firebox whenever it got cold in the house. This went on for a day and then the furnace starting magically working on its own. Finally found someone who could come out the following day and he checked and found everything in perfect working order with the furnace. Unbeknownst to us, the upstairs thermostat had batteries which controlled the operation of the ignitor in the furnace itself. Bad batteries. Ugh.. $200 to find that out. Ouch.
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modiemay
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Post by modiemay on Jan 9, 2015 22:29:33 GMT
Mine went on,Tuesday when it was -7c. I feel your pain.
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Post by janniepea on Jan 9, 2015 22:37:31 GMT
That happened a few times when we lived in Wisconsin and New York and always when it was extremely cold!
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eastcoastpea
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Post by eastcoastpea on Jan 9, 2015 22:44:23 GMT
It happened here once. It wasn't pretty. I hope they get you to faster than expected. Keep warm.
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IAmUnoriginal
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Post by IAmUnoriginal on Jan 9, 2015 22:46:29 GMT
Do you have a local insurance agent? Sometimes, there will be a one man HVAC shop they insure and know the owner well enough to make a referral call. We do it A LOT for our clients. Our client gets referred to someone we know is trustworthy and our commercial client gets referral business. Good luck!
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Jan 9, 2015 23:20:31 GMT
Oh geeze. Our guy is usually out within 20 minutes, unless he is on a call. But in an emergency - 24 hours a day - he will be right here.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jan 10, 2015 0:20:50 GMT
I'm guessing that it's the same odds as our power going out on a 40 C (104 F) day here the other day, so no cooling!
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caro
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Post by caro on Jan 10, 2015 1:02:42 GMT
We did replace the batteries recently but I'm going to replace again just in case.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jan 10, 2015 1:23:14 GMT
We had to have the plumber out today because the outside spigots froze in the very cold weather Wednesday night. Then when it warmed up this morning the break became apparent. Thank goodness I was home this morning to catch it (I'm off on Fridays). The plumber did come today and capped off the lines but won't get back to do actual repairs for about a week. He said they are slammed with similar problems. So I'm sure the heating/AC guys in our area are, too. Hope yours limps along until the guy can come to repair it!
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Post by Dori~Mama~Bear on Jan 10, 2015 1:51:05 GMT
I hate heating problems in the cold weather. We have a gas fireplace so if our furnace ever goes out we can use that and close off all the bedrooms. We also have a electric fireplace that we can plug in and turn on.
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Nink
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Post by Nink on Jan 10, 2015 1:54:38 GMT
When I first read your post I mis-read it as "what are the odds your heart goes out?" I was hoping they were pretty good against it.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Jan 10, 2015 2:03:32 GMT
Oh man. So sorry.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jan 10, 2015 2:46:53 GMT
Twice in the last five years, always when it is the coldest of cold, I went 3 weeks with no heat--the heating co forgot about us!!!
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Post by jemali on Jan 10, 2015 3:15:11 GMT
Well, that is when you are making it work the hardest.
I realized one time that when the temperature outside is 0 and I want the temperature inside to be 68, that is a lot of work for my furnace!
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