{"id":4719,"date":"2010-12-03T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T01:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T18:47:06","slug":"todays-cautionary-tale-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-f-for-furnace-and-failure-and-fck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/todays-cautionary-tale-brought-to-you-by-the-letter-f-for-furnace-and-failure-and-fck\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s cautionary tale brought to you by the letter F, for furnace. And failure. And f*ck."},"content":{"rendered":"

S<\/span>o here’s my nickel’s worth of free advice for you. <\/p>\n

When your 19 year old (but only two months old to you) furnace starts making odd squeaky noises when it starts up, you should not ignore it. You may wish to ignore it, especially if you are in the midst of a newly identified mould remediation project which will cost you in the neighbourhood of $2,000, and a sump pump replacement that will cost you $1975, and the laying of new carpets which will cost you $1,300, and electrical work that will cost you just shy of a grand, and the ripping out and replacement of the basement shower, to fix the cause of the mould problem, whose cost has not yet been addressed, all of which makes December an incredibly expensive month already. Not to mention the $975 for snow tires. You may try, as we did, to deceive yourself into thinking that “Well, maybe that’s just the noise that a nearly 20 year old furnace makes.”<\/p>\n

That would be a mistake. Because when you come home from work on a Friday afternoon to find out that your furnace has died, the labour costs to replace the blower (not, as you were so desperately hoping, the heat exchanger, that was replaced 10 months ago and still under warranty) will be double the rates they would have been if it were not Friday night.<\/p>\n

So. That’s water, electricity, air and heat. That just about covers it, don’t ya think? Wait, don’t answer that question. I’m afraid to ask what else there could possibly be.<\/p>\n

The good news is, at least I don’t have to lie in bed at night, listening to the nauseating squeak of an obviously ailing furnace and fretting the worst, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here’s my nickel’s worth of free advice for you. When your 19 year old (but only two months old to you) furnace starts making odd squeaky noises when it starts up, you should not ignore it. You may wish to ignore it, especially if you are in the midst of a newly identified mould … Continue reading “Today’s cautionary tale brought to you by the letter F, for furnace. And failure. And f*ck.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,17,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happy-home","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-the-ongoing-saga-of-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}