Saturday, November 22, 2008

Thank you furnace men Rob and Chris

Five years ago when we moved to this house we were thrilled to get a normal size furnace instead of the old coal furnace that had been converted to natural gas that we had at our old house. The beast at the old house worked like a charm but took up most of the basement as it was huge and had huge arms .About a month after moving in though we wished we still had the beast as our little baby furnace quit working. Luckily we had a home buyers protection policy and a repair man came and fixed this baby of a furnace at no cost to us.As the baby furnace grew into a toddler furnace in the next year we had more problems. Again we called the furnace doctor who came and transplanted another motor, however this time we paid for it. This transplant lasted about a year and a half until the motor failed again. Luckily after watching the first two professionals save our furnace Mike had learnt the procedure and did the next transplant himself. This transplant took and we were good for the next almost two years which brings us to last Christmas eve when our now adolescent furnace went into complete failure. Since the only professional furnace doctors who would even answer their phones wanted two hundred an hour to look at it, we were without heat until one furnace angel returned our call and talked Mike through furnace CPR. We got the furnace running( just in time for Midnight mass) but knew that the arrangement was only a temporary band aid. After Christmas we called the furnace angel who told us that as long as it was still working to leave it alone but that we would probably need to replace it soon. Praise God it lasted all winter and even started up last month for this coming winter season, however we soon found the need for a new blower motor. Since any money going into this ill furnace would just be a waste we broke down and called a friend of my Brother's who had done work on my brother's sick furnace and replaced my Dad's when it was no longer viable. This man got us a great deal on a new baby model which is half the size of our last. This morning bright and early he was here to introduce us to our new baby and get her set up. He even took our old furnace and promised to use many of her still usable parts ( something about the motor being used to power his spit for his next pig roast) So welcome to our new preemie furnace. We look forward to many years of basking in your warmth And a big Thank you to Rob and Chris the furnace men who made it all possible !