It's the furnace. It's not venting properly, so they need to install a chimney liner. Luckily it's a high efficiency furnace--no CO in the basement, where it's installed and into which it's partially venting.
I suppose this route is cheaper than the even newer super-dooper high efficiency furnaces that vent out pvc pipes to the side of the house. Still, sounds like expensive, especially this time of (cough cough emergency repair surcharge) year in the frigid north.
I have woodburning fireplaces, which is why the furnace was vented through a chimney rather than a pipe to the side of the house.
The super high efficency furnace that was available 6 or so years ago, when I had the existing unit installed, cost 2-2.5x the unit I wound up buying. G
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Date: 2006-12-07 11:21 pm (UTC)It will be a non-trivial repair bill.
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Date: 2006-12-07 11:38 pm (UTC)&^%$#!*::mutter::*&%$#
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Date: 2006-12-08 04:41 pm (UTC)The super high efficency furnace that was available 6 or so years ago, when I had the existing unit installed, cost 2-2.5x the unit I wound up buying. G
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Date: 2006-12-08 12:31 am (UTC)Bloody thing.
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Date: 2006-12-08 02:15 am (UTC)Sympathies on the furnace.
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