A lesson relearned

[ksmith]

Your house always knows when you have money.

Yes'm, it sure does.

Comments

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Sympathies!

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

This sounds ominous. I hope you didn't have too much money, cuz if you did, it must be a *huge* repair.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

::sniffle::

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

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.

It will be a non-trivial repair bill.

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Still, heat's good. Especially where you live.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I had plans for that money that involved paying off a bill early. Now, I don't know.

&^%$#!*::mutter::*&%$#

[planetalyx.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. *Runs around madly stopping up house's ears with wax.* Dammit, that's earmarked.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

It reads minds.

Bloody thing.

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Same thing happens when the car knows you need it to go on vacation.

Sympathies on the furnace.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

::runs out to garage to plug car's and truck's ears::

[pmrabble.livejournal.com]

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.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

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