Beat - furnace quit working, $282 bill
 

My furnace went out over night, and it was 50 degrees in my house in the morning. Got a guy to come out and take a look. $282 later, he tells me the fan was tripped because I didn't change my filter (how did I not do that?), and there was a couple handfuls of dirt in the coils.

I guess I can brag that at least my house didn't catch fire and burn down because of this.

Re: Beat - furnace quit working, $282 bill
 

Thats actually pretty cheap, all things considering

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Yea, I guess I should be happy that I don't have to buy a new one. I just hate these random, unforseen expenses that pop up.

Re: Beat - furnace quit working, $282 bill
 

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Thats actually pretty cheap, all things considering

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yeah, usually WAY more than that. still sux though.

Re: Beat - furnace quit working, $282 bill
 

I thought bill = billion, lame.

Re: Beat - furnace quit working, $282 bill
 

wow, 282 dude.

how are you ever going to climb out of that econonimical disaster

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The fan was tripped? I worked in the industry 10yrs ago....
When he say the was dirt in your coil, I suspect A-coil above the furnace, but that really wont affect your heating, but it could affect cooling in the summer. Did he take the plenum apart (box above furnace) to get to A coil?
It's actually a pain in the ass to clean this....

Gota be careful with HVAC. They know people don't know chit about their own equipment and they tend to stick it too you... Not saying they robbed you, but you have details from the bill what they did? Seems quite high...

Did they replace any parts?

Re: Beat - furnace quit working, $282 bill
 

Meh

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WOW, dude you just got mugged for 282

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Well, they charged $80 for just coming out to visit. And I believe he was there for 3 hours. I know it was a pretty big pain for him to clean. I know absolutely nothing about furnaces, so for all I know I may have been mugged by this guy, which would make this beat even more unfathomable.

I will say this guy seemed to know what he was doing -- he definitely wasn't an idiot.