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Woke up early this morning because I knew I would need to clear snow from the drive. Noticed the house was cold and discovered the furnace died. Went out to get the snow blower out for the first time this year and it won't start. Shoveled the drive by hand and have to pay $3000+ for a new furnace. Happy New Year.

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Move to Texas. The last leaves didn't fall off the trees until December 23.

Of course, if you AC goes out in the summer, you're totally fucked (and nasty sweaty), so maybe better the devil you know, etc.

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My hvac shit the bed as they say this past summer after numerous repairs to lengthen its life. I feel your pain financially. Three years ago to the day it quit. My wife was supposed to be hosting a baby shower here. I was out of town on business. It was 43* in the house that week. She stayed at her parents as we had it repaired and the house warmed back up. Hurt.

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These Energy Star Tax Credits change almost every year. Believe me I know. Sometimes they are funded late.

When Congress gets their act together to pass this years credit, you'll see them reinstated. Since each State follows the Federal Law, you'll have to check with your State Office for any bundling of your local programs for credits and/or incentives.

By the way, the last Fed. Law covered the years from 2005-2011( with yearly tinkering by officials), but in this election year, everything is up for grabs.

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Hopefully you got a second opinion. When our furnace went down (which was over 40 years old) the first guy wanted to replace it at a cost of $4k. The second guy replaced the little ignitor thingy for $100 and it was good as new. It lasted another couple years until we were lucky enough to get some city grants to replace it with a new, high-efficiency model. Except the new model doesn't heat the house as well.

Anyway, sorry to hear it. Hopefully you got all the crap out of the way for this year already! :)

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Sorry to hear this ... and I thought I was hit bad when I started the new year with a flat tire when returning to the car after New Year's eve party. Had caught a nail on the way into town ... As I would have needed replacement anyway at the beginning of next season, it was two new tires on the back wheels. I had the two on the front axis replaced three months ago, and lost one of these a month later when I damaged the side on some iron post. So I had five new tires in three months for a total of € 400 ... they gave me rebate on the last two ... but that's peanuts compared to a new furnace. Hope it lasts a while.

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Woke up early this morning because I knew I would need to clear snow from the drive. Noticed the house was cold and discovered the furnace died. Went out to get the snow blower out for the first time this year and it won't start. Shoveled the drive by hand and have to pay $3000+ for a new furnace. Happy New Year.

I hear you ! Mine packed in just before Xmas so I am using backup electric heating. The 'fix' will involve re-routing the gas supply to the upper part of the house (as the old boiler location is no longer legal under building regs thanks to EU changes :rmad:) , a new boiler in the loft with new flue outlet install, power-flush of all the radiators and new water cylinder. About 3x your bill, all in, to fix (inc. VAT at 20%).

The only saving grace is that at 22 years old, the boiler was due for a changeout. <_<

No more Mosaics for me until the next decade. :(

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Make sure you check they take steps to put a device on the condensate pipe that kicks in in sub-zero temperatures. I had a new boiler 3 years back - it's brilliant except when the temperature drops below zero. Then the liquid in the condensate pipe freezes and the boiler shuts down as a safety measure. So I have a central heating system that turns off when it gets really cold (6 days over last Xmas)! A few days the winter before.

They are coming to put a widget in in February (£300!) which will hopefully solve this. Praying the weather keeps mild till then!

Common problem with new boilers - the engineer told me it was the main reason for callout last winter.

All explained here:

http://www.britishgas.co.uk/condensate-pipe.html

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I know how that feels when the furnace dies. My furnace died on my birthday last year and it cost me about 6k to put a new one in. I wonder if living in New York made the price higher?

Do you really wonder? Everything on Long Island is artificially more expensive than elsewhere!

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I'm faced with a different kind of problem: Starting January 1, my refrigerator thinks it's a freezer! Seriously.

That would possibly be the thermistor failing ! Happened to me last year - and it was a good German unit (Miele) too. Thermistor changeout sorted it out.

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