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$760 Circuit Board or new system ? Jim 11-10-2007
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Posted by Jim on November 10, 2007, 3:52 pm
Hello,

Just returned from military deployment and my welcome back gift from
the wife was "the AC and Heater need to be fixed".
I have a York furnace and AC, it is 13 years old (contractor grade).

I had two companies come out. They both agreed that the AC should be
replaced but they differed on the furnace.
Company A said replace the bad circuit board ($760) and you should be
good for another 7 years. Company B recommended replacing the furnace
because it will "nickel and dime" us, a new one is much more efficient
and that we would save some in labor having it all done at once.

Any opinions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jim


Posted by Zyp on November 10, 2007, 4:13 pm
Jim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just returned from military deployment and my welcome back gift from
> the wife was "the AC and Heater need to be fixed".
> I have a York furnace and AC, it is 13 years old (contractor grade).
>
> I had two companies come out. They both agreed that the AC should be
> replaced but they differed on the furnace.
> Company A said replace the bad circuit board ($760) and you should be
> good for another 7 years. Company B recommended replacing the furnace
> because it will "nickel and dime" us, a new one is much more efficient
> and that we would save some in labor having it all done at once.
>
> Any opinions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim

Where are you located Jim?

--
Zyp



Posted by Jim on November 10, 2007, 4:47 pm
> Jim wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Just returned from military deployment and my welcome back gift from
> > the wife was "the AC and Heater need to be fixed".
> > I have a York furnace and AC, it is 13 years old (contractor grade).
>
> > I had two companies come out. They both agreed that the AC should be
> > replaced but they differed on the furnace.
> > Company A said replace the bad circuit board ($760) and you should be
> > good for another 7 years. Company B recommended replacing the furnace
> > because it will "nickel and dime" us, a new one is much more efficient
> > and that we would save some in labor having it all done at once.
>
> > Any opinions would be appreciated.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Jim
>
> Where are you located Jim?
>
> --
> Zyp- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Va

Jim


Posted by Zyp on November 10, 2007, 5:26 pm
Jim wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>
>>> Just returned from military deployment and my welcome back gift from
>>> the wife was "the AC and Heater need to be fixed".
>>> I have a York furnace and AC, it is 13 years old (contractor grade).
>>
>>> I had two companies come out. They both agreed that the AC should be
>>> replaced but they differed on the furnace.
>>> Company A said replace the bad circuit board ($760) and you should
>>> be good for another 7 years. Company B recommended replacing the
>>> furnace because it will "nickel and dime" us, a new one is much
>>> more efficient and that we would save some in labor having it all
>>> done at once.
>>
>>> Any opinions would be appreciated.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>
>>> Jim
>>
>> Where are you located Jim?
>>
>> --
>> Zyp- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Va
>
> Jim

Are you out in the "sticks" like Paul?

Did a little person come out as one of the tech's?


--
Zyp



Posted by HVAC Guy on November 10, 2007, 11:23 pm
Jim wrote:

> Just returned from military deployment and my welcome back gift
> from the wife was "the AC and Heater need to be fixed".

Your welcome-to-this-newsgroup gift will be - basically nothing useful
(if you're lucky) and more likely some verbal abuse if you ask too
many questions.

> Company A said replace the bad circuit board ($760) and you
> should be good for another 7 years. Company B recommended
> replacing the furnace because it will "nickel and dime" us

The blue-collar hvac dweebs who will even bother to answer will
basically agree that you need to empty your wallet on a new furnace,
preferrably one with a board that will cost $1500 to replace when it
goes bad in the future.

> Any opinions would be appreciated.

The AC can wait until spring (you're not saying what part of the AC is
the problem).

As for the circuit board, $760 is a ripoff considering that a Pentium
Core-2 Intel motherboard with CPU will cost about half that. The
board probably costs $100 and they're charging $660 to install it.

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