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Posted by CJT on September 10, 2007, 6:15 pm
clifto wrote:
> Moe Jones wrote:
>
>>bigjcw1023@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>>I need detailed instructions for cleaning and maintaining my furnace.
>>>It is a 25 year old giesel and still runs good, and I want to keep it
>>>that way.
>>
>>Just pay to have a HVAC technician come out to check the furnace to make
>>sure it is in good working condition and it's safe then have him tell you
>>what you as the home owner can do to maintain the furnace.
>
>
> Shortly after I moved into this house, I found there was a factory recall
> on my furnace, or more correctly the factory wanted to do a modification
> to prevent something bad from happening. I called the factory and asked
> them if they knew anything about the people who installed it, whose tag
> was on the furnace, and the factory spoke highly of the dealer. So I
> called the dealer and arranged a service call.
>
> Now, the recall involved paying the dealer their usual service-call fee,
> PLUS an extra $25, PLUS giving them free parts. So I figured this was a
> fairly good deal for them. Apparently they didn't think so, because
> two months later I was calling them again to find out why I hadn't been
> called and scheduled for a visit. So they got off their lead asses and
> scheduled something for a few months down the road.
>
> When they finally came, the guy disassembled a lot of stuff, said he
> replaced the parts, and broke a safety interlock microswitch. He wired
> across the switch and said he'd schedule a service call to replace it.
>
> It's been four years now, and they haven't bothered. If you think I'm
> going to let them touch anything inside this house ever again, you're
> wrong.
>
> So tell me again how I'm going to call a factory-recommended professional
> to come out, tell me my furnace is ten years old and needs to be replaced
> for five times his cost, and then tweak a few things for the worse when
> I tell him I want a second opinion.
>
I called a "professional" out once to look at my AC compressor. He
disconnected pretty much every wire in sight, said, "You need a new
one," and when I asked him instead to reconnect what he had disconnected
so that I could get a second opinion, he got in his truck and drove
away.
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