Compressor's Shot!

Just before Christmas our furnace starting acting up a bit. It would heat the house, slightly, then stop heating and just blow cold air.

I called a 'guy' and never heard back from him. Guess he didn't want the business.

Besides, it was right before Christmas and I didn't figure it would be easy to get someone out, or without charging extra cuz of the holiday.

So we kinda waited.

Well, after New Years, I called a different place and the guy came out today.

He ran about 6 tests on our furnace and it came down to the compressor, you know the one inside the condensor unit.

Arghhh!

Not to mention, since the compressor's not been working, the furnace has been using the heater coils in it to heat the place, using a TON more electricity than usual. OUCH!!!! Oh well!

So we've got to replace the condensor which is a 4 digit job. So I checked to see what a new condensor would be, just a bit more, but the problem is, our unit was made in 2001 and two years ago they changed some major stuff on all furnaces to make them more efficient etc and to pay the extra would be worthless cuz it would take some extra work to make it compatable with the rest our system and not really be that useful.

That means we're back to having 'the guy' come out and replace the compressor in the condensor on either Thur or Fri.

I guess that's the just one of the lows of home ownership! :(

The whole good thing in this is I am extremely thankful that the temps outside here have been between the high 40's and 60's. That's much better than bein' below freezing like it was just a week ago!

More news after the 'job' is done!