With the coming of Fall, we’re typically greeted with the picking out of pumpkins, doing the fall colors drive, and the winterizing of the home. Well, I guess it wouldn’t be life if we didn’t throw in a few curve balls.

We’ve got a big driveway (long anyway) and were pretty decided on the fact that we’d need a snow-thrower and that a shovel just wouldn’t cut it. So we ended up dropping $800 on one that would sufficiently get the job done and not break on us in the middle of February. So… that went on the Home Depot card.

Lovely.

Last tuition payment coming up soon for Natalie — that’s gonna hurt a little. Another $500 sucked from the marrow of our bank account.

And as if these things weren’t enough our FURNACE broke down last Saturday. I came home to the smell of burnt circuitry (a familiar smell from the days when Jamison blew up his bass amp in my basement) and a cold house. Lovely. I thought it would be something simple like the ignitor going out.

Nope.

Apparently there’s this metal overflow container that rusted out and spilled water all over some circuit board, the transformer, and a few other items creating a veritable fiesta of burnt circuitry smell throughout the house. This job is going to cost us over $900 to get our furnace back in working order again. Here’s the kicker.

Three years ago, the previous owners of our house were notified about a recall for this metal overflow container on their furnace, to spend $300 and replace the item with a plastic container instead. THEY NEVER ACTED ON THE RECALL whereby sticking us with the bill.

AAAARRRGGGHH!!!

Now I understand money may have been tight for them… but $300 as opposed to $950??? Let’s see… which one might be the cheaper of options? I’m going to try and work something out with Bryant (the manufacturer) and see if they can’t get involved in the game.

Anyway, kinda feelin’ the crunch. I was going to get new tires on my car, but that’s gonna have to get put off even further. :-/

October 18, 2005, 4:01 pm

Filed under: General, Home Ownership

1 Comment »

1. Jamison said,

   October 18, 2005 @ 7:45 pm

   What is it with moving into houses and needing to replace the furnace? Both of my houses I’ve had to replace the furnaces….

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