Money and Miscellaneous: Today, my furnace broke down, almost a month after its twenty...

By chillyinside - 10/02/2013 05:03 - Canada

Today, my furnace broke down, almost a month after its twenty year warranty expired. It would have been replaced for free. Now I'm going to have to take out a loan to afford the $4,000 replacement. FML

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Sunday 10 February 2013 12:19

it always works the way, things break right after the warranty is up.

testestestes123 4

Sunday 10 February 2013 12:19

Murphy's law.

Comments

Acik91 26

Sunday 10 February 2013 13:26

Guys, they actually perform detailed calculations to set the warranty period accordingly, so that they would not have to pay too many compensations. Statistics is a bitch.

TheyCallMeDamien 17

Sunday 10 February 2013 13:29

Whoever made that warranty knew what he was doing.

sleepinginclass 8

Sunday 10 February 2013 17:20

Of course they did. It's their job.

Dcm210 19

Sunday 10 February 2013 13:56

Get a space heater?

ulissey_fml 22

Sunday 10 February 2013 14:24

You traded your furnace for ice in the hall...oh, for an ace in the hole!

Epikouros 31

Sunday 10 February 2013 14:40

So you had 20 years to save money for a new furnace and you didn't? YDI.

Sputnikspak 13

Sunday 10 February 2013 16:03

Our furnace was installed in 1946. It still works, though we've switched to electric baseboard heating. We still heat our water by propane, so in a power outage, we just have to clear the plastic out of the furnace grate, and hook it up to the propane. That's almost 70 years that the furnace has been working. We test it every year to make sure it works, so far? It's never broken down, only needed to be cleaned a few times. It's not uncommon to expect a furnace to last longer than it's life. Not having any emergency money as a homeowner is a bad idea, that's definitely true, but not paying exact attention to when your furnace's warranty is going to expire is pretty normal. I'll wager this was only discovered after the furnace broke down.

Headcrab 29

Sunday 10 February 2013 15:05

Maybe when you ask nicely they'll repair it for free. In Europe you could demand something like that. It's not lime you should expect something to break any day from the day the warranty is over.

Annienc 5

Sunday 10 February 2013 15:11

Same here! I'm sitting with an electric blanket!

perdix 29

Sunday 10 February 2013 15:26

Are you sure you read your warranty right? Most long-term warranties give you only "pro-rated" coverage, so if your furnace broke in year 19, you'd only get 1/20 the price.