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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I almost paid off my credit card. Then, a couple of hours later, my air conditioner broke. Found out it’s 12 years-old and leaking Freon. I’m going to have to get a whole new unit, which will cost me $6,500 to $10,050. FML
Today, my dryer was finally repaired after not working for over a month. I did one load of laundry and my washer stopped working. Another day, another $400+ repair bill. FML
Today, my boiler packed up on me just as the weather has turned cold, with no money to have it fixed. Hello to a week of freezing cold showers. FML
Today, after my washing machine broke yesterday in the middle of a cycle, I went and spent $1400 on a new one. Also today, my dryer started to smoke and almost caught my clothes on fire. There goes another $1000. FML
Today, during the worst flu we've ever had, my wife and I have to go out into thirty-below weather to get firewood because the furnace broke down. FML
Today, nearing the start of what I was hoping to be a relaxing week off, my air conditioning system died. A replacement system will be in the $7000 range, just the amount I'd finally saved for my dream vacation. FML
Today, our boiler broke. Yesterday, it was our fridge. The day before that, the deck collapsed, and a few weeks ago the dishwasher flooded the kitchen. This is after we spent a ton of money to have the house gutted due to a mold problem. We only bought the house a year ago, and have lived in it even less. We need to move. FML
Today, my furnace and all of my heating systems broke down. A fridge is 3 degrees Celsius; it is now 2 degrees Celsius in my house. I would be warmer in my fridge. FML
Today, I hit a patch of black ice and totaled my car. The car is a month old. For the next 5 years I'll be paying for a car I can't drive. FML
Today, after repairing the toilet, the light, the shower, the cooker and the heater in the flat I've just moved into, my boiler dies. It's mid December, about 1 degree outside. FML
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Top comments
MWidderAUDI 14
it always works the way, things break right after the warranty is up.
testestestes123 4
Murphy's law.
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Comments (77)
Acik91 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 18
Whoever made that warranty knew what he was doing.
sleepinginclass 8
Of course they did. It's their job.
Dcm210 19
Get a space heater?
ulissey_fml 22
You traded your furnace for ice in the hall...oh, for an ace in the hole!
Epikouros 32
So you had 20 years to save money for a new furnace and you didn't? YDI.
Sputnikspak 13
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
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
Same here! I'm sitting with an electric blanket!
perdix 31
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.
Jaevwyn 17
Was going to say get 8 more cobblestone and build another then I realised we were in the real world :(
kendallw13 15
it's hard to make a joke about a broken furnace