Central Pennsylvania Nesties
Hannah and Alfie
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Home ownership rant
We bought our house in December of 2008. I don't see how this house passed inspection.
Last week we paid $600 to have the roof patched. After having our furnance cleaned, we heard a loud boom. We though maybe a birds nest was in the chimney, so we called a chimney sweep. Nope turns out the liner inside was put in wrong and only has a 1" opening at one point. So no heat for us, until we can get this fixed. The company can't schedule us until November 5th and it will cost us $2000.
This is getting crazy. I hope nothing else goes wrong. We really cannot afford it.
Sorry, girls. Thanks for letting me vent.
Hannah and Alfie
Re: Home ownership rant
How old is the home? What was mentioned during the inspection and the owners disclosure?
Now when you say chimney... are you still talking about the furnace? Do you mean the duct work for the furnace or really the chimney? The chimney shouldn't have anything to do with the furnace.
Check any insurance you have to see what all it covers. Sometimes it will cover things like roofs and furnaces depending on what is found to be the cause, especially if it wasn't a maintenance issue.
The house was built in 1880. There was no mention of anything. It is the stove pipe lining from the furnance that goes up the chimney.
Sorry, if I am not making sense.
I totally understand your rant about home ownership, I feel that way sometimes about our place. After we moved in we were finding all sorts of things we would have thought the inspections would have gotten.
You may want to look into a protection plan for your furnace. We signed up for one through our oil company. I think it was $200 for the year and it includes a cleaning and 24 hour maintance on it.
We got the maintance/service protection plan on our furnace when we moved in too -- $179.99 through ABC Oil and it covers 24 hour maint./1 cleaning a year/ and any parts that would be needed to fix it. I think it's a deal! And for signing up to be a new customer, they gave us the firs year free, which is sweet because we didn't pay anything!
We just had our furnace cleaned and the guy cleaned out our pipe for us -- lucky he did - he said it was 95% blocked. Yikes!
I know what you mean about the "joys" of homeownership -- hang in there, now that you'll be getting it fixed, just try to be religious about staying ontop of it and keeping it clean...