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dkersten:
Yeah, I do the maintenance. It's easy to swap but I already paid for the guy to be there on Saturday, so the $30 more dollars for him to come out and swap it in isn't a big deal. Plus if the board doesn't work, this way I'm not liable for buying it. It's always good to have someone you can point the finger at and say "He did it."

I might see if I can get a hold of the guy who installed the thing originally. He can get the board at a discount and even put it in, but I will still owe the $150 for having a guy show up and not do anything.

pbj:
That guy that "didn't do anything" also wasn't able to go do something else while he was dealing with your walking catastrophe ass.

dkersten:

--- Quote from: pbj on September 21, 2015, 02:47:29 pm ---That guy that "didn't do anything" also wasn't able to go do something else while he was dealing with your walking catastrophe ass.

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I agreed to pay the $150 for him to drive to my house, spend 5 minutes testing then cleaning the flame sensor before declaring it wasn't the problem, then another 10 minutes staring at the control board before calling his boss and asking a couple questions then telling me he couldn't fix it and he would call back on Monday. If they charge me the full amount, I will pay it, but I won't be happy about it.

BTW, the $457 part costs $125. I had the guy who sold and installed the furnace check on it and he will have the part here tomorrow. The downside is if the $150 diagnosis is wrong I am stuck with a $125 board I don't need and still have to fix it. The upside is there is only 4 parts that can really go bad on these, one is the igniter and one is the valve, both work fine. The third is the flame sensor, and that costs about $20, so worst case scenario the guy who charged me $150 to come by on a Saturday morning got his diagnosis completely wrong and it will STILL cost me 70% less than it would have to have him fix it.

yotsuya:

--- Quote from: dkersten on September 21, 2015, 02:11:12 pm ---As the summer comes to a close, one final "F U" from the Anti Chuff dept. It got chilly the other night, so I fired up my furnace.

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Furnace? We'll still be running our AC until the end of October here....

dkersten:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on September 21, 2015, 05:08:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: dkersten on September 21, 2015, 02:11:12 pm ---As the summer comes to a close, one final "F U" from the Anti Chuff dept. It got chilly the other night, so I fired up my furnace.

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Furnace? We'll still be running our AC until the end of October here....

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was getting down to 45 degrees on Thursday and Friday.. Back up to 80 today, but this is Montana, it could snow tonight and be -30 tomorrow, lol.

Friday morning it was about 55 down in my basement, and that was just chilly enough to turn the heater on. Glad I did though, would suck if I waited until the first freeze and then found I had no heat. If it had been that cold, that HVAC place would have charged me $1500 and then told me I have a leak in the heat exchanger and insisted I replace it.. lol.

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