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Arguing with my friend about replacing his furnace

Dan has always been into research, which is why I did not understand why he insisted on waiting for the warranty of his furnace to expire before changing it.

  • I had visited him a couple of times in winter and realized that his house was unusually cold.

When we checked the thermostat, everything was well set. His HVAC technician had been around for the annual heater maintenance and asked him to consider changing the HVAC unit. The HVAC tune-up had revealed that most of the components in the system were slowly failing and not working as they should. Since many of the components seemed to be aging at the same time, the HVAC professional thought it wise to have a new heating and cooling unit instead of replacing the components. According to his experience, the problem will continue getting worse in the coming months and components will be failing one after the other. But for some reason, despite seeing the seriousness of the problem, Dan insisted on waiting until the 20th year mark. The old HVAC system he used in his house had been around for 17 years already. He said that he would have to wait for the three more years he had been guaranteed when buying the house from the previous owner. Unfortunately for him, his furnace was dying and the consequences were high electric bills. I even offered to help him with half of the replacement budget so that he could have the new HVAC installation done but he was still stubborn. He insisted on waiting it out and this was something none of us could understand.

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