Woke up Freezing! No Heat
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
United States
January 31, 2020 7:13am CST
Yesterday I brought to the attention of my family, a problem involving the heating. I heard a very shrill noise coming from the heating. By the time my family came to investigate, the noise was gone.
This morning, whilst I still slept, they heard the same noise again. This time they decided to turn off the heat while they were out of the house. I was bundled up in my bed mostly unaware.
We've now called the HVAC people and hope that they'll call us back soon.
We also hope it won't cost us an arm and a leg.
How's your morning / afternoon / evening / night?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
Tuesday is when the part comes in, hopefully it's also when they get their happy selves here to put it in.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@CarolDM Certainly will. We have plenty of blankets here to do just that. I guess it's perfect weather to wear a onesie as well.
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Stay warm in the meantime.
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@Swayamsiddha (4354)
• New Delhi, India
1 Feb 20
My morning began with a rough patch....also..my condition regarding the chilly cold in your house is almost like yours...
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
1 Feb 20
I'm sorry your morning started off bad. So your house is also cold?
@Swayamsiddha (4354)
• New Delhi, India
1 Feb 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes...it is .
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@besweet It's about 30 degrees farneheit or -1 degrees celsius.
Inside the house it's 67 degrees farneheit or 19 degress celsius.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
Thank You. There is supposed to be someone here in a few hours.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
They are expected to come between noon and 2 pm. I hope they arrive earlier than that.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@LadyDuck Yes it is. We have been colder than usual as well. It's been in the 30 degree range at night (That's about -1 in celsius), and in the day, it has gotten no hotter than 40 or 50 degrees.
Today we also expect rain. It's now 11:16, I am personally hoping they'll come shortly after noon.
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@LadyDuck (471456)
• Switzerland
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Not having heating is a problem in winter.
@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum
I hope it gets fixed. Not a good idea for you to be cold in the winter.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
Yes, I agree. We have heat but the pipe within the furnace room is far too hot. The family turned the heat off before they left, and have since turned it back on. We have called and there will be someone out to tell us what is going on soon.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@Hannihar I hope not. We think we know what is wrong with it, but even a small part can cost a lot of money.
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@Hannihar (130218)
• Israel
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum
I hope it will not cost you an arm and a leg.
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@Shivram59 (35572)
• India
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I hope the HVAC people have fixed it.....We in this eastern part of India don't need heating.It is already too hot here.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
They are supposed to be here between noon and 2 pm. Here in my State the weather changes often. A few weeks ago we had warm temperatures and yet it's winter.
@Shivram59 (35572)
• India
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Temperature here took a dip this winter .In mid December we had 5 C in our town.To me it was unprecedented. Never before in my life I had experienced such a shivering cold.And then mercury began moving northwards and now it is getting hot and hotter everyday.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@Shivram59 I do not think I could survive in a hot environment. I start feeling suffocated when I get too hot.
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@youless (112507)
• Guangzhou, China
2 Feb 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum That's quite much. Perhaps buying the new equipment won't be higher a lot?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
2 Feb 20
@youless That is the price of the new equipment plus the cost to install the new equipment. We will have paid $1,200 once all is said and done. We paid $105 on friday just for the worker to come and look at what was wrong.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
2 Feb 20
It will actually end up costing around $1000.
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@snowy22315 (180870)
• United States
31 Jan 20
I hope it gets fixed. Unless it is bitterly cold I don't have the heat on in here. I use a space heater and my fake woodstove which throws a lot of heat. It's in the bedroom and keeps me cozy. In fact if it is on full blast it gets too warm in there.
@snowy22315 (180870)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yikes! They told me my heat pump if it breaks it will have to probably be replaced..They can add freon and so forth..but they aren't making parts for it anymore,,and it isn't even old. No more than 16 years anyway.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
We are able to use the heat, but they will need to replace a component within the fan from what I understand. It will cost quite a bit of money, over $1000.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@snowy22315 Yes, that's a hefty fee. Our entire system is about forty years old. Parts have been replaced over the years, but I think the original shell of it is as old as the house, so really about forty five years old.
Wow, I wonder why they stopped making parts for it? I also thought that most HVAC parts came with a 20 year warranty. We had something else we had to replace a few years and he said something like that.
@RebeccasFarm (89870)
• Arvada, Colorado
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Maybe it is just a clogged filter I hope.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@RebeccasFarm It could be that. Our filter is an old one that you just vacuum. I've told the menfolk that we should replace it. Do they listen? No. 
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
I certainly hope not. I also hope it is an easy fix. Right now we have the heat on, but I do not think we should have it on.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
They'll be here between noon and 2 pm. I hope so too.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@marlina We had the air con go out on us over the summer. Now it's the heat.
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum , Let's hope that they can fix it without too much money.
WE had trouble last Spring and they had to order a new motor and we froze for 2 days.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
We hope so too. They will be here between noon and 2 pm today. I also hope it won't be an expensive fix.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@rakski It ended up costing over $1000, or it will when they get the part. One Thousand.
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@garymarsh6 (23405)
• United Kingdom
31 Jan 20
OH lord and it is typical it is playing up in the winter months. Never does in the summer when you use it less! Hope you manage to get it sorted soon!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
Oh, but it actually did act up in the summer. That is, the air conditioning did. It's usually the heat every winter. We began to count ourselves lucky that it was not acting up. It seems we were hopeful too soon.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@garymarsh6 I have heard that the UK doesn't really use aircon. I guess the temperatures are usually decent enough to open a window to allow air flow? We usually open windows in the spring.
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@garymarsh6 (23405)
• United Kingdom
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum OH right it does the heat and the aircon. How clever. In the UK we do not use aircon that much in the home. Probably only about 2% have aircon if that!
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
31 Jan 20
Oh I know how awful that feels when you are so cold-- the same happened to us when we were in our cottage before we sold it. Absolutely freezing and we had to wait 2 days for help!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
1 Feb 20
I once lived in a place that had no heat for the winter. Our thermostat had an emergency heat setting and even that went out. It was a cold winter.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
4 Feb 20
@MarymargII They are supposed to call today as the part is supposed to come in. We shall see.
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@MarymargII (12422)
• Toronto, Ontario
4 Feb 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum wow I know too- it is very uncomfortable and I don't want to feel that cold again ever---hope yours get fixed soon!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
2 Feb 20
We just call it "central heating". It's a furnace.
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@Tina30219 (81948)
• Onaway, Michigan
31 Jan 20
My morning is good so far sitting here mylotting for a bit. I hope you have heat soon.
@Tina30219 (81948)
• Onaway, Michigan
1 Feb 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum No will do some here soon.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
1 Feb 20
@Tina30219 Ah okay. I am going to read for a few minutes, but then watch some news. I may come back online, not sure yet.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
1 Feb 20
I am not sure how I missed your response here, sorry.
I'm glad you had a good morning. Spent any of today reading?
@rebelann (112873)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Feb 20
How awful, I hope it doesn't get super cold where you are like in some parts of the north east .
@rebelann (112873)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Feb 20
What a bummer @ScribbledAdNauseum Hopefully that part will be installed today.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
1 Feb 20
Well, yesterday it snowed! Just for a little bit. The man said we can use the heat now, but we still have to get a part in the fan replaced.
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@RasmaSandra (79929)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
1 Feb 20
All I can say is keep warm and I hope the heating gets fixed quickly. My day was quietly spent working at my PC
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
1 Feb 20
Thank you. We are able to use the heater without fear now, but there is a part we require that will cost over $1000. When all is said and done, we will have paid about $1200 to the company doing the repairs.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
1 Feb 20
Wrote a discussion about the results of that. Looking at $1000 when all is said and done.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
I keep a fan on in my room year round. My room gets too warm otherwise. I was bundled under several blankets and didn't realize how cold it was until I got up.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@ExplorewtMe Yes, we have plenty of blankets here for that purpose.
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@ExplorewtMe (6332)
• Nairobi, Kenya
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum ha ha . Bundled inside blankets. So that's how you stay worn.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
They will not be here before noon. They are expected between the hours of noon and 2 pm.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
31 Jan 20
@Butterfingers Thank You. We will just have to see. They are usually on time, and sometimes early.
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@Butterfingers (66583)
• India
31 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum ok hope they come as per the schedule
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