In the category of "Uh oh, but it could have been worse"

[drwex]

Our furnace died last night. No heat, coldest night in a while. Yippee! Emergency repair got it working so we had heat through the night but there's no guarantee it will hold out. So I won't be leaving the house unattended until we know it's working properly. Which means missing an as-yet-unknown amount of what I was supposed to be doing this weekend.

Joy to the world.

On the plus side, at least it crapped out LAST night. Had it crapped out while we were away we might well have come home to burst water pipes and the associated mess.

ETA: 16 hours, $360 later it's fixed. I'll stop panicking any moment now.

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

that happened to us 4ish years ago, frozen pipes upstairs

[unseelie.livejournal.com]

so glad.
so lucky.

Do you recall - something like 12 years ago? When the pipes burst in the apparent above mine? We had scalding hot water flooding my apartment - sunday. 10am. January 3d. sucktastic.

you get to go to the con!
YAY!

[chienne-folle.livejournal.com]

Glad they got it fixed before the weekend!

My father-in-law went out of town, the furnace failed while he was away, the pipes burst, and when he came home, the house had been sitting in a foot of water for a week.

The had to gut the house down to the studs.

His insurance didn't cover water damage, and the house was unsaleable. It was a total loss.

So, hey, you have a GOOD furnace-failing story!