December 20th 2021 (Monday)
I called the furnace repair company and left a voicemail to see when to schedule for a repair service this morning. Our reception here is poor so I often get dropped calls and will only know that someone called if they left a voicemail. I got a voicemail from their customer service rep asking me to call her back. I called back and got her voicemail again. Then 10 minutes later, the technician called me and said that he just finished a service nearby and can be here in 5 minutes. 😐
That’s like really short notice but if I don’t accept it, then who knows when they’ll be able to come and repair our furnace, so I had to agree to it. Thank goodness I always keep our townhouse neat and clean, and actually just used my newly purchased robot vacuum to clean our townhouse this morning. 😃
I told the technician that we weren’t considered an urgent case because our thermostat was registering at 67F, but that we had to run multiple space heaters. The technician said to tell HomeSmart next time that our thermostat is registering at 50F so that we’ll be considered an urgent case. It makes sense though, since if we didn’t have space heaters, then our thermostat would have been registering at a much lower temperature.
The technician kindly helped me to test and see if there’s any gas leakages as well especially since I told him that I work from home.
Hopefully, the furnace will be fine now, fingers crossed. 🤞
The owner texted back this morning to say that the replacement washer request has been approved by HomeSmart and he’ll let me know once he receives the approval. Hope that gets taken care of soon, too! 🤞
December 18th 2021 (Saturday)
I noticed when I came home last night that our furnace is once again only blowing cold air, and our temperature is in the teens right now! 🥶
I called HomeSmart to schedule for a repair. I guess there’s many furnaces breaking down now in this extremely cold weather so, whereas last time we were considered to be an urgent case, now only thermostats registering below 60F are considered urgent cases. Our thermostat is registering at 67F so the service technician will only be calling us next Monday to schedule for a service date. 😢
I always try to remain optimistic in life. However, so many crappy things have happened since the end of last month:
Just before the end of November: Our washer started to malfunction (stops in mid-cycle, and not draining the water completely). The technician came to look at it on December 1st and said that he will submit a request for HomeSmart to reimburse our owner with a new washer. I just texted the owner again last night and he still has not received HomeSmart’s approval for the washer replacement yet. So, I’ve been doing multiple re-washes and re-spinning, and just praying and hoping that it’s not going to stop dead completely all of a sudden.
On December 4th: I was hit with a 3-in-1 crappy shocker that: a. My husband’s car got totaled in a car accident (thank goodness he’s okay, knock on wood…). b. He had started drinking again since a year ago. c. He asked me for a divorce.
December 16th (Thursday): I found out that my husband is doing Google searches for “Promise ring princess-cut diamond”, and wonder if he has been seeing someone, besides starting to drink alcohol again since a year ago?
December 17th (Friday): I found out that my husband has been secretly withdrawing huge amounts of money from our bank accounts. I feel so betrayed by him. All these years of his lies and gaslighting just doesn’t seem to stop! I said to him when he came home yesterday, that “Thirteen and a half years, you’d think you’d be more honest with the (divorce) procedure!”.
December 17th (Friday) evening: our furnace stops blowing hot air again.
I returned one of the space heaters after the technician repaired our furnace on November 10th and replaced it with a mini space heater just to put by my working space. But now, I’m going to have to get a bigger one because that mini space heater is overworking and under-delivering. 🥶
Does this ever end??? Sigh….
November 10th, 2021
I didn’t sleep too well last night, kept on waking up throughout the night. Our Daylight Saving Time changed this morning, don’t know if it has anything to do with that?
I had been smelling some kind of faintly weird smell from our furnace for the past 2-3 days on and off. Then, just now I was starting to feel cold, even though I’ve set the thermostat at my usual 69F/70F. I decided to turn it up to 74F and that was when I realized that our furnace has stopped working. Even with the fan on the “On” position, there’s no air coming out of the vents.
I was just starting to wonder if I was getting ill and thus feeling cold. At least now I know that it’s because our furnace has broken down. Thank goodness the weather is actually warming up this week and it’s 49F right now as I’m writing this blog.
Our furnace also broke down last year, in the middle of winter. It was very early in the morning and I was freezing so badly and I was going into hypothermia. I didn’t think there was something wrong with our furnace because there was still air coming out of the vents, so I just assumed that I wasn’t well. It was only around 2-3 hours later that I did more investigation and thinking, and realized that the air coming out of the vents were icy cold, regardless of how high I turn the thermostat setting to.
And of course, as we all know, this is when everyone’s furnace decides to stop working. Thank goodness it was on a weekday, and considered to be an urgent issue so I think I got a call back a few hours later, and it was fixed much later on in the day.
I texted the owner just now and he asked me to call HomeSmart, which I did right away. The agent took down my details and said that a provider should be giving me a call soon, but if I still don’t receive a call by tomorrow morning, then to call back again. Tomorrow morning??? 🥶 I’m just grateful that it’s not freezing right now….. Pray that it’ll get fixed very very soon today, fingers crossed……
- 11/07/21 pm: Technician said that the motherboard needs to be replaced. He’s not sure when it’ll arrive, he’ll give me an update tomorrow. He managed to start the fan while he was there but it stopped after he left. I then tried the central A/C and the fan kicked on again. I texted him to let him know and he said that he still thinks that it’s a problem with the furnace’s motherboard. Thank goodness it’ll be a warm week this week, knock on wood! I went to buy a space heater for my room for now.
- Well, actually, my husband has the fancy expensive Dyson cool/heat fan in his room. I didn’t have since I tend to be on the warm side. They didn’t sell it at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I bought a much cheaper Lasko ceramic space heater and exchanged it with him. He doesn’t know about it yet, but I’ll let him know and thank him when he comes home just now. 😛
- 11/09/21 (Tues):
- A different technician came by and after fumbling for an hour, said that it’s the wrong part. They’ll have to order it and it may take days to arrive. 🙄
- After hearing, I decided to go back to Bed, Bath and Beyond to purchase another space heater for downstairs, since it’s going to get colder and colder throughout the week, and we don’t know when our furnace will get fixed.
- 11/10/21 (Wed):
- I got a call from the furnace repair company at 7.48am saying that they got the correct part and now the technician will arrive between 8am – 12pm. It’s really like very short notice but, hey, I’ll take it!
- The same technician from Sunday came by and said that the technician from yesterday kinda of got confused with how to install the part, that it’s actually the correct part.
- Thank goodness after about an hour, it seems to be fixed now! Fingers crossed!!! 🤞