Sporadically a quick patch doesn’t maintenance the problem.
I have been trying to prolong the lifespan of our gas gas furnace for years.
Five years ago our Heating & Air Conditioning contractor told me I should upgrade our gas furnace. He told me it was old, worn out & only going to cost me cash, however well what costs me more cash is getting a brand new furnace! I have put our gas furnace on life support time & time again. I think that every fall I need to call for heating service. If I don’t do this step the gas furnace will no way turn on. I need a professional to oil, scrub & lubricate all moving parts. He needs to encourage the gas furnace to heat just one more year. At the end of the heating season I need to call the Heating & Air Conditioning professional back. This is usually a double check to make sure something hasn’t gone wrong with the machine! Everytime I have to make some kind of furnace repair, usually it is something small adore the blower or belt system. My Heating & Air Conditioning professional recently told me that our heat exchanger is totally blown out. I researched how much a new heat exchanger is & I found out it is the same as getting a brand new gas furnace. This is the first time I can’t do a furnace maintenance to make the gas furnace live longer. It would be dumb to upgrade the exchanger. I now am researching new gas gas furnaces & dreading the cost. It is going to hurt. I have spent so much on our outdated gas furnace, I don’t want to buy a new one.