Thanks for the comment! My husband and I have talked about home warranty programs, but I’ve always wondered whether or not they are actually worth the money. Actually that would be a great topic to research. If you pay $34 a month, that amounts to $408 a year. I wonder how much the average repair costs per year and whether or not you really save money taking this approach. In our case the furnace fix was just over $200, so if nothing else breaks in the house we would still be better off without the home warranty service, but if you require a major repair you certainly make out better. I should look into this more. Thanks for the suggestion.

One thing you might try is enrolling in a home protection or home warranty program. We pay Service One a monthly fee of $34 and if something goes wrong they will come out and fix it for only $25. They were going to fix our furnace but it needed replaced, they only cover fixing it, and they did $350 worth of work on our dryer a few months back. All we had to pay is the monthly fee and the $25 to have them come out.

The quotes for a new furnace were free, but no one would agree to repair it without a hefty ‘first hour evaluation’ charge. I sure hope we make it through the winter too!

When we needed a new furnace, everyone came and gave us free quotes. But we weren’t looking for someone to fix it. Of course there wasn’t anything wrong with it other than it was old, so our insurance wouldn’t insure our house, but that’s another story.

I hope you make it through the winter on your new part.