We returned home from an overnight visit at a family friend’s place for New Years to discover that our furnace was not working. Once I figured out that the pilot light was going strong, and the furnace made a click sound when the thermostat was moved above or below the current temperature, I decided that something must really be wrong and called the company that had serviced our furnace a few months ago.

From my description, they figure it must be a bad gas valve (which is electromagnetically controlled - thus the clicks I heard). The estimate to fix it is $300 - of course that’s without actually looking at it, so we’ll have to see how that goes. Being that it was the first of January yesterday, there would be an additional $100 fee for a call that day. Considering we live near Vancouver, BC, and the climate here is typically mild, we decided to rough it for a night.

Last night was somewhat chilly, but manageable, and the furnace guy will be coming to work on it tonight at 5pm. So we’ll see how that goes.

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