Re: [UC] Furnace Woes again

[Krfapt]

To Ed and others:   This may not help for now, but it's for future reference.   All reliable oil companies offer an annual service contract. It should be for about $100. It covers the parts and labor for most repairs during the course of the year, and also gives you a priority on their people during crunches. If your oil supplier doesn't offer this, use someone else next year. If your oil supplier offers it and you paid for it but the firm but doesn't meet the obligations, use someone else next year. If it's offered and you didn't buy it, you made a mistake. (The service includes an annual clean-out and inspection, by the way. Very important).   Some biggies, by the way, have a very poor record of responding to calls. The small-to-medium sized firms tend to be best.   Also, if you're shopping next year, look for someone who will give you a fixed price contract. You may lose on this if the oil price goes down. But, this has only ahppened once in the past four or five years -- and it dropped by less than a dime a gallon when it did. On the other hand, look how much it went up last year.   Al Krigman