In my house, the heater basically stops working every year and my dad put some like “bandaid” solution over it with manipulating some wiring, idk what they do. But like, every year, the heater would stop working like several times throughout the winter and constanly needs to be fixed. But this year it just stopped working completely. Like I google it and those heaters are like $2000 to $2500 brand new, so yea, I get it, parents want to save money, but like, having the heat stop few times a year feels like living in a developing country tbh 😓. So now I’m basically just relying on those portable heater things to stay warm, and my cat is feeling too cold so she’s staying in bedrooms most of the time because its where the portable heaters are at, when she normally just wanders the entire house.
It’s normal for mine, but mine is old and in need of replacing (25 year old, but life expectancy averages 15-20 years). Basically something needs to be replaced every year, but I’m the only one living here and I can generally fix it myself (and I have separate heating in my family room so I don’t just lose all heat). I’ve been trying to save up for a replacement but the prices are obscene and we’re probably about to lose federal incentives so it’s just getting harder to afford.
Interesting turn this year where I hired someone instead of doing it myself. It was actually cheap, and something I wouldn’t have thought of