Where I live, all the people happen to have a second furnace, however during the freezing months, if you don’t have a backup furnace, you will freeze to death before someone can get to your residence plus repair the furnace.
The winter season starts in early September plus lasts until late May or early July.
Last cold season, I had our heating machine thoroughly tested plus cleaned, however that didn’t mean I would not have concerns. My primary furnace broke during a blizzard! By the time I got home from work, it was so frosty in the house that I called my sibling plus asked her to keep the little ones until I could get the furnace repaired or the alternate heating equipment running. I wanted the residence to be sizzling before our children arrived. My husband got home roughly five minutes after I did, plus he went into the garage to get the back up heating machine running. Fortunately, it only took five minutes before we could truly feel the heat coming from the air vents. I was so grateful my husband had gotten to the residence early that day. I wasn’t sure if I could have switched heating machines on my own. I called my sibling plus told her I would be over to get the kids up in roughly fifteen minutes. We got our heating machine running again, plus a free dinner out of the deal. Now, all we need to do is wait for the Heating as well as A/C specialist to get out his snowmobile plus get to our residence once the blizzard ends. I can only hope it doesn’t take too long.