{"id":204,"date":"2009-02-19T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T16:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2009-02-26T00:21:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T04:21:36","slug":"im-calling-bs-trane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"I’m Calling “BS” Trane!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in October I was forced<\/a> to replace my furnace.\u00c2\u00a0 My insurance was awesome about the entire thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Love them<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 They went after The Stupid Company’s insurance and must have done pretty well because I got 60% of my deductible back.\u00c2\u00a0 I got a newsletter from The Stupid Company.\u00c2\u00a0 It has the president’s name on it.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m guessing I can find an email address or phone number and have a little chat with him.\u00c2\u00a0 At the very least, I’d like a refund on the service I paid for.\u00c2\u00a0 Heh… that might just be fun.<\/p>\n

Anyway… to my point.\u00c2\u00a0 The Trane salesman, as nice as he was, made some big promises.\u00c2\u00a0 He sold me on the\u00c2\u00a0 Trane XV80 – two-stage, variable speed fan, whizbang whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m pretty sure he claimed that move to that one (I was only looking at the 80% ones anyway) would save me like 30% on my utility bills.\u00c2\u00a0 I was pretty sure it wasn’t going to save me that<\/em> much, but 15% would be nice.\u00c2\u00a0 I can’t speak for the savings on the electric because I haven’t been paying much attention and that’s harder to call.\u00c2\u00a0 But the gas savings has been nonexistent<\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, I think it increased a little.
\n2\/08 – CCFs: 99 – Heating Degree Days: 1194 – Days in Billing Cycle: 32
\n2\/09 – CCFs: 102 – Heating Degree Days: 1190 – Days in Billing Cycle: 29
\nSo the weather was about the same, and I actually used a little more gas in a couple less days.\u00c2\u00a0 Not complaining, it’s a perfectly fine system… just proof that companies throw around statistics and promises that don’t really mean anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that we’re surprised, right?<\/p>\n

Still need to cover the $85 headlight change, new roaster… never put up the ‘after’ pictures of the landscaping.<\/p>\n

Ignore this part… just trying something.\u00c2\u00a0 New Comfort Heating and Cooling New Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in October I was forced to replace my furnace.\u00c2\u00a0 My insurance was awesome about the entire thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Love them.\u00c2\u00a0 They went after The Stupid Company’s insurance and must have done pretty well because I got 60% of my deductible … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","category-rants","tag-furnace","tag-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildbluesky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}