I regularly try to fix everything at my house myself because I don’t love having to pay for heater repair, a/c repair, or appliance repairs when it’s something that I could do myself.
I watch a lot of videos online, and I also call my Mom for help occasionally, and a lot of times, she is able to walk me through furnace repairs right over the phone. She used to be an heating and A/C worker and so she really knows her stuff. I suppose I know more about heating and cooling systems than the average person, just because I used to go out on heater and a/c upgrade calls with my Mom back when I was a kid. But occasionally, this just doesn’t work, one afternoon, my furnace went on the blink and I couldn’t find a video to help me out. I called my Mom and no matter what I tried, neither of us just couldn’t get the darn furnace to fire back up again. I was annoyed at the furnace by this time and I realize I must have used my wrench on it with a little too much force. To make a long story short, I ended up tearing my furnace up even worse than it would have been to start with. I hung up with my Mom and had to call one of the local HVAC businesses to come out and do the furnace repair work for me. I had to pay a small fortune for the furnace repair work, so I’m hoping that next time I’ll be able to fix it myself or with Mom’s help.