I had been complaining about how loud the furnace had been getting.
Every time I heard it turn on, it was like nails on a chalkboard.
My hands would go to my ears, and I flinched with the pain it put me through. My ears were delicate to begin with. I have excellent hearing, and the doctor tells me I hear too much. I can hear a dog whistle, which most people don’t think is possible. The noise from the furnace was getting to affect me like a dog whistle for a dog. The furnace finally got so loud that we had to turn it off. It would have been horrifying turning the furnace off if we didn’t have a fireplace, but we did. We were able to turn the furnace off and still have heat in the house. It wasn’t as warm in the back rooms as it normally would be, but we weren’t going to freeze back there. Instead of pushing the blankets on the floor, we would need them on us. My husband came home that evening and asked why the furnace wasn’t on. When I told him I turned it off, he called the HVAC company. They told him the noise wasn’t in the furnace, but it was whistling through the many holes in the ductwork. He couldn’t believe I heard it, but I did, and now it was going to cost a lot of money to replace the ductwork. He told my husband that if we had caught it a year earlier, they could have repaired the ductwork, but now, it was too rusty to do that.
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