On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:58:21 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:


"mm" wrote
My next door neibhor also has original AC and furance from 31 years
ago, and I believe all the families who lived there used their AC a
lot. Carrier, fwiw. Though that's not the brand they're replacing it
with. She's keeping her furnace.


She is not very smart. In five years she'll be paying a lot extra to have
an inefficient furnace replaced. Easier to to it all now.

Yeah, she didn't ask my advice. I may have overdone it with the
advice on plugging her basement sink, so that when the stream floods,
her basement won't. The lowest 4 townhouses in my n'hood have this
problem, especially mine and hers, which are lower than the next two.

I'll bet she didn't do it, because it's hard to worry about something
she's never seen that even I say might not happen for 5 years
(although on average it's once ever two years).

She's a school teacher and just bought the house, started with a
roommate, whom I never see anymore**, so maybe she's paying the
mortgage alone.

**Of course I see her only once every several months, and I know she's
there.