When my central gas furnace broke down, I easily freaked out! I even had the gas furnace tuned up and the heating and air conditioning expert didn’t say that I should expect my system to break down at the worst possible time.
I suppose that’s just the risk you take with using older machines though, the HVAC was going on 11 years afterall.
It wasn’t even covered under warranty anymore, that’s how old it was, but well, I got a few portable space furnaces from my attic, but realized that wasn’t enough! Still, I put them in the basement so that my pipes wouldn’t freeze and I asked a neighbor of mine if he would lend me his space heaters! His central gas furnace was fantastic and he said I could regularly just come hang out at his site. I thought about it and realized it would be more comfortable. I already called the HVAC business and they said it would take a week to get to my home because they were backed up with furnace repair work, but fortunately and I kept those space furnaces running in sections of my home, it would stay hot enough so the pipes wouldn’t freeze, that was my main concern. My neighbor was nice enough to lend me the furnaces along with letting me stay at his place for that duration of time, and eventually I got the call from the furnace expert and he was able to get the furnace working again easily. When I went to give my neighbor the space furnaces back, he told me I could just keep them because he never planned on using them. I told him I would give them back if he ever ended up in an emergency situation like I was in.