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Most normal furnaces either work or they don't. If they don't, you get a repair man in and then it's working again. Our furnace says pooh-pooh to that boring notion. It won't be so easily pigeon-holed.

The problem with our furnace is that the electronic pilot light fails to start on occasions. But the real problem is that there is no rhyme or reason as to why it fails to light. Nearly every night, while we sleep, it will fail to start at some point in the small hours. What makes this so bad is that if it fails to light once then the furnace basically shuts down and does not try to relight again.

This means we - actually Kim and Holly mostly - wake up each morning to a cold house. We can go to the thermostat, turn it off and then on again, and the furnace usually start up again. Then it works fine for the rest of the day until nighttime comes around again.

Now it didn't always fail this way. At the start it would fail randomly all the time. After two repair man visits and a replaced starter it has settled in to this aggravating routine. Now the repairman cannot duplicate the problem while he is there so he doesn't know how to fix it.

Probably time to buy a new one. But first I have to talk to our home warranty service to see if they have any answers. They are contractually obliged to fix it. Of course I'm sure there is some small print that lets them off the hook. Bah! Lawyers and goofy furnaces! I need Harry Tuttle on the scene.