• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    My wife and I are on our third fridge in 35 years. But the furnace in her mom’s house when we sold it 5 years ago had been running since the late 1970s.

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      25 days ago

      Except furnaces functionally shut off when not actively making heat. A fridge potentially is only off for power outages or a cleaning

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        25 days ago

        Don’t fridges do the same thing? Once it gets the interior to the set temperature, the compressor turns off until the sensors say it needs more cold.

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        30 years is a long life for a furnace. This thing was 45-50 and still running fine. The last maintenance note on the sheet on the inside was in the 80s lol.