In my house, the heater basically stops working every year and my dad put some like “bandaid” solution over it with manipulating some wiring, idk what they do. But like, every year, the heater would stop working like several times throughout the winter and constanly needs to be fixed. But this year it just stopped working completely. Like I google it and those heaters are like $2000 to $2500 brand new, so yea, I get it, parents want to save money, but like, having the heat stop few times a year feels like living in a developing country tbh 😓. So now I’m basically just relying on those portable heater things to stay warm, and my cat is feeling too cold so she’s staying in bedrooms most of the time because its where the portable heaters are at, when she normally just wanders the entire house.
So I would say no, except over the last 4-5 years, without fail, every winter we would run into furnace issues that it first were kind of an easy quick fix and just kind of a pain but then over time got to the point where even after replacing relays and a few other parts it still wasn’t operating properly, and finally died on us. We had a home warranty at first, and they would send out someone who would get it working for maybe another 3-6 months but after 3 years we got rid of it because they refused to ever actually replace anything. Finally on the 4th winter, the furnace went and never came back. Ended up replacing the HVAC units and upgrading a bit, and it’s been great. Even with higher utility prices we’re paying significantly less on electrical and gas bills and no issues.