Sentence examples for broken furnace from inspiring English sources

Our neighbors are nice people and very handy: they've generously helped us with our clogged sinks and broken furnace.

Officials made no progress today in determining why the bodies had not been cremated, and clung to their theory that the Marsh family, which owns Tri-State, could not afford to fix the broken furnace.

Remember: they can't cut your hair in China, clean your teeth in India, or fix your broken furnace overseas, which makes these some of the most secure jobs in the current economy.

Some repairs are vital (replacing broken furnaces, pipes, leaky roofs), others cosmetic (paint, new countertops and cabinets, cheap landscaping).

Plaster was falling, windows were broken, the furnace was ancient, and an ominous pool of water stood in the basement.

He has said only that his furnace was broken.

Because the furnace was broken and the water had been left on, every pipe in the house had burst, and the toilets were all cracked.

The bad news is my furnace is broken and I've had a friend working on it for the past month but it still isn't fixed.

(To use a household analogy, in the former case the furnace is broken so no heat is produced; in the latter case the thermostat is broken so the signal to turn off heat production is not given, and the room overheats. In both cases the system is broken, but the effects on steady state room temperature are opposite).

If cleaning your flame sensor did not work, it's possible that the sensor is broken and that the furnace is operating as it should.

Paint is peeling off the walls, the ceiling is falling down, windows and shades are broken, as well as furnaces and air-conditioners.