by pa_friendly_guy » Thu Feb 02, 2012 2:05 pm
That is a very good point eeldip, many forms of heat requier maintanance. I know that I expect an electric space heater to last forever because I have one that has. They are very reliable and have few if any moving parts. But my oil furnace I pay to maintain every year, and it costs alot for them to tell me it is working fine. If there were a small cost to keep an electric heater working well I don't think it would cost as much as the oil heater. We have a mental threshold for costs, in our heads. If something goes over that amount we feel it is very expensive. We expect electric heaters to run maintanace free for years, so a $10 repair bill would be outragous. But if a repaiman charged us $50 to come out and service the oil burner, even though he found nothing wrong, we would think it was a bargan. It has nothing to do about actual costs, it has to do with our mind set and our expectations.
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