Emergency Home Repairs – Who Do You Call?

Winter has already set in here in the North East, U.S. and so far this season it has been pretty rough for us. Just last week we got hit with a 2-day freezing rain, sleet and ice event that knocked down several trees on our property. On top of that, we lost phone service and electricity for 7 hours. Brrr…it got pretty cold in here that day!

A few days ago I woke up at 5 AM and was freezing my butt off. Seriously, I was so cold that I wrapped myself up in my bed quilt and hobbled to the thermostat. It stated that it was 49 degrees in here and I thought to myself…how is that possible? We have the heat on!

I proceeded to get my husband out of bed and he headed down to the basement to look at the furnace. Low and Behold…the furnace was not working! Seriously, we have no clue on when it stopped but we are assuming that it was hours before I woke up and noticed that we didn’t have any heat in our home.

So, Who do you call when you have emergency home repairs? Are any of you HomeServe USA Fans? Have any of you used that company for your emergency home repairs? I would love to know.

Anyway, it took a few hours but we finally got our furnace fixed and it took several additional hours for our house to heat up again. I was miserable to say the least! I do know this…next time around we will be prepared and will call a company to come out right away to make our home repairs!