Praise for Two Furnaces

I had never heard of having multiple air conditioners or furnaces before moving here. It is rather nice because you can more easily adjust the temperatures on the two levels of the house...forcing them to work less since one unit isn't working the whole house. Here is another perk...our upstairs furnace went out a couple of days ago. We're not exactly sure when because the heat from downstairs has been traveling up and the last week has been pretty warm. So warm that I've turned the heat off during the day. It's been cooler upstairs than downstairs but not enough to think that there was something wrong. The master bedroom seems to be the only one that is actually cold...we threw another comforter on the bed and that helps. Not wanting to pay extra fees for someone to come out on a weekend, we simply kick the heat downstairs a little higher at night. If worse came to worse, we would blow up the air mattresses and let the kids have a "campout" in the family room but it doesn't look like we are going to have to do that. I wonder if they'll charge extra to come out tomorrow since it's President's Day.