the furnace, and the $6,000 sitting next to it
· Bellevue Dispatch, issue 3 · All Bellevue news
The first genuinely cold week is usually the one that finds the problem, and the week everyone calls at once. Two things worth doing before then. First, run the heat for twenty minutes now rather than in November: a new filter, a listen for anything that grinds or shudders, and a look at the vents. A service call booked in early October is a different experience from one booked on the first freezing night.
Second, if the furnace is near the end and you are pricing a replacement, price the heat pump too. Energy Smart Eastside, the joint program run by Bellevue and five neighboring cities, applies a $1,000 rebate at the point of sale on qualifying ducted or ductless heat pumps installed by an approved contractor, and households under 150% of King County's area median income can add a $5,000 bonus rebate on a fully electric system with no furnace backup — up to $6,000 off, taken off the project cost rather than mailed back later. The program passed its thousandth Eastside installation in June. City page · Rebates
That's the week. Reply with anything you want tracked in Bellevue, and if a neighbor would read it, forward it. Next Thursday: what the Spring District meeting produced, and the first look at the council's October budget deliberations.
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