[Baz]

I have natural gas just for my furnace - nothing else. So I get the gas turned off every Spring and then back on every Winter, so I don't get charged a monthly service fee. There's no charge to turn it off but of course there's one to turn it on because they insist on making sure the furnace comes on OK. Every single year - it takes a while because air gets into the line somehow. At some point I would like to add a bleeder so I can bleed it to save some time.

Most of the time the techs who come out are good guys. One year the guy couldn't get it to come on and declared a thermocouple to be bad, so he'd have to come back. 20 minutes after he left I had it going just fine.