Last night yet another person came to look at the furnace and confirmed that yes, our furnace is cracked and needs to be replaced and hopefully could get it replaced that evening.
2130:
Got our hopes up again. No furnace because the parts they needed from their warehouse was closed.
Fast forward to this morning. I woke up at 0630, went downstairs, let the dogs out and checked the temperature in the house; a whopping 49 degrees! Now I knew if I exhaled, I could see my breath. Why was the house so cold?? When the sun rose, I found my answer. The grass was white because it had frosted overnight.
The furnace installer came at 0759 and spent the morning installing our NEW FURNACE! We now have heat and the temperature is slowly climbing, I think we're in the 60's now which is like paradise compared to the past 3 days.
In the words of my brother: Welcome to the icanhazwarmz club!
Credit: HR Northwest Photography
Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter. Show all posts
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Start of winter...
So I'm going to try my hand at this blogging thing... I've only had one other blog in my life which was for my wedding on my wedding website since everyone was interested in what I was doing or what I was planning.
The winter has really set in around here, we've had around 4 inches of snow already, which unfortunately has already melted and the temperatures have topped off at 45 degrees max since. The worst part of it all is... We're living with NO furnace and NO fireplace.
Two days ago, I was shivering in my house but I brushed it off to "I'm always cold." While cooking dinner later that evening, I realized that I wasn't getting as warm as I usually would with the stove cranking out heat and the heater going so I went to check the thermostat and it read 59 degrees. I thought to myself: "WOAH!!" I went to the garage and our furnace wasn't working so my plan was to stare at the furnace since I clearly don't know how to function the thing hoping that glaring at it will miraculously make it work. No such luck so I call back up. Seth goes into the garage and tinkers with something which starts the fire in the furnace. Awesome! 10 minutes later, I check the thermostat and it's rising in temperature... Our house is now 60 degrees! An hour later, it's dropped to 57 degrees and the furnace has kicked off again.
Yesterday morning we woke up to the house being a very warm 52 degrees. I felt like we were in the Arctic. If I exhaled I could probably see my breath. My next move before I froze into a solid ice block was to call our landlord and explain the situation. She said that she'd get someone out later in the day. When Seth came home, he asked our neighbor to teach us how to light our gas fireplace. What happened to flipping a light switch and having it turn on like our last place?! Oh wait, I guess that was a luxury. ;) Now we find out our fireplace doesn't work because every time we turned on the gas, the pilot light went out, turn off the gas, the pilot light came on... I think it was taunting us.
One of our landlord's family friends came by and assessed the situation and couldn't help us but called our landlord's husband and told him that we had NO heat. He immediately called us and apologized profusely for not understanding the situation fully, he thought we had heat but it wasn't rising in temperature. One thing I learned in this situation: Communication is KEY. While there was no chance we would have had heat last night, we could have had someone come out earlier in the day if there was no miss communication. He had a ex-furnace installer come out to our house at 2000 who further assessed the situation and it wasn't good news...
Our furnace is cracked and has been leaking carbon monoxide throughout the house. So we contained the leak and thankfully we still have gas since that is what our whole house runs on. He was able to fix our fireplace so now if you sit about 2 inches from it you'll get warm but you risk the chance of lighting yourself on fire. ETA of a fix of the new furnace or getting a new one? Who knows... A couple days hopefully at max but it is heater season here since it is the start of winter.
Thankfully our neighbors had a space heater they lent to us so we wouldn't freeze our butts off!!
I think Sumi has portrayed our situation the best:
Taken 02 Dec 2010
Until next time... Stay warm everyone, winter is here!!
The winter has really set in around here, we've had around 4 inches of snow already, which unfortunately has already melted and the temperatures have topped off at 45 degrees max since. The worst part of it all is... We're living with NO furnace and NO fireplace.
Two days ago, I was shivering in my house but I brushed it off to "I'm always cold." While cooking dinner later that evening, I realized that I wasn't getting as warm as I usually would with the stove cranking out heat and the heater going so I went to check the thermostat and it read 59 degrees. I thought to myself: "WOAH!!" I went to the garage and our furnace wasn't working so my plan was to stare at the furnace since I clearly don't know how to function the thing hoping that glaring at it will miraculously make it work. No such luck so I call back up. Seth goes into the garage and tinkers with something which starts the fire in the furnace. Awesome! 10 minutes later, I check the thermostat and it's rising in temperature... Our house is now 60 degrees! An hour later, it's dropped to 57 degrees and the furnace has kicked off again.
Yesterday morning we woke up to the house being a very warm 52 degrees. I felt like we were in the Arctic. If I exhaled I could probably see my breath. My next move before I froze into a solid ice block was to call our landlord and explain the situation. She said that she'd get someone out later in the day. When Seth came home, he asked our neighbor to teach us how to light our gas fireplace. What happened to flipping a light switch and having it turn on like our last place?! Oh wait, I guess that was a luxury. ;) Now we find out our fireplace doesn't work because every time we turned on the gas, the pilot light went out, turn off the gas, the pilot light came on... I think it was taunting us.
One of our landlord's family friends came by and assessed the situation and couldn't help us but called our landlord's husband and told him that we had NO heat. He immediately called us and apologized profusely for not understanding the situation fully, he thought we had heat but it wasn't rising in temperature. One thing I learned in this situation: Communication is KEY. While there was no chance we would have had heat last night, we could have had someone come out earlier in the day if there was no miss communication. He had a ex-furnace installer come out to our house at 2000 who further assessed the situation and it wasn't good news...
Our furnace is cracked and has been leaking carbon monoxide throughout the house. So we contained the leak and thankfully we still have gas since that is what our whole house runs on. He was able to fix our fireplace so now if you sit about 2 inches from it you'll get warm but you risk the chance of lighting yourself on fire. ETA of a fix of the new furnace or getting a new one? Who knows... A couple days hopefully at max but it is heater season here since it is the start of winter.
Thankfully our neighbors had a space heater they lent to us so we wouldn't freeze our butts off!!
I think Sumi has portrayed our situation the best:
Until next time... Stay warm everyone, winter is here!!
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