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Post by Leda EmBorr on Feb 28, 2007 0:53:48 GMT -5
There no cold day that cannot be thwarted with a a cup of hot coco, an electric blanket and the entire saga on DVD! =) ...unless the power goes out.... |
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Post by kivaanzion on Feb 28, 2007 8:14:24 GMT -5
... unless the power goes out.... Yeah I think I'd be lighting a fire in my family room if that happened.  |
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Post by kivaanzion on Mar 4, 2007 5:12:15 GMT -5
Well this morning at 3:30am I woke up to the sound of the furnace going snakey (I fell asleep on the couch in the basement last night)! It sounded like a cyclone was happening inside the fan basin!  I took the cover off to find that water was spraying out everywhere! This was one of my worst fears- that the water would get into the fan system and short out the electrical motor (possibly starting an electrical fire). Water had collected in the fan basin, however it had not gotten into anything having to do with the motor/electrics. I was still scared to death that the water would wreck the furnace somehow, so I devised a plan to siphon the water out. I connected a bunch of straws together hoping to suck the water out (this is half asleep at 4am). Well... it never really worked. I couldn't suck the water out (although I did manage to get some oily tasting water in my mouth   ) as the straws kept bending to the point that they would break/come apart/have air gaps etc. I even tried wrapping the straws in masking tape to seal the connections- again the straws would bend and not be able to do their job.  Basically I came to the conclusion that I would not be able to run the furnace until it was fixed (I was also half convinced it was ruined at this point- with a new furnace costing $3200.00). Fortunately, leaving it off all this time allowed the water to drain slightly. I turned the fan on without the hot water tap open (which supplies hot water to the heating coil). Eventually all the water within the basin was blown out by the fan. The whole thing seems fine now. This all happened because I had not adhered to my rule of only running the furnace for a couple of hours before stopping it and bailing out the water. Needless to say it scared the kaa-kaa out of me. It's 5am now, and I'm still wide awake. |
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Mar 5, 2007 9:58:34 GMT -5
At least it was Sunday, right?
My furnace has a very slow leak. Luckily, it's so slow that the water evaporates from the warm surface. Last year we discovered it because there wasn't enough water in the pipes to circulate around all the baseboards in the house. We just filled up the system again, but we have to keep watch on it.
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Post by kivaanzion on Mar 5, 2007 18:43:27 GMT -5
Yeah, at least it was Sunday.  Tonight we are supposed to have the lowest temperatures of all the winter season: windchills of -30 to -35C (-22/-31F)! BRRRRRR!!!! |
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Mar 5, 2007 21:25:38 GMT -5
Oooo... brrrr.....
Yeah we've got that Alberta Clipper making its way down here... but it's not as cold as that!!
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Post by J'aii-Gun Jiinn on Mar 5, 2007 21:27:04 GMT -5
Is the furnace still acting up? How can you stand it? Being that cold  |
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Post by kivaanzion on Mar 5, 2007 22:31:46 GMT -5
Is the furnace still acting up? How can you stand it? Being that cold I can run the furnace for a couple of hours at a time, and then have to turn it off to bail out the water. We can't leave the furnace running unattended so we have to leave it off when we go to bed or work. The house is coldest when we get up in the morning, or come home from work. The lowest the house has gone down to is 14C (57F)... so far.  I haven't needed an alarm clock lately- I just wake up shivering from the cold. I'm going to call the service department again tomorrow- they are supposed to call us when the part arrives to arrange a date to install it, but I don't really trust them to call us right away. |
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Post by kivaanzion on Mar 10, 2007 0:31:53 GMT -5
Well this nightmare is finally over- my furnace is fixed!! ;D Took two guys working on it about three hours to install the part this morning. To the tune of $1439.14.ouch. It had to go on my wife's credit card. We'll just have to tighten our belts until it's paid off. But at least the heat is constantly on. With no water to bail out. Heat!! O' glorious Heat!! ;D |
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Mar 10, 2007 0:47:43 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Cheers![/glow]
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Post by Cara Drume on Mar 12, 2007 8:38:37 GMT -5
WOO! All right! At least you don't have to ch nage your name to Noah and start building a boat... |
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Post by J'aii-Gun Jiinn on Mar 12, 2007 20:02:02 GMT -5
;D YAy!Ki Vaan Finally has HEAT!!,But the price Ouch! You might want backup plan if this happens again,Let's pray not that it does! |
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Post by I Five on Apr 6, 2007 8:51:45 GMT -5
Dang it...10 days ago it was 81 here in Minnesota. Now today it's highs in the teens with a wind chill in the single digits!!!! I want summer...give me my 80's back!!!!!! |
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Post by Theyrenotdolls (Den Dragonson) on Apr 6, 2007 9:49:02 GMT -5
heh...went from perfect sunny 70 here in cincy to 20's overnigt.... still learning to deal with this cold weather. i dont know if my parents (in Louisiana) even had to start up their heaters this year.
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Post by I Five on Apr 6, 2007 16:20:50 GMT -5
At least it's not just here that the weather is so strange...I just don't get why we're having this wacky weather!!!
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) as the straws kept bending to the point that they would break/come apart/have air gaps etc.
