……………….I found out last Weds. that I needed a new BOILER….so I have been without heat for over a week, and there is only so much hot tea I can drink. I make it more to hold the hot cup rather than drink it!….As you can see from the photos they have to take it out piece by piece. There are five men and three trucks……..Hopefully by Tues. it will be up and running and I will have beautiful HEAT again! The house is large so in turn I need a large boiler….You’ll never guess how much this dam thing costs, and I’m not telling…..but my teeth almost fell out of my mouth when I got the estimate!!! It has to be done or I’ll really freeze! These are things my southern friends don’t have to worry about!…..I have a new appreciation for people who lived during the times when there was no central heat, and they had to depend on fireplaces in each room to keep warm. It also makes sense why rooms were so much smaller, and beds were designed with canopies and drapes hanging on all sides to keep out drafts. Bed warming pans with hot coats were used to get the chill out of the beds, and people slept fully clothed with sleep caps on their heads……I could use one of those now!……It’s a good thing, even though it is very cold, the temperatures haven’t dipped below freezing where I live…..Bring on the glorious heat!
Louis,
Sorry to hear about your buns. LOL! I moved to a smaller home recently. It had the original heat and air (35 years old) and it was working well. My friends thought I was mad, because I had it replaced with a new unit immediately. Everyone said, “wait til it stops working.” I didn’t want to go through what you are experiencing. We have very hot summers and reasonably cold winters and I figured it would probably stop during the hottest or coldest week of the year. It turns out that it was cost effective because the new unit is much more energy efficient. (Cost effective if I live til I’m 100.) However, I figure you can’t put a price tag on being comfortable.
Oh Louis I am so sorry to hear that you’re going through this! But in the South we have the opposite problem. AC goes out and you are absolutely sweltering. Fans don’t cut it in houses made for central AC. We just paid for “new coils” which doesn’t sound like much, but cost thousands to replace. Guess you can’t win when it comes to heating and cooling.