Wow did we get nailed with snow last night!
We woke up at around 1200 to the sound of loud hail hitting the roof. When we woke at 0600, there was 12 inches of snow on top of the already 12-15 inches of snow that had fallen earlier. The snow was not the light fluffy snow, but the wet heavy snow also.
We started clearing our driveway at around 0700. I have a pretty large snow blower, but we live on a hill therefore everyone has to follow me to get what the blower left behind. This way we can make it up the hill. It's still pretty tough. Especially with my truck which is just a two wheel drive.
After taking care of our drive way, we hit the back deck. We have two french doors that lead to the outside deck, and anyone that has these types of doors would tell you; if you don't clean the snow away in the winter, in the spring you'll be replacing the wood rot. They are nice doors and well made, but I don't want to take my chances.
Next I decided to go shovel my father in law out. Well after loading the snow blower in the back of the truck, I got stuck in a snow bank in the driveway. Don't ask how, but it took hours to get out.
So now its about 1300, I need some Excedrin. Hailee wants to go out tonight to eat for her birthday (Chinese buffet). We are supposed to have girl scouts and I have physical therapy at 1700.
This was supposed to be a day off due to the snow?
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Friday, January 21, 2011
Sick day and Furnace
Well-
I wasn't feeling well yesterday, so I had to take a sick day.
However, since I'm a father and a homeowner, my day of rest and relaxing to get better was filled with furnace mishaps. On Wednesday I had to move some plumbing on the furnace. I have an oil furnace with three circulating pumps. Two of them are going to two different air handlers for the forced hot air (one in the basement, the other in the attic) and the third pump goes to the hot water tank.
So I had to move the return and supply going to the basement air handler, no big deal. I used CPVC and shark bite fittings. Took me about 20 minutes.
After wards I pressurized the system back to 15 psi (or so I thought).
The next morning when I woke- no heat and no hot water.
Turns out that the gauge on the furnace was broke and stuck at 15 psi. The filling valve that I was using to pressurize the system was stuck closed. So needless to say, I was never pressurizing anything! There was a little bit of fluid in the system, so the no water sensor never went off.
OH and to add to the fun, the supply going to the air handler in the attic froze. Luckily they used the old PEX piping so the pipes didn't break all it took was a space heater to thaw (I know Antone- not de-thaw. I had to get it correct since you are the only one who reads these) then every thing worked fine.
A word to the wise, if your heating system requires antifreeze, you should insulate your attic more. The attic in this house has R-30 everywhere including the attic floor. But not in the attic eves which I've been slowly insulating with the air baffles. I guess I should have done that sooner.
I wasn't feeling well yesterday, so I had to take a sick day.
However, since I'm a father and a homeowner, my day of rest and relaxing to get better was filled with furnace mishaps. On Wednesday I had to move some plumbing on the furnace. I have an oil furnace with three circulating pumps. Two of them are going to two different air handlers for the forced hot air (one in the basement, the other in the attic) and the third pump goes to the hot water tank.
So I had to move the return and supply going to the basement air handler, no big deal. I used CPVC and shark bite fittings. Took me about 20 minutes.
After wards I pressurized the system back to 15 psi (or so I thought).
The next morning when I woke- no heat and no hot water.
Turns out that the gauge on the furnace was broke and stuck at 15 psi. The filling valve that I was using to pressurize the system was stuck closed. So needless to say, I was never pressurizing anything! There was a little bit of fluid in the system, so the no water sensor never went off.
OH and to add to the fun, the supply going to the air handler in the attic froze. Luckily they used the old PEX piping so the pipes didn't break all it took was a space heater to thaw (I know Antone- not de-thaw. I had to get it correct since you are the only one who reads these) then every thing worked fine.
A word to the wise, if your heating system requires antifreeze, you should insulate your attic more. The attic in this house has R-30 everywhere including the attic floor. But not in the attic eves which I've been slowly insulating with the air baffles. I guess I should have done that sooner.
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