How many years did we have this conversation in January or February:
"Wouldn't it be nice to burn wood in our fireplace? Let's look into lining the chimney properly and setting that up!"
"Yes, and we could update the furnace at the same time, because we have to vent this and that and blah blah, we'll look into it, come May!"
And how many summers ended with one like this:
"Oh, I guess we missed the boat on that fireplace/furnace renovation plan."
"Ha, ha, let's just hope the thing lasts us another winter!"
Ha ha ha. This year our luck ran out. Bad news is our furnace is so old that popping in a new motor is not feasible; good news is we can install a fancy-pants, new, efficient furnace with a high-tech blowy fan thing without getting into the whole chimney issue. Bad news is it will cost us a bit of money; good news is we won't all freeze. Bad news: not today; good news: tomorrow.
More good news: I caught my friend and neighbour before she went to work this morning and got her house key, so now that the guy has come and done his sorting and measuring and checking, I am off to sit in her comfy chair and knit. (I was washing dishes to keep my hands warm, but there's only so much of that to do!)
You could get a whole system going to heat your house. First you could say, bake something to heat the house, then you could eat the warn food, then you could do dishes to warm up. Like a never ending cycle of baking, and dishes, could be worse. . .
ReplyDelete(But I am a wierd-oh, who loves to do dishes)
well booo on your furnace giving out,
ReplyDeletebut yay on a new efficient furnace!!