The joys of homeownership
Aug. 12th, 2004 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33Ants: higher invasion number yesterday than the day before, resulting in an escalated Misto attack & strategic (re)caulking. We'll see what the afternoon hours bring today, they're at their worst between 3-6.
Furnace: Thank God I got off my ass and finally scheduled an inspection for today with the off-season discount rate. After being told in 2000 to not bother with yearly inspections because it was in primo shape, I then managed to forget about scheduling one in 2002 (as recommended) or last year.
The housing on a inside component was leaking water dangerously close to the 120V circuit board. I'm a bit concerned by the fact that the first guy who came out to do the inspection didn't catch this, he called out a second guy because he was concerned about what was causing it to not vent outside properly (second & unrelated issue). The 2nd guy immediately pointed out the leaking water/circuit board issue & nonchalantly pointed out the chain reaction of destruction that would result when it fried before even going outside to check out the venting issue.
I don't think we would have all dropped dead of carbon monoxide poisoning from the venting issue, but it creeped me out nonetheless & we're going back to yearly inspections for certain now. That issue was apparently due to accumulated dirt & general gunk, it was bad enough that they thought a dead rodent was in the pipe but thankfully that wasn't the case.
Many cheers to PSE for not charging for the furnace/hot water heater inspection at all & keeping the bill (spread out over 3 months) to parts and two hours of labor. They were there between 10:30 to a little after 2:30, with repair work started around noon. We feared the damage would be worse than it was since two men were working on it for so long, but even so it's still better than the cost of replacing the furnace in the middle of winter when we need it the most.
In other news we had so much fun seeing They Might Be Giants at the zoo last night, but that's a post for later.
Furnace: Thank God I got off my ass and finally scheduled an inspection for today with the off-season discount rate. After being told in 2000 to not bother with yearly inspections because it was in primo shape, I then managed to forget about scheduling one in 2002 (as recommended) or last year.
The housing on a inside component was leaking water dangerously close to the 120V circuit board. I'm a bit concerned by the fact that the first guy who came out to do the inspection didn't catch this, he called out a second guy because he was concerned about what was causing it to not vent outside properly (second & unrelated issue). The 2nd guy immediately pointed out the leaking water/circuit board issue & nonchalantly pointed out the chain reaction of destruction that would result when it fried before even going outside to check out the venting issue.
I don't think we would have all dropped dead of carbon monoxide poisoning from the venting issue, but it creeped me out nonetheless & we're going back to yearly inspections for certain now. That issue was apparently due to accumulated dirt & general gunk, it was bad enough that they thought a dead rodent was in the pipe but thankfully that wasn't the case.
Many cheers to PSE for not charging for the furnace/hot water heater inspection at all & keeping the bill (spread out over 3 months) to parts and two hours of labor. They were there between 10:30 to a little after 2:30, with repair work started around noon. We feared the damage would be worse than it was since two men were working on it for so long, but even so it's still better than the cost of replacing the furnace in the middle of winter when we need it the most.
In other news we had so much fun seeing They Might Be Giants at the zoo last night, but that's a post for later.
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Date: 2004-08-12 09:57 pm (UTC)Thank you for that lovely image to haunt my dreams, just when we were celebrating that not a single ant has appeared in the Chili Slime o' Death today :P