Silentpoet Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Woke up to the furnace not working. According to the meat thermometer it was 52 in the kitchen. I just checked and it is now a balmy 53.3 degrees. So I arrange to have my cousin come look at the hvac and settle down under a blanket. I decided to break out my back up mr buddy heater. For a few minutes it runs ok. Then suddenly I hear something pop and it tries to catch on fire. I manage to get it out of the house without damaging anything else. It only looks to be minor damage to it. But the burnt plastic smell lingers a bit in the house. Hopefully my cousin will get here soon and it will be something simple like a pilot light gone out. Oh, also still supposed to work this evening if I can get this fixed. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 I just put another log on the fire. Toasty warm here in The Greatland. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 BTW, you might be using your 'meat thermometer' wrong if it isn't reading 98.6 and high humidity. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 52° is t-shirt weather. Last weekend, I was doing laundry late at night while in a massive rush to pack for the week (very early flight). The basement tub overflowed. Of course. I usually keep an eye on it and stop it if it gets close to the top. Missed it. A flood. I spent way too much time shop-vaccing it up. The water level in the tub usually goes down pretty quick, it was plugged big, this time. I ended up getting the garden hose and wasting way too much time blasting it into the basement orifices. I guess it finally blew it through and the water started going down. Laundry resumed. As I was putting the vac hose away, it started spilling water on the floor. So I jerked that end up over my head. And put my hand right into a fan on the ceiling. A 1' box van, with metal blades, that I use just to move air around. BRRRRRT!!!! It hurt like bigly. And started a massive bloodfest. It looked like my knuckles had been hit by a boat's propeller. I made the flight, without being able to much use my one hand at all. The cuts are healing, but my index finger knuckle is still massively swollen. (and I think that played a part in losing my wallet in my coveralls, because I couldn't get that hand into any pockets) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 So it is a part that hopefully is in stock monday. Right now I have one borrowed propane heater and three electric(1500 watt) heaters going. I stopped by walmart after work and bought the 3 electric heaters and a carbon monoxide detector. The detector is set up on the counter next to the propane heater. The electric ones are plugged into 2 outlets and one surge protector/power strip with a thick cord. I may pull out my spare comforter for my bed. Going to turn off the propane heater when I go to bed. Supposed to get down to 19 outside. The electric heater in the kitchen has already raised the temperature by 5 degrees or so. I really can't do much more than this tonight. Hopefully I don't freeze to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 The last thing you do, before you freeze to death, is start taking your clothes off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted November 20, 2022 Administrators Share Posted November 20, 2022 28 minutes ago, Silentpoet said: So it is a part that hopefully is in stock monday. Right now I have one borrowed propane heater and three electric(1500 watt) heaters going. I stopped by walmart after work and bought the 3 electric heaters and a carbon monoxide detector. The detector is set up on the counter next to the propane heater. The electric ones are plugged into 2 outlets and one surge protector/power strip with a thick cord. I may pull out my spare comforter for my bed. Going to turn off the propane heater when I go to bed. Supposed to get down to 19 outside. The electric heater in the kitchen has already raised the temperature by 5 degrees or so. I really can't do much more than this tonight. Hopefully I don't freeze to death. The best, and I think safest, electric space heaters I have found are those oil-filled radiator heaters, that look like old steam radiators. Stuff won’t burst into flame if it is too close and they put off a lot of heat. Good luck with the heater problems and remember, if you start a fire for a man, he is warm for a few hours. If you start a man on fire though, he is warm for the rest of his life. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 Just now, Eric said: The best, and I think safest, electric space heaters I have found are those oil-filled radiator heaters, that look like old steam radiators. Stuff won’t burst into flame if it is too close and they put off a lot of heat. Good luck with the heater problems and remember, if you start a fire for a man, he is warm for a few hours. If you start a man on fire though, he is warm for the rest of his life. I think that is the type another cousin has, going to borrow it tomorrow. But Walmart didn't have any of those and it was the only place open when I got off work. The ones I bought have tilt sensors, it kicks it off at only a few degrees of tilt. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 The little radiant (catalytic?) tent-heaters, that go on a 1lb propane tank (or 20 lb), produce crazy-too-much heat. You don't want it in your tent. Might need the CO monitor. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 I've got a 60's era, 500w halogen floor lamp. It keeps the basement tolerable all winter. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 If I have the floor-lamp on, and hit the button on the little keurig, it blows my 5' power strip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 Our house has two chimneys, but no fireplace. (it's easy '50's, maybe '40's) (it might even be a "Sears house") It's pretty messed up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 We still have the coal-burner, in the basement, which burns wood good too, . If you start wood, and go coal, get that bed going, one tiny fireplace-accessory shovel-full, per day, will, tampped-off right, burn for two days. I don't know where the other chimney goes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 If you have two chimneys, and one is, apparently, going nowhere, that one is just made for birds swimming down your chimney, and dying flap/scream, in your ductwork, You can just be doing computer/paperwork on friday, easy, You don't want birds in your ducts. They go berserk. It's never pretty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 And I immediately felt bad that there was a bird in the ceiling. I hand-sawed some ductwork out. With a mirror and flashlight, I saw him up there. Shivering, scared. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 I think he, with the flashlight on him, ducked the duct, and went down to the bottom coal-cleanout. Which I'm not sure what it's hooked to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 42 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said: (it might even be a "Sears house") It's pretty messed up. What’s the return policy at Sears? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 When I was getting the bird out, I found 15,000,000,0000 dead june-bugs in there. They were plugging up 5' of chimney. It took, like, an hour to vacuum them out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 5 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: What’s the return policy at Sears? Next to us is a BIG house, acre over. The wife grew up in our house. We live at the tippy-top of the hill. She said her Dad owned the whole half-county of apple trees. And they grew up as apple-tree farmers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 She said her Dad built this house with his own hands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 In the woods, behind us, (which the suburbs are quickly coming), are still HUGE piles of coal. I don't know who put the coal there, or when, probably them oil-drilling jags. Or apple-tree guys. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 This is a very small house. She said she grew up with five brothers and sisters. That's Walton's ****. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 A wheel-barrow full of coal will heat this, nicely, for two weeks. If you tamp it right, it glows wicked orange for three days. Now you have to keep the windows open. It's, like, it can get really hot down here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 It's 20° now. Windows and door is open. It's fresh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 It might be, wait, what?, no. Winter sucks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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