BIRD FARM SOUTHA Dirty Man is Good to Find
Anybody out there been through a power outage or had a furnace take a crap on a cold day? We do live out in the country in an old, old house. We figure that the boiler (we have hot water heat) is about 40 to 50 years old. The dern thing is like a Timex watch; it takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. When the power goes out, you start a generator. When the furnace quits, you fire up the corn stove. Of course this assumes that you have a generator and a corn stove. We happen to have both.
Then you figure out what the heck happened to the furnace or boiler as the case may be. That is what the Door Guru was doin' when he got this dirty:
He was down in the basement for a couple hours. There was quite a bit of banging and some muffled swearing that filtered upstairs. Eventually the pipes started to warm up, some rattle, rattle, thunder clatter sounds indicated that the boiler was once again working.
Here's a close up of the poor guys neck. I couldn't believe that there was that much grunge even in our old cellar.
The door guru tells me that we got a bad load of fuel oil. Fuel oil is just dyed diesel fuel. Our boiler uses it to heat the water for the registers. When the fuel oil doesn't burn properly, it causes a bunch of soot and clogs up the mechanism/brains and the burners in the boiler controls. At least that is as much as I understand. More later.
Then you figure out what the heck happened to the furnace or boiler as the case may be. That is what the Door Guru was doin' when he got this dirty:
He was down in the basement for a couple hours. There was quite a bit of banging and some muffled swearing that filtered upstairs. Eventually the pipes started to warm up, some rattle, rattle, thunder clatter sounds indicated that the boiler was once again working.
Here's a close up of the poor guys neck. I couldn't believe that there was that much grunge even in our old cellar.
The door guru tells me that we got a bad load of fuel oil. Fuel oil is just dyed diesel fuel. Our boiler uses it to heat the water for the registers. When the fuel oil doesn't burn properly, it causes a bunch of soot and clogs up the mechanism/brains and the burners in the boiler controls. At least that is as much as I understand. More later.
Posted by Lisa Strafford at 1/18/2010 5:15 AM 
Categories: Home Front
Tags: Home fixit fixit guys good men.
Categories: Home Front
Tags: Home fixit fixit guys good men.
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