yesterday morning the furnace people arrived around 8 am, just when they said they would… the temp had made it up to 18°C…
people came and went, bits and pieces were removed and then the new high efficiency furnace made it into the basement after tarps were laid down to protect the stairs… Harry worked all day, with helpers coming and going as needed…
it took two of them to get the heavy oldie out of the house…
I was out for the afternoon and when I arrived home the temperature was at a toasty 20°C…
the basement was perfectly clean, all of the bits and pieces which had gone into the backyard were gone and the vents had been raised so the snow shouldn’t be a problem in the future…
and this pretty thing was snuggled into the space… reminds me a bit of Barbie, the barbecue;-)…
I am very pleased with the whole process and would happily recommend M1 Mechanical for furnace replacement or repair…
the furnace has been misbehaving for nearly six weeks…
it started when my Nest app advised that the furnace had been off a number of times over a few weeks starting early in November and suggested I be in touch with a technician… this had never happened before…
I contacted the usual company and they said as long as it was working they couldn’t tell what was wrong… they booked me for an annual maintenance appointment which wasn’t until December…
since the beginning of December I have listened to the furnace starting and stopping close together, a sound which was certainly new… different from previous problems when it had stopped due to snow plugging the vents…
when the technician came for the annual checkup they advised that the furnace needed to be replaced… apparently it is 37 years old… it was working fine while they were here although it was doing a bit of the on-and-off business…
I called another company for a second opinion and on Friday they agreed that it needed to be replaced before too long…
Saturday when I got up, the temperature was 14.5° Celsius and it took hours for it to even start raising the temperature in the house… I was worried it had finally stopped;-(… eventually it made it to 17° C… Sunday it stayed around that temperature…
Monday it was down to 16° C and was quite chilly, lol… I called and a new install was scheduled for Wednesday…
Tuesday, it was 14.5°C when I got up… I raised the dial on the thermometer to 32° and it took a very long time to start to warm up…
then it got too hot, but I was afraid to lower the temperature in case it stopped working again… eventually I lowered it to 22 before bed…
this morning in my Advent box I received a kaleidoscope of butterflies…
I love that name for a group of butterflies;-)…
some of them had broken free of their original home and had stuck themselves all over the inside of the box… it took a bit of time to get them all out, lol…
the glue on them is just down the centre of each one so their wings raise up a bit and they do look as though they are fluttering…
I put them on the bathroom mirror and they look very sweet there…
we will see if they stay or flutter to the ground as there isn’t much stickiness to them;-)…
sounds can make me a little crazy when I hear them and can’t figure out what they are…
once I know what they are then I am fine…
recently, whenever I closed the fridge door, this odd clicking sound happened…
I tried a few things but couldn’t figure it out… eventually I realized it was the feet on the little reindeer… as the door closed they moved and banged onto the Advent calendar the small reindeer was sitting on…
back at it in the garage… our last foray out there, a few weeks ago, involved dumping everything onto the floor to be sorted…
this time we went through and put items back up in the rafters that seemed like good things to keep… I let a lot go, although I know many people who might have wanted some of the bits, lol…
then we put the excess lumber (from the fence build) up there… it had been under a tarp along the edge of the driveway since June when the fence was finished…
everything else on the floor was loaded into the back of the truck and driven away…
there were still a number of items on the floor that needed to find homes…
we “finished” in the garage late Sunday afternoon…
the floor was finally cleared and vacuumed and there was a lot of dust from the wet-vac, lol…
the bench got slightly rearranged as we still need more work done there, lol… and then Indi made it into the space…
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