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I woke up Monday to the crisp winter nip in the air. Unfortunately I was still in my house. The heater should have removed any nasty winter nip.
Yes, I am speaking for the dead today--my dead heater.
I live in a 78 year old house, much older than the age of central heating, so the heating system it uses is cobbled together from almost 8 decades of people making things fit.
The result, my trusted Heater Repair Guru predicts that a new heating system can be had. It will just take about two weeks, and most of my son's room since he doesn't want to put it where the old one was.
Luckilly today I talked to a new heating guru who will give me a price on a new system that will take less than a day to install.
But that day will be next week, after the holiday.
For today, I am living in my parent's RV in my drive trying to stay warm for now.
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Away in an RV, no cribs and no beds, The cold Raven Family laid down their sweet heads. The family furnace has been laid to rest, The cold Raven Family must find a new nest.
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The last Christmas I was in Canada, I was at my aunt and uncle's place. My uncle had gone to work (driving taxi) and my aunt and I were alone at their place. A storm came in and dropped a couple of feet of snow and downed power lines all over the place. Roads were declared off-limits while plowing was done so emergency vehicles could use them. Their furnace stopped working. We figured it out when we woke to no heat. Oh yeah, and it was -20 Celsius or so outside.
We grabbed all the blankets in the house and piled into my aunt's bed and snacked on crackers and egg-nog until the the furnace came back on that afternoon. It took until evening for the furnace to heat the house back up again.
The snowfall caused all sorts of problems. Highways shut down, people parking their cars on the sides of roads to wait out the snowstorm only to find that it didn't let up. Lots of people walking to the nearest farmhouse and asking for help, only to be put up for several days.
Lots of grateful people for all those farmers that year. It was a mess, but it could have been so much worse.
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Seriously, though, several thinner layers will make you warmer than one heavy one. And for Goodness Sake, put on a hat!
When our heat went kerflooey, we bundled up, huddled under electric blankets, and borrowed space heaters to heat just one room at a time.
If the furnace has to go bad, why can't it do so in the summer? I guess for the same reason that our roof only seemed to leak on rainy days. Posts: 10397 | Registered: Jun 2005
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I had my furnace die on New Year's Eve one year, but at least we were in a townhouse so we were somewhat insulated by the houses on either side of us for the few days it took to get it fixed. I think it only ever got down to around 45 or 50 degrees in the house.
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You could come here. Its supposed to be 81 tomorrow and 80 on Sunday. Blech. Too warm for Christmas! We've only really had about 2 weeks of what passes for winter here. Send some of the cold my way. Its not nice being greedy during this season Posts: 1132 | Registered: A Long Time Ago!
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Careful, careful, CAREFUL, Dan_raven. BEWARE OF CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING from attempting to keep an RV heated, and by sealing out the drafts, air flow.
ANYONE having phone contact with Dan_raven PLEASE call him, and make sure that he is aware of the CarbonMonoxide Poisoning Hazard. All too many people die every year during cold weather from attempting to stay warm after an outage of their normal heating system. PLEASE CALLPosts: 8501 | Registered: Jul 2001
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Dan_raven, buy some electric heaters, or borrow some from your neighbors. Then use the electric heater(s) to keep one room heated as the warm room. Preferably one with the least window and wall exposure to the outside.
DO NOT USE A PORTABLE GAS HEATER or a charcoal grill or anything else that provides heat by burning.
When I think of the typical poorly insulated RV/trailer, and the typical heating system used in them... ...DANGER pops immediately into my mind.
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Don't worry. I come from a long line of RV users who have camped in the winter. We don't make the RV airtight, there is plenty of fresh air.
We are using only portable electric heaters in the house, and a modern, efficient wood stove in our main room--the one with vaulted ceilings that have little insulation.
We are breathing fine.
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The bad news and the good news: The bad news, despite 40-50 degree weather, we actually woke of on Christmas morning with a half inch of snow on the ground.
The good news, I HAVE HEAT. ahhh, warm air blowing in my house. All happy and well.
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