The joys of (old) home ownership
Posted on January 16, 2007
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Our furnace crew came back and after 3 hours of changing out thermostats, rewiring and otherwise struggling to figure out why the newly-repaired furnace would not work, made an interesting discovery. A fuse box, with one fuse for the furnace motor, had been installed on the wall, and then the sheet metal furnace - about the size of a refrigerator - had been installed in front of it - it was only by making a twisting dive behind the ductwork that our guys even found the darn thing. The new blower motor blew the fuse, natch and there is all but no way - short of cutting the ducts and removing the furnace - to get to it.
So we’ve done a temporary patch, by running a 3-wire cord to a nearby socket, but clearly we need an electrician in to make this more permanent. Sigh. This isn’t the first such discovery in this house that was once owned by an engineer who had his own ways of doing things (lots of recycled radiator hoses in the sprinkler system plumbing, for example). The good news is the house is now toasty warm and the furnace is quieter than it used to be….
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Ok…so it is cold there.
It was -8 here in Des Moines Yesterday morning and today was a balmy 6 degrees at 0800.
My furnace as a carbon monoxide switch that has malfunctioned…repeatedly. It just shuts the bloody thing off and then my wife tears the skin off my back for not being Bob Villa, or Duane Schneider, or whatever.
Nils