Hell freezes over
Nov. 29th, 2024 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrSo the furnace replacement crew arrived on schedule Wednesday morning. Denise and the cats removed to the bedroom while they tore out the old unit, climbed up the roof to bang on the chimney and install the new flue liner. I left them to it around 11 am, went down to Club Mud to handle casseroles, from there at 2 pm over to the fairgrounds to set up for Holiday Market.
I was up on the step ladder hanging my booth sign at 3:40 pm when my cell rang. It was our contact from Marshall's Heating and Air Conditioning, saying they couldn't install our furnace.
He'd made a mistake; he'd quoted a unit, 80% efficient, that wasn't legal to install in our situation, a furnace closet adjoining a bedroom. His boss had caught the error on a site visit, and shut the whole process down. He'd have to send us a revised quote on a different, more efficient system that met the current building code.
I was good. I didn't swear. I did nearly cry. We'd been without heat for twenty days at this point, and the thought of Thanksgiving in the cold just about broke me. He promised to send over some space heaters for us to use, which i didn't have high hopes for. The one I have now will barely heat a small bathroom with the door closed. But I said thank you, and that I couldn't talk about this now, I was tired, my knee hurt, and I needed to focus on getting my booth set up. Called Denise to break the news, but she was at physical therapy and it went to voice mail.
The space heaters are rather better than I expected. Higher power, and they have a safety switch that shuts them down if they go off vertical; if, say, you pick one up to move it, or the cats knock them over. So we can leave them on all day. With one in the bedroom, one in the kitchen, and the radiant heater by the table, Thanksgiving was almost cosy.
Got the new proposal(s) Wednesday night, for a 95% one-stage furnace and a 96% two-stage, although the numbers didn't make sense. The one he said was between the original unit and the more efficient two-stage in cost seemed to actually be about $500 more. Confusing. Finally talked to him today and discovered he'd got the prices reversed, so we settled on the one-stage unit, he'd put in an order, and hopefully could install it on Tuesday. Thursday at latest.
Fingers crossed. Toes crossed.
I was up on the step ladder hanging my booth sign at 3:40 pm when my cell rang. It was our contact from Marshall's Heating and Air Conditioning, saying they couldn't install our furnace.
He'd made a mistake; he'd quoted a unit, 80% efficient, that wasn't legal to install in our situation, a furnace closet adjoining a bedroom. His boss had caught the error on a site visit, and shut the whole process down. He'd have to send us a revised quote on a different, more efficient system that met the current building code.
I was good. I didn't swear. I did nearly cry. We'd been without heat for twenty days at this point, and the thought of Thanksgiving in the cold just about broke me. He promised to send over some space heaters for us to use, which i didn't have high hopes for. The one I have now will barely heat a small bathroom with the door closed. But I said thank you, and that I couldn't talk about this now, I was tired, my knee hurt, and I needed to focus on getting my booth set up. Called Denise to break the news, but she was at physical therapy and it went to voice mail.
The space heaters are rather better than I expected. Higher power, and they have a safety switch that shuts them down if they go off vertical; if, say, you pick one up to move it, or the cats knock them over. So we can leave them on all day. With one in the bedroom, one in the kitchen, and the radiant heater by the table, Thanksgiving was almost cosy.
Got the new proposal(s) Wednesday night, for a 95% one-stage furnace and a 96% two-stage, although the numbers didn't make sense. The one he said was between the original unit and the more efficient two-stage in cost seemed to actually be about $500 more. Confusing. Finally talked to him today and discovered he'd got the prices reversed, so we settled on the one-stage unit, he'd put in an order, and hopefully could install it on Tuesday. Thursday at latest.
Fingers crossed. Toes crossed.