Northern weather

[J. S. Bach]

64° here in Chester this afternoon.

[Mitch]

'Bout 28 here right now. Couldn't ask for a better time for a thermo-coupler to give up on the boiler. Scott came back from Lowe's with one and I took the old one out of the boiler, and sure enough, the new one is wrong. And of course, Lowe's is closed now. So tomorrow we'll get the correct one for a Weil-McLain boiler at the True Value, which is closer anyway, and get 'er back in business. 'Til then, it's electric heaters in the bedrooms tonight.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

'Bout 28 here right now. Couldn't ask for a better time for a thermo-coupler to give up on the boiler. Scott came back from Lowe's with one and I took the old one out of the boiler, and sure enough, the new one is wrong. And of course, Lowe's is closed now. So tomorrow we'll get the correct one for a Weil-McLain boiler at the True Value, which is closer anyway, and get 'er back in business. 'Til then, it's electric heaters in the bedrooms tonight.

Well, that sux! My MiL had to get her entire heating system replaced about 10 days ago - pretty close to original system with close to 50 years on it......

[Mitch]

So, the new thermo coupler is in, and it's working. The pilot light stays lit, but when the stat is turned up, the boiler only clicks and the water pump starts, but it will not meter the gas through the tubes and fire. Hello John's Heating and Air Conditioning, good-bye checking account balance.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So, the new thermo coupler is in, and it's working. The pilot light stays lit, but when the stat is turned up, the boiler only clicks and the water pump starts, but it will not meter the gas through the tubes and fire. Hello John's Heating and Air Conditioning, good-bye checking account balance.

Sux!

[healey36]

So, the new thermo coupler is in, and it's working. The pilot light stays lit, but when the stat is turned up, the boiler only clicks and the water pump starts, but it will not meter the gas through the tubes and fire. Hello John's Heating and Air Conditioning, good-bye checking account balance.

From that description I'm presuming you have a gas-fired hot-water system? Is this propane or natural gas? Interesting that the circulator starts immediately but the burner doesn't fire.

Hit 57 degrees here today but I have to say it didn't feel like it...damp and miserable, but at least it wasn't nine degrees.

[Mitch]

Had two different companies come out and check the boiler today. Both said it's toast. The gas regulator is shot, it's full of debrie from rust over the years, and it's leaking CO, but not water. They both said we need a flue liner too. Estimates are $5400 from one, not quite so bad from the other. Yes, it's natural gas, not propane. Shit, it's gonna be a high of 17 on Saturday.

[robert.]

I rent an old farmhouse That got a new heater last year. Probably would have never been replaced had the landlady not moved into the other half. Since it got replaced my side has a leaky roof/chimney. Roofer claims no leak on the roof. plaster guy comes by and does a nice job fixing all the ruined plaster. Every 3 weeks the stain returns and some more plaster falls from our side of the chimney. Damn plaster is falling onto the stove. It's a nightmare. Landlady claims it's my fault for not telling her the stain keeps coming back. Everytime i call somebody they want to hear from her she pays the bills not you. Ok. Well she does not have time to deal with contractors. I call her new years eve and say chimney crumbling i think it's going to fall down. Remember it was bitterly cold here with high winds.
The third guy out here today say " Who put this heater in?" "You never run a new heater up a terracotta flow". "It needs to be stainless". Sounds to me that today's heaters are so efficient that they make a lot of condensation. All this soaked into the flew pipe of clay froze, soaked some more froze and did it all over many times a day. All that while my wife is pissed at the landlady. She still trying to say we did not notify her soon enough. Plus the house is filled with c02 and they had to had some evacuation vent system. Wife wants to move she claims now she knows why our kid was sick all last winter. The kid had pneumonia twice last year. Family doctor says "It might be the cause" So Mitch make sure your flew pipe is up to snuff.

[robert.]

aaa

[healey36]

A buddy of mine cracked his flue liner burning a wood-stove insert. Don’t know if it was a condensation issue or he just burned the thing too damn hot.

I had my chimney repointed twenty years ago...needs it again. My boiler is relatively new, but I use a heat-pump for heat...way cheaper to run but you freeze to death.

Sorry to hear this Mitch...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A buddy of mine cracked his flue liner burning a wood-stove insert. Don’t know if it was a condensation issue or he just burned the thing too damn hot.

I have my fireplace chimney in VA cleaned and check over every 2-3 years.

I had my chimney repointed twenty years ago...needs it again.

I had my entire fireplace in PA torn apart and rebuilt about a decade ago......some of the older pointing outside is needing attention. Something for the Spring.....

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That is really bad news. Wow! The only positive thing is it's not black mold, but might not be far behind or on the other side. They should have run a stainless steel flue inside the original chimney and can't believe code didn't require it. That is a serious problem on so many levels. I really feel bad for you.

BH

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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That is really bad news. Wow! The only positive thing is it's not black mold, but might not be far behind or on the other side. They should have run a stainless steel flue inside the original chimney and can't believe code didn't require it. That is a serious problem on so many levels. I really feel bad for you.

Nasty.

Probably was required and just ignored, but one might want to check the bill to see if they billed for it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Everybody got their tickets for this roller coaster ride?

Over 60 degrees and raining today, but supposedly we drop back to under freezing by tomorrow afternoon.....

[healey36]

yup, 35-degree temp drop in less than 24 hours.

Sleet and freezing rain overnight, snow Tuesday...this is the winter that just keeps giving.

I should stop whining...haven't missed the snow-thrower yet.

Healey