The heat is out!!!

[Deactivated member 42515]

So my husband and I woke up this morning and noticed that the thermometer on our heating said it was 58degrees in the house... I was like thats weird and set it up to 75, and went about my business. I noticed its not getting any warmer!

So here we are stuck in a house that is now 52 degrees, and freezing our tails off! My husband is out in the garage trying to fix the heater. Our house was made in the late 90''s! And our heater was upgraded once before so I dont know why this is happening.

This happened last winter too and thats why we got a new heater for the house... our siamese fish died... poor guy... he held on as long as he could...(it got down to 42 degrees in the house that winter)

Good thing we have 2 fireplaces... just don''t wanna deal with the soot! It took me forever last time to get the black stuff out of my white carpet.

Wish us luck guys

it is currently 31 degrees outside... burrrrrrr!

 

[MakingTheGrade]

OH no!! Hope it''s fixed soon. I abhor the cold...brr..

 

[Deactivated member 42515]

WWWWWOOOOWWWW!!!!

I think PS has powers!!! I posted here and not even 5 minutes later the heat is working!!!!!
same goes for the lost ring!!! wow!!!!

its going up! 58! 59! 60! yay!

 

[perry]

Of course PS has powers...

Glad you got your heat back.

In our area there are occasional power outages. I have an industrial sized UPS that will keep my boiler - and the hot water pump going for at least 24 hours since the natural gas stays arround even when the lights go out.

Someday I will get me a portable generator as well.

The good thing about using the UPS is that I don''t have to worry about it - especially at night. If I wake up in the morning and the lights are out - I have time to do something.

I also note that I also have a UPS with extra batteries for my CPAP machine as well. I prefer to get a good nights sleep if the power goes out.

So immediate health and heat are covered.

Perry

 

[ksinger]

If you live in an area that is prone to power outtages - as we are - there is one surefire way to ensure it won''t happen ever again. Spend a bunch of money on a nice big generator and have the house outfitted with the electrical switch which allows you to run the generator into your house''s electrical system.

Thus prepared, you will NEVER ever lose power again.

 

[perry]

Date: 12/27/2009 9:14:01 PM
Author: ksinger
If you live in an area that is prone to power outtages - as we are - there is one surefire way to ensure it won''t happen ever again. Spend a bunch of money on a nice big generator and have the house outfitted with the electrical switch which allows you to run the generator into your house''s electrical system.

Thus prepared, you will NEVER ever lose power again.

I wish it were that simple. Yes, that is what they advertise. What they don''t tell you about such systems is how unreliable they are. How often they break down (or don''t start). They work fine when brand new. But, truth is that it is very difficult for an internal combustion engine to sit there for months unused - and then start up reliably.

Commercial and industrial emergency generator sets are test started and run for a notable amount of time at least monthly; and even then have a 5-10% chance of not starting. We have two full time engineers who work to keep our emergency diesels operational at work (with a maintenance staff to do all the physical work). In our case they start and run the diesels every week or two - and its a good thing we have 4 of them as it is not unusual for one of them to have problems (in a plant emergency we only really need one of the diesels to start - but nuke plants have many multiple levels of redundancy).

The UPS is far more reliable - and gives me time to manually start - and fix if necessary - a backup generator when I get one; as well as sleeping through a short term power outage without worry.

They are not cheap either.

Perry

 

[hihowareyou]

I used to work in a large supermarket while at school that did not properly maintain their generators. During storm season here losing power is common and the generators would almost never kick in, or if they did not all. I remember working one day in almost darkness with only the registers powered but no scanners so we had to type each barcode in by hand then take old school impressions of credit cards.

I also remember shoveling fridges full of meat into the garbage because they had exceeded that max time turned off for food safety. Such a waste

I''m glad your heating is working again YayTacori. If I could send you some of my heat I would. It is hot and sticky here

 

[ksinger]

Date: 12/28/2009 6:16:37 AM
Author: perry

Date: 12/27/2009 9:14:01 PM
Author: ksinger
If you live in an area that is prone to power outtages - as we are - there is one surefire way to ensure it won''t happen ever again. Spend a bunch of money on a nice big generator and have the house outfitted with the electrical switch which allows you to run the generator into your house''s electrical system.

Thus prepared, you will NEVER ever lose power again.

I wish it were that simple. Yes, that is what they advertise. What they don''t tell you about such systems is how unreliable they are. How often they break down (or don''t start). They work fine when brand new. But, truth is that it is very difficult for an internal combustion engine to sit there for months unused - and then start up reliably.

Commercial and industrial emergency generator sets are test started and run for a notable amount of time at least monthly; and even then have a 5-10% chance of not starting. We have two full time engineers who work to keep our emergency diesels operational at work (with a maintenance staff to do all the physical work). In our case they start and run the diesels every week or two - and its a good thing we have 4 of them as it is not unusual for one of them to have problems (in a plant emergency we only really need one of the diesels to start - but nuke plants have many multiple levels of redundancy).

The UPS is far more reliable - and gives me time to manually start - and fix if necessary - a backup generator when I get one; as well as sleeping through a short term power outage without worry.

They are not cheap either.

Perry

Perry.... it was a JOKE.