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Dec. 8th, 2023 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeWell. It's day two of no heat in the house.
Let me back up a little. Yesterday the heating guy came at 9 in the damn morning because our heating was being weird. It didn't feel like our thermostats were always kicking in when they should. And what we thought was, oh, well thermostats are only supposed to last ten years, aren't they? Maybe that's what the burning smell was, the wires from one of the thermostats shorting out, we'll just have him clean up and tune up the boiler and replace the thermostats and it'll be fine.
And he did clean up and tune up the boiler, and he took a look at it and then he found out that in fact it was not the thermostat that was busted. It was in fact the electrical panel on the boiler that processes the sensors and the input and then tells the boiler "hey, the water for the radiators is a little cold, better fire it up and make it hotter" or "hey, we need more hot water in the upstairs boilers, let's go." Those were not at all working. And he gave it something like 90% odds that that panel was what we'd smelled shorting out, which, yeah, probably. And the good news is that that panel, or rather a direct replacement now manufactured, still exists and is easy to come by. The bad news is it's not actually safe to run the boiler until it gets replaced because of risk of electrical fire.
So the good news I guess is that we found out what had caused the electrical fire smell without the house catching on fire, and the bad news is that we have no heat for at least a week. In the middle of winter.. I am not best pleased by this. No one in the house is best pleased, not me, not my husband, not the cats. But then we'd be even less pleased if the house or the boiler or something caught on fire, so I guess needs must.
And this is better than the last time we didn't have heat in the middle of winter. That one was due to a power outage on account of a fallen tree also knocking over a power pole, and that took three days to fix and the winter was even colder than this one. This time we have space heaters and a working oven to make hot food and a working dryer to heat blankets. So it could be a hell of a lot worse. I'm just still unhappy.
But I also met my current root canal dentist, and he seems pretty nice and all that practice does is root canals, so I have to believe they know what they're doing. And we topped up the spices that need topping up, and we got more catnip bananas for the cats because for some reason every single cat in the house is only mildly interested in catnip mice, but will absolutely go wild over catnip bananas. I don't know, I just provide the bananas.
Work has been done, I got to sleep in today which gave me some strength to deal with everything, I get to sleep in tomorrow because I've done everything that doesn't involve taking things to standup meeting and going "I need another pair of eyes on this, it's driving me batshit." I feel like I've accomplished some other things but I can't remember what the hell they are. Got cats fed on time, maybe. Got cats and me fed on time, medicated. Picked up my prescription. I got Christmas presents out, I think all of them except the box for the friend who's not going to be home until later, and that's going out in January. I'm keeping my head above water on things I want to get done even if it doesn't necessarily feel like it. There will be better days than this, and there have been worse. So it's going to be okay.
Let me back up a little. Yesterday the heating guy came at 9 in the damn morning because our heating was being weird. It didn't feel like our thermostats were always kicking in when they should. And what we thought was, oh, well thermostats are only supposed to last ten years, aren't they? Maybe that's what the burning smell was, the wires from one of the thermostats shorting out, we'll just have him clean up and tune up the boiler and replace the thermostats and it'll be fine.
And he did clean up and tune up the boiler, and he took a look at it and then he found out that in fact it was not the thermostat that was busted. It was in fact the electrical panel on the boiler that processes the sensors and the input and then tells the boiler "hey, the water for the radiators is a little cold, better fire it up and make it hotter" or "hey, we need more hot water in the upstairs boilers, let's go." Those were not at all working. And he gave it something like 90% odds that that panel was what we'd smelled shorting out, which, yeah, probably. And the good news is that that panel, or rather a direct replacement now manufactured, still exists and is easy to come by. The bad news is it's not actually safe to run the boiler until it gets replaced because of risk of electrical fire.
So the good news I guess is that we found out what had caused the electrical fire smell without the house catching on fire, and the bad news is that we have no heat for at least a week. In the middle of winter.. I am not best pleased by this. No one in the house is best pleased, not me, not my husband, not the cats. But then we'd be even less pleased if the house or the boiler or something caught on fire, so I guess needs must.
And this is better than the last time we didn't have heat in the middle of winter. That one was due to a power outage on account of a fallen tree also knocking over a power pole, and that took three days to fix and the winter was even colder than this one. This time we have space heaters and a working oven to make hot food and a working dryer to heat blankets. So it could be a hell of a lot worse. I'm just still unhappy.
But I also met my current root canal dentist, and he seems pretty nice and all that practice does is root canals, so I have to believe they know what they're doing. And we topped up the spices that need topping up, and we got more catnip bananas for the cats because for some reason every single cat in the house is only mildly interested in catnip mice, but will absolutely go wild over catnip bananas. I don't know, I just provide the bananas.
Work has been done, I got to sleep in today which gave me some strength to deal with everything, I get to sleep in tomorrow because I've done everything that doesn't involve taking things to standup meeting and going "I need another pair of eyes on this, it's driving me batshit." I feel like I've accomplished some other things but I can't remember what the hell they are. Got cats fed on time, maybe. Got cats and me fed on time, medicated. Picked up my prescription. I got Christmas presents out, I think all of them except the box for the friend who's not going to be home until later, and that's going out in January. I'm keeping my head above water on things I want to get done even if it doesn't necessarily feel like it. There will be better days than this, and there have been worse. So it's going to be okay.
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Date: 2023-12-08 07:45 pm (UTC)The boy looked up the part (I'd copied down the serial number) and while the panel on our boiler is discontinued there's a direct replacement that seems to be readily available, so hopefully it won't be too long. That'll make everything so much easier to bear. Until then it's blankets and space heaters.
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Date: 2023-12-08 10:01 pm (UTC)