Briz, I hope you can find a coat. Since moving to FL, all my coats are stored.... somewhere... I figure I'll need them again someday. lol
One regret that my father did was change the furnace to natural gas from oil because at the time gas was alot cheaper for a long time but no lie maby 6 months later gas prices sky rocketed. Removing that oil furnace gave alot more room though but, the basement never got warm with the gas setup. The guy even put a gizmo with holes in part of the ducking to put heat out but it was taken down immediatley by the housing inspector. It didn't do much anyways. Got to ask you furnace/plumber guys. Are house was built in 1907 so when was the original oil furnace put in? From when the house was built? All the town records were destroyed in a fire in the 40's so couldn't find out even a little bit. Braking down the exterior of the furnace there was probably at least 7 huge squarish iron slabs inside. Wow they were heavy.. Not to brag at all but I was a early senior in high school benching 315 lbs of reps and squatting 405 lbs. It took everything I had to slide the plates to the bulkhead were a friend with a winch slid them up the bulkhead steps with a blank of wood..
The roads were wet. My buddy took off OK in first but then slammed it into second. The back end slid to the right and he went into the median strip. The front end hit a palm tree, then it did a 180° spin and the back end hit the next palm tree. The end!
I’ve got good news and bad news. Why does it always seem that way. I heard on our local news today that the ocean around Florida dropped in temperature significantly. Lake Worth pier, a couple miles to my east, the ocean temperature is 81° which is a record low for this time of year. Down in Miami at their ocean temperature monitor they are also 81°. That’s 5° below normal. Saint Augustine is already 77° which is another record low. So the good news, meteorologists were saying that this hurricane season is probably over. The bad news, LMAO, it’s probably going to be a very cold winter for the Up North people. Yeah, they included us but it never gets that bad. Wow, maybe we will have a frost again.
I just finished hanging all my rain gutters back up on the house. Had to take them down for a new roof at the beginning of the summer. It’s quite warm out today and the breeze isn’t all that great.
La Nina is expected to stick around for its third winter up here, which is highly unusual. If so, I anticipate more snow than normal....again. Oh well, as long as my snowblower and 4X4 keeps working, I'll survive. Probably experiencing the last of 2022's pleasant weather today and tomorrow. Currently 63°F and sunny.
Tom, I really like La Niña. She sounds like a really sweet girl, but you know, she doesn’t like up north people. She can be cold blooded. And now La Nino, well I’m not part of the KGB, CIA
46 for today's high. Glad my house has no heating system while we reformulate the new multi-source system. 28 tonight, this morning was 26. Can't wait to throw a log in the new furnace 57 currently in the livingroom
Likely a coal burner originally in 1907? This is based on my experience in Buffalo NY where a lot of the home of that vintage had the coal chute adjacent to the location of the furnace...
This house(1901) had 2 coal hot air furnaces. We found a receipt for 10 metric tons of coal in one delivery. When we bought the house we used 600 gallons of oil a month to keep it at 56 degrees to work inside. We now use 120 gallons a month at 68 degrees. Stay warm folks
We don’t have any heat. None, nada, nothing. A couple winters ago it got down to 65. The “penguins” were freezing. LMAO!!!!! I thought they were going to sh*t an egg.
Yes.... 7" of spray foam in the attic and R31 walls we are doing the basement wall insulation in a few weeks. We also have 77 windows, 6 exterior doors and 3-7'H×9'W R18 garage doors. We generally heat the house with a 78,000 btu oil furnace. To give you a sense of scale the 4 chimneys are 56ft tall.....
