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MenagerieGrl

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No it was only a 30 gallon water heater for the inside hot water. But with the gas turned off to do that I would have to relight the furnace for heat. But my brain wasn't working evidently because it didn't compute ? gas turned off=pilot off to furnace ? the furnace is very old but very efficient. I wouldn't want to replace it and would really like to keep fixing it if possible. As it turns out they evidently disturbed a wire to it because even with the pilot lit it won't fire up. But at least I know to use an alternative heat tonight ahead of time. I'll just turn on the oil filled electric heater for the night on low and it will stay warm. This house is so easy to heat and cool it makes the new stuff look stupid. The morning sun comes in the back side windows almost all day and then around 3pm comes through the front windows until sundown. That's winter and summer. It works but I have to keep a window partially open when I sleep for fresh air most days.?
Re; Keeping your Furnace running. Good for you for keeping it going.
I did 10 years of service calls on Forced Air Furnaces & Hydronic Boilers @ NAS Alameda. Furnaces are easy to keep running. Only 2 reasons I personally would retire a Furnace, One - The Heat exchanger inside has cracked/failed, that would allow C0 to enter your home, the other would be that it is so inefficient that it would be cost effective to replace.
Blower motors, Combination Gas Valves, Fan / Safety Switches are all usually relatively easy to come by.
 

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So you replaced a boiler that only needed relighting or have I misunderstood?

Our gov have just said they will give £5k grants for people to replace gas boilers with air or ground heat source pumps, to reduce CO2 emissions but they can cost £10k + and are massive things that are fitted outside - not suitable for every property.
I'm all for making smart changes about energy consumption habits, equipment & technology. The very last person I'm going to listen to about it is from a politician. Maybe your politicians are better, Lyn.
 

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Rose left today for Iceland. She will be gone until the 23rd. She and some of her life long friends are going to see the northern lights!? So it's just my mother in law, Opo and me. Time to have a party!????
My step-daughter just got back from Iceland and Amsterdam. He job sent her there for 2 months!
 

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Good morning all, this damned delay thing is still with me.
I type but then I have to wait for the words for to appear and catch up with me - like one of those old teleprinter things.
I don't know if its just TFO or my laptop. I'll have to experiment with other websites.

It's very wet and wild here today but so muggy - wouldn't surprise me if we do have the thunderstorms they forecast. .

Anyway I'm going to try to sort out this problem so see you later.
Have a good Wednesday.
 

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Well, here in SF bay we actually got MOISTURE, on the ground Sunday. Wasn't enough to register on the rain gauge, But at this point in time we will take anything. Supposed to rain tonight predictions from 0.10" to 0.50" and precipitation all the way through Sunday again. Need to set up rain barrels.
Took one of the fur babies to an oncologist this morn. Kinda decided Chemo on a 15 yr old beagle might be a lil hard on her. She had a Hemangiosarcoma Tumor removed In August, it was a bleeding mess..
She is doing 100% better, actually gained some wight.
Was prescribed Meloxicam to help suppress any new tumors. And ended up being well below the $650.00 potential cost.
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I was born and raised in SF 3 blocks away from the Cow Palace...what an experience then...
 

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Re; Keeping your Furnace running. Good for you for keeping it going.
I did 10 years of service calls on Forced Air Furnaces & Hydronic Boilers @ NAS Alameda. Furnaces are easy to keep running. Only 2 reasons I personally would retire a Furnace, One - The Heat exchanger inside has cracked/failed, that would allow C0 to enter your home, the other would be that it is so inefficient that it would be cost effective to replace.
Blower motors, Combination Gas Valves, Fan / Safety Switches are all usually relatively easy to come by.
My second last ex-husband was Terminal Manager at NAS Alameda for years in the 1970's...we flew everywhere for free...we spent 4 months or so traveling Europe it was wonderful
 

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I did a system file check to see any corrupt files were affecting my laptop, so just checking to see if things have improved here and so far so good. I seem to have fixed whatever it was.
At least I hope I have ?
It was getting really frustrating trying to post.
Lola's having a nice soak so better go and check his water temp.
TTFN
 

Blackdog1714

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I did a system file check to see any corrupt files were affecting my laptop, so just checking to see if things have improved here and so far so good. I seem to have fixed whatever it was.
At least I hope I have ?
It was getting really frustrating trying to post.
Lola's having a nice soak so better go and check his water temp.
TTFN
Gotta clean the ram cache every so often
 

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No it was only a 30 gallon water heater for the inside hot water. But with the gas turned off to do that I would have to relight the furnace for heat. But my brain wasn't working evidently because it didn't compute ? gas turned off=pilot off to furnace ? the furnace is very old but very efficient. I wouldn't want to replace it and would really like to keep fixing it if possible. As it turns out they evidently disturbed a wire to it because even with the pilot lit it won't fire up. But at least I know to use an alternative heat tonight ahead of time. I'll just turn on the oil filled electric heater for the night on low and it will stay warm. This house is so easy to heat and cool it makes the new stuff look stupid. The morning sun comes in the back side windows almost all day and then around 3pm comes through the front windows until sundown. That's winter and summer. It works but I have to keep a window partially open when I sleep for fresh air most days.?

The company who turned off the gas to your house in order to replace the gas powered hot water tank SHOULD have asked if you had any other gas appliances. Our gas company recently replaced the outside gas meter on our house. Once done, the tech came in the house and checked/relit pilot on our fireplace & furnace & water tank.

Good you got things warmed up.
 

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Just back from a quick Lidl trip for salad greens for our dinners. Popped back into the truck - no starty start…?‍♂️?. Luckily i always carry jumper cables & we flagged down a nice fellow shopper to assist the jump start.

Not sure whats up with the battery, but we took a long nice country drive to hopefully give the battery a charge. Drove past our local nature preserve & I spotted a Box Turtle on road’s edge. Stopped, picked it up & examined…..its eyes were totally swollen & closed tightly. I drove back into the preserve & released him in a nice swamp, boggy area. Hope he makes it!
 

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Just back from a quick Lidl trip for salad greens for our dinners. Popped back into the truck - no starty start…?‍♂️?. Luckily i always carry jumper cables & we flagged down a nice fellow shopper to assist the jump start.

Not sure whats up with the battery, but we took a long nice country drive to hopefully give the battery a charge. Drove past our local nature preserve & I spotted a Box Turtle on road’s edge. Stopped, picked it up & examined…..its eyes were totally swollen & closed tightly. I drove back into the preserve & released him in a nice swamp, boggy area. Hope he makes it!
Remember an alternator is part of that system...did you check that?
 

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WooHoo, we got .22" of Rain ?? overnight! Other areas got a lot more.
Almost forgot how nice it is to have "moisture" around. AND the air smells fresh, too.
I know for some folks this is NBD, but we have been parched here. so for us it IS a BD.
That's wonderful ?????? I love the smell of rain cleaned air too.?
 

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Good morning all, it's wet and very muggy here. There's a high possibility of thunderstorms tomorrow so the met office has put warnings out.
Lola has ventured outside but just a little stroll in the drizzle was enough before he came back in and headed to his hide.
I had the result of my MRI today and, as suspected, I have another torn cartilage, so I'm back on the waiting list for an arthroscopy on the other knee. Last year it all happened very quickly but I don't know how long the list is now. At least I know something can be done so I'm happy about that and hopeful that once that's been sorted out I can start to enjoy my longer walks again.
Anyway better get on looking busy, so see you later.
Hope you all have a good Tuesday
Sorry about your knee.?
 

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So did he fernagle his way into your house... just out of curiosity. I don't know your set up. Or where the man cave is. I'm thinking your patio but not sure if I remember correctly. So he was able to be outside?
The man cave is outside of the screened porch. His night box is in the screened porch. So the night he slept in his man cave. I left a door open, incase he wanted to come in. When he is in the night box, I will close the screen doors. Then open them in the morning.
 

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Re; Keeping your Furnace running. Good for you for keeping it going.
I did 10 years of service calls on Forced Air Furnaces & Hydronic Boilers @ NAS Alameda. Furnaces are easy to keep running. Only 2 reasons I personally would retire a Furnace, One - The Heat exchanger inside has cracked/failed, that would allow C0 to enter your home, the other would be that it is so inefficient that it would be cost effective to replace.
Blower motors, Combination Gas Valves, Fan / Safety Switches are all usually relatively easy to come by.
Yes and it's such a simple furnace it's rediculous to replace it. It's ugly but I could replace the cosmetic parts that are just the vents. To do another I would have to run ducts and all kinds of other stuff. I heat the 2 bedrooms with oil filled electric heaters on the lowest setting unless it's record setting cold. The only reason I do that is because we always keep the doors shut. I have family members that can at least advise me on what's wrong. So we'll see. I do have the hot water in the kitchen faucet back today...then the furnace tomorrow I guess.
 

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My step-daughter just got back from Iceland and Amsterdam. He job sent her there for 2 months!
Rose went to see the northern lights last night. She said it was nice. The only problem was there was a full moon. It took some of the color away. So if anyone goes to see the northern lights. Make sure there is not going to be a full moon.
 

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