Under the House
After the furnace work was completed I took a lot of pics and videos of what is under the interior...
Furnace
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 7 (Dénouement )
After a full 7 days of very hard work, the crew from Ventwerx were finally done with the demolition of...
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 6 (The Small Gotchas and the Studio)
With this project, in addition to the uncovered drain pipe mentioned in the last post, there were two small gotchas....
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 5 (Opening the Walls and Making Piles)
Wiring While the crew under the house continued to remove the old duct work, a couple of others Ventwerx guys...
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 4 (What Was Left)
Once everything was out from under the house we were left with a few relics. Where the return and supplies...
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 3 (Demolition)
There was a lot of upheaval when we replaced our furnaces as we had a crew here for over a...
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 2
Following on from the last post, the tale of the furnace replacement continues.... Beneath most of the house is a...
Getting Off the Diesel: Part 1
Back in May of 2018 we started the very large project of decommissioning our twin diesel furnaces. It seemed like...
Furnace Filters
We finished up our grand furnace project with two smaller projects last month. The first was to order in some...
The Disembowling of Purgatory (Part IV): Ducts
As noted in the previous posts as part of getting ready for winter we had our furnaces tuned up and...
The Bowels of Purgatory (Part III): Thermostat Enlightenment
One of the more stupid things here at Purgatory was the location of the thermostat for Furnace A. (For those...
The Bowels of Purgatory (Part II): Furnace Stink
Following on from the last post, we've been slowly getting some work done on the heating utensils of Purgatory. Last year we scraped...
The Bowels of Purgatory (Part I): Furnace Story
First a point of clarification: we have two furnaces of the exact same make/model. Furnace B handles the north wing of...
Furnace Fun
When we bought the house we were well aware that the furnaces were old and eventually we will want to...