Under the House
After the furnace work was completed, I took a lot of pics and videos of what is under the interior of the house. We worried…
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Getting Off the Diesel, Part 7 (Dénouement)
After a full seven days of very hard work, the Ventwerx crew were finally done with demolishing our old furnaces and getting our new Fujitsu…
Getting Off the Diesel, Part 6 (The Small Gotchas and the Studio)
In addition to the uncovered drainpipe mentioned previously, there were two small gotchas. Originally the Ventwerx guy thought they’d be able to install both inverters/fan…
Getting Off the Diesel, Part 5 (Opening the Walls and Making Piles)
While the crew under the house continued to remove the old ductwork, a couple of other Ventwerx guys got to work opening up the walls…
Getting Off the Diesel, Part 4 (What Was Left)
Once everything was out from under the house, we were left with a few relics. The return and supply ducts at the crawl space look…
Getting Off the Diesel, Part 3 (Demolition)
There was a lot of upheaval when we replaced our furnaces, as we the crew was here for over a week, and furniture had to…
Getting Off the Diesel, Part 2
Beneath most of the house is a crawlspace with a poured concrete floor. There are three access points to get under the house–in the guest…
Getting Off the Diesel, Part 1
In May 2018, we started the very large project of decommissioning our twin diesel furnaces. Even though we had nursed them through two winters, cleaned…
Furnace Filters
We finished up our grand furnace project with two smaller projects last month. The first was ordering new filters that we could put in the air…
The Disemboweling of Purgatory, Part 4: Ducts
As noted in the previous posts, we had our furnaces tuned up and a new thermostat installed for one of them. The next step was getting…
The Bowels of Purgatory, Part 3: Thermostat Enlightenment
One of the more stupid things here at Purgatory was the location of the thermostat for Furnace A. (For those that missed the last few…
The Bowels of Purgatory, Part 2: Furnace Stink
Continuing the last post, we’ve been slowly getting some work done on the heating utensils of Purgatory. Last year we scraped by with minimal knowledge of our furnaces,…
The Bowels of Purgatory, Part 1: Furnace Story
First a point of clarification: we have two furnaces of the exact same make/model. Furnace B handles the north wing of the house, and Furnace A the…
Furnace Fun
When we bought the house, we were well aware that the furnaces were old and needed eventual replacement. They are original to the house, installed in…
Work Continues
It’s been a very busy week. On Saturday, Agent Smith took a load of stuff down and met with the Wall Guy again to talk scope…