Cold: adjective

[jducoeur]

Definition: that state wherein, even after the boiler has been running at full blast for over four hours, the house is still only about 55 degrees.

It took one thorough panic, two phone calls and about an hour, but once I got the right oil guy he was pretty efficient about it. He didn't even blink -- just (correctly) assumed that the line from the tank was frozen. There's apparently a lot of that going around today. He futzed around with it for a little while, decided that it was going to take some time, and ran back to his home base to get us a five-gallon oil can to run off of for a few hours while he went and dealt with other peoples' crises. Came back an hour or so ago, finally managed to get the main tank functioning again (knock on wood), and quietly vanished.

Still, it's scary-cold today. By the time he managed to get the boiler running on the oilcan (at around 6:30am), the house was down to maybe 40 degrees. And the boiler has been fighting manfully to get it back to a liveable temperature since.

Warm thoughts go out to baron_elric and family, and their slightly incomplete house. It is just too damn cold...

Comments

[keshwyn]

Keshwyn thinks warm thoughts in your direction. You get:

Polypropalene long underwear.
Woolly-but-not-itchy socks.
Mittens.
Hot water bottles.
Down comfortors.
Tea. LOTS of tea.
Hot cocoa.
Cayenne pepper.
Hot and sour soup.
Rabbits.
August in Washington DC.

Keshwyn decides she'd better stop after that last one. I hope your house warms up soon!

[baron-elric.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the good wishes. Our kitchen thermometer read 36 this morning. Yes, that was the inside temp. Still better than the -8 outside. But way too cold for comfort. At least, with a new radiator installed, my car is warm for the long drive north tomorrow....

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

When I first moved into Boston proper, the thermostat didn't work in our apartment. Which, of course, we discovered when it didn't get over 50 inside for a week. Definitely unfun. And it wasn't nearly as cold then as it is now.

Good luck warming your house. Bake some cookies!

Thermostats

[metageek.livejournal.com]

I had the opposite problem once: when I moved to the DC area, the apartment management didn't bother to mention that the air conditioning wasn't turned on until...the first of May? It got hot a couple of weeks before that, so I set the thermostat to "cool" before going to bed.

I woke up about 1:00, sweating profusely. The fan in the heating/cooling unit was roaring full blast, blowing hot air. Near as I can figure, since the air conditioner was off, the fan wasn't actually getting any cooling done, but the thermostat didn't know that. So it kept the fan going continuously, and the fan motor started heating up. This heated up the room, so the thermostat turned up the fan. Positive feedback loop: the hotter the room got, the faster the fan ran, and vice versa.

So I guess this is another "warm thoughts" offering for Justin. ;-)

[tpau]

that is truly sucky... if you wnat you cna go hang out at our place, it is warm there, and Alex is home...

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

Yaay! It was relatively simple, yaay! Now that it's afternoon, you'll likely get a solar heating boost and will gain on the heat curve/race. Good luck with Celebration!

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

It was about 40 degrees here the other day and that's quite warm. Very warm.

Oh, you're talking Farenheit. Doh!

I still don't understand why you seppos want to have winter in the middle of summer. Sheesh! :)

KWDS 5 here looks like being the first week in July. Remember: July in Australia is *cold*. Not like January in Boston, but it *is* winter, or what passes for winter out here (if it's in Canberra we may even get a little bit of frost). Plan accordingly.

???

[richenza.livejournal.com]

what's a seppo?

Re: ???

[vonstrassburg.livejournal.com]

seppo = australian slang for "american".

yank.
tank.
septic tank.
seppo.