Nothing like a good slow news day.........Progress here, but slow, slow, slow.................... Getting awfully close. Insulation and drywall this week, then hit the switch and turn on the power and install the Hot Dawg heater. Got the driveway base in this weekend (thanks, Mother nature!) Just need one good dry day in the next few weeks to bring out the W30 and the L69. Then 3 new engines to install and enough work for me for the next 5 years. (They're never really "done".)
Looks like this should have been on one of those Bob Vila shows on TV---"Daves Old/New Garage". Patton
HD75 60,000 BTU. Garage is built just like a house (fully insulated and drywalled, walls are on 16 inch centers, trusses are on 24 inch centers. Ceilings are flat (10 foot) except for the three skylights and the tunnels up to them. Learned something today. Skylights do no good when covered with snow.
Dave's *into* making igloos. This picture was taken before the snow flew, so he wanted to try to build one outta gravel. He couldn't get the entrance hole to "take", so he abondoned the project early ...... :laugh:
GOD DAMN FURNACE ..... anyways .... Well Dave you're better off than me right now in the "heat" department .... The heat in my garage is SURE AS HELL working better than the heat in my house !! :af: The whole f'in weekend I've been manually lighting it because the ignitor took a $hit - - AGAIN ! I replaced it at the end of October '03, and the GD thing went bad already !! This is about the fifth ignitor in 3 years. The friggin things are $50 each, and I'm buyin' 'em like Big Macs !! So today, I get with my heating-n-cooling buddy at work. He goes at lunch to get one for me at his price ($20 vs. $50). I put the damn thing in when I get home to my 52* house........ NOTHING !! The stupid thing doesn't even glow. I guess that somehow the controller board took a dump in the same fail-swoop as this last ignitor ?? He's gonna get me a second one tomorrow, on the chance that this one is defective. I swear that I am gonna be self-taught in HVAC by the time I get done with this stupid-ass furnace. And the dumb thing is not that old - - that's the real pisser ! I've got stuff I need to be doing out in the garage - - and here I am dicking around with domestic stuff like this ..... ou: If you see my flaming ass shooting up like a rocket-ship in the night sky - - you'll know that it was a manual furnace start .... gone awry ....... (...hey - - that rhymes ....)
Casey, I hear you, my furnace ignitor took a hit, many years ago, and it still takes over 30 seconds to ignight, and this furnace is 24 yrs old! My garage furnace, yeah, I have one, compared to some people wouldn't ignight a yr ago in October, I went out there in the early spring and the stupid thing took off and ran, and I'd been goofing off all winter not going out there, I even took an electric ceramic heater out there just in case and the stupid furnace(Lenox) decided to work! HVAC not that complicated but scary when you are working with GAS! R
Do you think that there is any Michigan law that says that you can't run your furnace at MAX - - possibly until the wallpaper peels off the walls ? I hate getting up at 1:00 am to re-light it. Maybe if I just bring the ambient room temp up to about 90* ..... it will maintain until I go to work tomorrow morning ..... :grin: Cindy's parakeets - - Female: CAM ..... Male: SHAFT sure are gettin' *frisky* as the temp rises ..... :Brow: They'll think they're in Guatamala by about midnight ....... :beer
I take the Lazy Mans approach,I buy a service contract once a year that covers the oil burner furnace and the hot water heater in my house. I have to call them at least 3 times during the winter months,Nov-April. Anytime theres a problem,at least 3 times a season,they come and fix it!! Pretty soon I'll have a completely re-built system from All the stuff they have replaced. Cost is $225.00 a year,But I don't have to do anything but call.they come right out within 2 hours and fix it for me. They also come once a year to Service it,change filters check ignitors,replace jets,etc. It still goes on the fritz every winter,I think I'm getting the better part of the deal,Finally:TU: :Smarty:
OOOOOOOOh ..... that is a good deal !! :TU: I like the Lazy Mans approach. Quote: "I'm the one in the La-Z-Boy with the umbrella drink and the checkbook ...... Is it fixed yet ?" 2 hour response time ? That's better than our 7x24 - 4 hr response time for our computer systems at work ! Wouldn't that be a hoot if I could get my crap-hole furnace fixed quicker than our multi-million dollar data center !!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: PS - - 79* in the house and climbing .... Until the toilet starts boiling, or they run out of natural gas at DTE, that damn furnace is runnin' full-tilt-boogie until I go to bed ......... :bglasses:
Woodburners I have a woodburning stove in the basement here that has been running constant since Thanksgiving. Did the same thing in my last house. VERY toasty down there and nice warm floors up here. Main furnace doesn't come on that often (except at night when I turn down the dampers on the stove) as we leave the door open to downstairs. Guess I'm OK until I run out of wood. That won't be for a while. Little messy with the firewood and ashes, but not that bad. HVAC is relatively simple even in the cars. I had them fooled at Ford for 20 years!:grin:
A bad outbound neutral on the controller board. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ---- :af: Controller board is only $150 ....... :af: :af: :af: I'm just gonna duct my torpedo heater into the house ..... it's gotta be cheaper !!! ou:
Sounds like a maintenance contract is what you need. Or send Cindy to HVAC repair school. She could use the cube truck as the parts inventory and service vehicle. You could then write off the truck. :Brow:
Gotta get you guys to move South where a garage heater is a luxury item. Air Conditioning is more important!! Heat with a kerosene heater in case of emergency. John
Grrrrr .... I took the old controller module apart. OF COURSE, it is one lousy solder track that cooked thru the melt hole on the PC board !!! I could jumper-wire it, and have a spare, I guess ........ Or, I could put the whole mess under the rear tire of my truck, and smash it into a gillion pieces .... :beer My luck - it would puncture the tire somehow ...... ou:
Pertronics Isn't there a Pertroniks conversion for this? :laugh: You still running points in your furnace controller, too?
