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I can't feel my nose any more. Is that bad?It was 10 below nada when I woke up this morn. It's currently 1 below. And we still have no heat.
Space heaters on the pipes and critters to keep them from freezing. Lots of clothes on us.
It would have been fixed yesterday afternoon but......there's this problem.
Bob and I got pissed! It's a matter of principle. The guy (who is supposed to have parts and such) came out. Told us the problem is the same damn thing that we asked them to just replace last year and they talked us out of it. Then he disappeared into his truck for 20 minutes.
When he came back he said none of their reps or their warehouse had the part. That Traine would have to open up their store to provide it. It would be $90 for the repair and another $75 for them opening the store on Sunday. (OK. We can see that. No problem.) Then came the good part. There would be an $80 charge for him going to pick it up. NO!
It's a 10 dollar part! we were willing to pay the ninety for service. willing to pay the 75 to open the store, even though they should keep these things on the trucks. (very common part) but to charge us 80 bucks to go get it. I don't think so Tim.
Bob and I decided we'd rather freeze our asses right to the sofa than become 2 more victims hangin offa the belt of the heating and cooling industry. 6 degrees and they KNOW they have you. The look on the guys face when we said, "Nope. Forget it." was worth my numb nose and blue fingers.
Bob has located someone who will sell us the part (assuming that's really what's wrong) and he's on his way now to get it.
It was cold as hell last night. Would I do it again? You bet! Sometimes you just have to stand up and say, "no thank you. I don't care to be screwed over today."
I have to go wash my hair now. Screw me! That's gonna hurt! LOL!
3:15 (30 hours without heat. Outside temp 9 degrees)
This just keeps getting better and better.
Our new guy just left. Our furnace is a fire hazard. Turns out the heat exchanger is rusted all the way through. Something Airtron (the company we've called out every single friggin year since we moved in here 6 years ago) never bothered to check.
So, we need a new furnace.
We will be without heat until we can get one.
Good for you. Do you have a local YMCA you can go visit, warm up and TAKE A WARM SHOWER?
I find it interesting that you have to pay to open the store. That and how much sounds insane to me. God that would have hurt to tell them to go away but I think I would have had to join you on that.
Good luck on the "part".
Ugh oh, guys. According to the local news we are about to get hit with one of the worst winter storms we've seen in a long while but first, we're gonna drop in temps even lower. And the part Bob got....did NOT fix the furnace which means...the guy was wrong anyway!
Webby slept on the bottom of his cage last night staying as close to the little heater I had for him as he could
Angela, still alive and staying mobile to avoid freezing to my desk chair. LOL! It's so cold out here that they're putting out all manner of warnings. We talked to one fella and if we have to get a new furnace, it has to be ordered. OY! and let me add...VEY! They're calling this particular round of weather, "the artic blast". Niiiice.
Wagon, you got that right. Something that doesn't require electricity. Cuz where I live we have outages. One thing I just thought of tho. My neighbor across the street also owns an independant electric company (no idea what you call them) but I bet if it came down to it, he'd get us a generator.
Somebody else is looking at it right now. We'll see how it goes but so far the furnace outage of 2007 appears to be a great mystery to everyone. LMAO! Only at my house.
PS. All the humans here are so over dressed with layers that we look like giant zits with legs.
Lucy seems comfy as a duck in a pond. How she can stand it is beyond me. She loves it out there. I'm making her hold her urine right now cuz I don't hardly believe she needs to go 4 times in one hour. I'm guessing she just wants to eat snow again.
Sign, it's gonna cost us. Not as bad as we thought though.
One of the downsides to buying an older house. We've already replaced the roof, water heater, water softner thingy, all the electrical wiring. Geez LOO eeze. It never stops. That's why we try to do as much of the work ourselves as we can. Otherwise we'd be eating beans all the time and I'd end up blowing Bob into the next county one night.
I mean blowing in a bad, gassy, way. Mind outa the gutter, people.
btw. Bob actually believed that people get naked and make wild monkey love to warm up. LOL! What woman in her right mind is gonna take off her protective clothing annnnd the bed clothes when it's FREEZING in the bedroom?
My goosebumps had goosebumps. My teeth were chattering and Bob says...I know what will warm you up. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha! He says they always do it on James Bond. MEN!
Bravo!!! Send the jerk packing and blog like a crazy, frozen woman. You'll get your new furnace and then you won't have to worry about it.
Call the Attorney Generals office, comsumer complaint division. I have the number at work if you want it. What, he was gonna replace a part and let you guys burn up the following weekend.
Let's all write letter's.
I think furnaces are bad news. My old one had the same problem over and over again. I did not know because it did not happen while I lived here. So when they came out to fix my furnace the first guy was clueless and, after a repair, beat feet as fast as he could claiming it was the thermostat that was now the problem. WRONG! I called them back and someone else came out and he right away knew what it was, did not have the part, got the part and fixed it. Thank god.
Then I talked to someone that was doing the heating and cooling in my BILs house and he said he could get a furnace and air unit for me and put it in. He got the furnace but never installed it. My BIL actually put it in but I never did get the air unit in. Now find someone that will touch that. Maybe someone from work. At least it is been behaving itself now.
Furnaces are just trouble waiting to happen. I think you need a wood or pellet burner or a fireplace so this never happens again. Buurrr...
Excuse me! Did you happen to catch the Budweiser commercial last night? They had Crabs. I don't think anything else needs to be said about your name.
You are Crab! Case settled. Point made. Nothing left to debate.
Crab or Manny's OLDEST sister. Your choice babe.
OLDEST SISTER! Can you really live with that? I guess you'll have to, but...In your face every single day for the rest of your life? You are stuck with it, blame mom, but do you really want to be reminded of it day after day after long ass day?
At 2/05/2007 9:20 PM, 
Dan
Wow you too? Thrusday and Friday we froze our buts off. I told hubby we had to do something cause we couldnt bring a new baby into the cold cold house. The other kids just piled on clothes. So he went into the basement when I went to pick up our daughter and baby and its the same thing thats been wrong almost from the day we bought it. Yep you got it the heating element. Hubby rigged it up somehow and got the house warm by the time I brought baby and daughter home. Every time we call for service they ask what kind we have and when we say westinghouse they all say the same thing oh we dont fix those. We need to replace it and probably before we sell this house but dang they cost an arm and leg. Ive got my fingers crossed that this will work till we get warmer weather. Otherwise we may have to sell house just to pay for a new furnace.
At 2/06/2007 11:02 AM, Unknown
I was watchin a little of abc News last night and heard about the 'heatwave' that is currectly going through the northern states lol. A reporter was reporting from Chicago and you could see that it was definitely cold. Schools closed down around the midwest and vehicles not starting up in the morning. It didn't look good at all. I guess it's still cold today?
UPDATE FROM THE FROZEN TUNDRA.
11:45 am and still no heat. We have now gone 4 days without heat other than the little electric heaters we're using to keep Webby and the little dogs alive and keep our pipes from freezing.
All over different parts of the city they are working on broken water lines and junk that have bursted from the cold.
We bought another heater last night. Plugged it in and it immediately started smoking and sparking. I assumed this possibly could be a bad thing so I unplugged it and took it back to the store.
The furnace guys just got here. It will take them 2 or 3 hours to hook up the new heater if all goes well. We should have heat by tonight.
All in all, it hasn't been so bad. Çold but survivable if you wear a lot of clothes. The worst part is my nose and fingers. Mostly the nose cause they don't make socks for noses. I tried sticking one of those thermal heating pads on it but I got laughed at so after 5 or 6 hours I took it off again.
It's lots colder in here since those guys got here for some reason.
PS. Our furnace was putting out carbon monoxide. I wonder if this means I'll be more perky with a new one?
At 2/06/2007 1:26 PM, Mouthy Girl
OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No heat in this weather is crazy...but I have to stand by your and Bob's decision to NOT take it up the rear end!
I had two plumbers in my house last week. I was home on a snow day. They couldn't have been nicer or more down to earth. I wish I could send my heating guy out to you.
When we had him converting our house to gas and had no heat for two days, he brought three of his own personal space heaters over so we wouldn't freeze!
Thank God it sounds like you are going to survive this one.
OK, here is what I want you to do this week. I want you to go either put batteries in your carbon monoxide detector or I want you to go to the store and buy one. If you are buying one then get a "Kidde Plug-In Digital Carbon Monoxide Detector". It will run you $45 to $50 for it but it is among the best detectors there are and they work, I had mone go off and when the fire department showed up they said they have had a lot of false readings from other units but never from a Kidde. I think that is a pretty good endoresment if you ask me.
So now lets get this straight, I want you to have a working carbon monoxide detector in you home before the end of the week. Got it? I hope so. This is serious and so worth every penny.
Please?
I hope you are all toasty by the end of the day.
dzer, don't temp me, baby.
Tina, yes. Lots of headaches. No detectors. Fortunately that furnace had a safety feature on it. There were holes rusted all the way through the inside of the furnace. Something Airtron missed for the past 6 years because they never looked that far into the furnace.
Buddah, the guy who's putting this one in for us is just like your guys. He owns his own company and he's been awesome. They're still working on it and we don't have water now. LOL! But that's temporary cause they have to install a new dehumidifier. It's 11 degrees out now so that's toasty compared to what's been. And it's snowing like crazy.
G, what's Manny right about?
Barman, writing it down right now. Kinda scary we had that and didn't know. And what's REALLY scary is, we were getting to the point where we couldn't stay awake at night watching tv for hardly any time at all. Oh wait....that could just be us. LOL!
I'm hoping they're almost done but...there is heat coming from the vents as of right now. When they first turned it on a second ago, it smoked a little and you could smell heat. WOOT!
I'm gonna be tickled silly to get this one behind us. I've been fretting over the bird and the older dog. She's very tiny and frail.
At 2/06/2007 4:25 PM, deb
At 2/06/2007 6:30 PM, MilkMaid
Iris, Ethel emailed me and her internet chat box is clogged up with vienna sausages. I think she means spam. Anyway, she can't post but said to tell you that you and your tonsils are blasting enough hot air to melt all the damn glaciers in Iceland. So, just turn your saggy ass a little to the left and thaw out poor Crabby.
Love,
Ethel Roberson Rm 12
Came here via ... Dan I think?
Holy Crap girl. How in God's name can you stand to be that friggin cold for that long? Do the space heaters work okay for ya? Lord have mercy. I wonder if YOU could have just gone to get that stupid part, but from the sound of it, it wouldn't have worked anyway. Check with your local electric company. The ones here, you can get a new system through TVA, finance it, and get a deduction for going electric, or something like that. Anyway, worth a try, huh?
First of all, just let me say, I can NOT believe nobody wants me to be their half-naked slut. Milky gets all the attention!
Nick, that's a good reason to have pets, right there. Dogs body temps are 103. I kept Lucy real handy during the cold times. LOL!
Kept, electric mattress pad? I didn't even know they had such a thing. Oh yeah, I'll be getting one of those for certain.
Bina, I'm very happy you came! Keep coming back. We get a little nuts and out of control some days but we're never dangerous. LOL! Well, cept for G-man.
The space heaters kept us running at 47 in some rooms and 57 in others. Our focus there was to keep our pipes from blowing too and to protect the bird and our 18 year old Maltese. She's already arthritc, blind, and deaf. LOL! Then all of a sudden she finds herself in a deep freeze. Poor girl.
We woke up to......a heated house! How weird was that? I can't believe we adjusted to those freezy temps over time.
I am sooooo going to try out for Survivor. I just...... really wish I knew how to swim. Oh well...I'll fake it.
Electric mattress pads are the bomb. I got one a few years ago. I missed my water bed but it was bad for my back. What I missed was the heat of the bed.
The mattress pad allows me to turn on the heat and, after a little while, jump into a warm bed. I love that. Also there are those nights where I am over tired and I can get to shivering even when I jump in bed. The mattress pad fixes that right away. I love my matress pad. It even has a left and right side of the bed setting which, sadly, I do no take advantage of. :(
At 2/08/2007 5:06 PM, Spoony Quine
` We don't use our furnace either (which fills the room with gas), we just have a tiny heater-fan.
` Now I'm grateful for such a tiny apartment, because that's all we need!
` Of course now, it's getting warm enough to go without a coat anyway.
` PS you can be our half-naked slut in our tiny apartment! I don't know what we'd have you do, but you can at least be our slut.
Check your shoes before you leave.
good for you, I hear you on their scamming to get money, what a crock!!!