Presently unheated
Mar. 26th, 2019 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcOur heating went out on Sunday afternoon. Today's news on the issue is that the engineer confirmed our address so he could have a part sent here; with luck it replaces whatever is defective. The house has an old heating system and I suspect it could do with being wholly replaced. It's one of those where the young chap turns up and grows increasingly puzzled then telephones the wise old men of his employer. However, this time the heating managed to go for well over a year without breaking down which is better than usual. I imagine that we have an unsaid deal with our landlords where we try not to ask much of each other: I fix the minor issues myself and bother them only about what is beyond my ability and they don't raise the rent or nitpick about trivia. I occasionally test my carbon monoxide detectors that I station near the mysterious heating devices.
Fortunately the weather is not as cold as it was. The house is relatively modern, so insulated, and the local climate is temperate. Being colder indoors reminded me of my childhood: our house in Cornwall had no cavity walls and, for the first few years, no central heating. I remember getting up in the morning to ice on the inside of my bedroom window; I would stand in front of an electric fan heater for a couple of minutes in getting dressed; it was okay. Ohioan winters would get much colder: our house there was built shortly after the civil war and also had no cavity walls. Even with the furnace burning propane at an expensive rate the house remained quite cold. As I did then, I now have a blanket over my clothes in the evenings. Between that and my reading glasses I feel like an old man.
I have been finding that having a few extra blankets on my bed means that I still feel warm at night. Fortunatelymst3kmoxie has crocheted us a range of blankets. I have been skipping my workouts this week as I can't shower afterward but I previously got twelve consecutive days in so that is okay. Indeed, I think the heating died toward the end of my shower after Sunday's workout. Fortunately for me we have showers at work.
Having an emergency call out meant that while the guy was here anyway I could also show him around the clear signs of a water leak or two in our plumbing so that he will be able to discuss that work with our landlords. They should care more than I as the water still flows fine for me, it just slowly rots their house away too; I try to keep them informed.
Fortunately the weather is not as cold as it was. The house is relatively modern, so insulated, and the local climate is temperate. Being colder indoors reminded me of my childhood: our house in Cornwall had no cavity walls and, for the first few years, no central heating. I remember getting up in the morning to ice on the inside of my bedroom window; I would stand in front of an electric fan heater for a couple of minutes in getting dressed; it was okay. Ohioan winters would get much colder: our house there was built shortly after the civil war and also had no cavity walls. Even with the furnace burning propane at an expensive rate the house remained quite cold. As I did then, I now have a blanket over my clothes in the evenings. Between that and my reading glasses I feel like an old man.
I have been finding that having a few extra blankets on my bed means that I still feel warm at night. Fortunately
mst3kmoxie has crocheted us a range of blankets. I have been skipping my workouts this week as I can't shower afterward but I previously got twelve consecutive days in so that is okay. Indeed, I think the heating died toward the end of my shower after Sunday's workout. Fortunately for me we have showers at work.Having an emergency call out meant that while the guy was here anyway I could also show him around the clear signs of a water leak or two in our plumbing so that he will be able to discuss that work with our landlords. They should care more than I as the water still flows fine for me, it just slowly rots their house away too; I try to keep them informed.
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Date: 2019-03-27 02:17 am (UTC)Also, Florida homes are built to hold the cool, and we don't have central heat, so in the winter, the house stays cool. We use radiating heaters in the bedroom and bathroom, but otherwise the house is cooler than the outdoors at times. (sigh)