New England B.S. Thread

You can replace just the power vent on a boiler or furnace.
I hate the K1 unit we have for a boiler right now. K1's pricey, I hate looking at the tank outside, and I have to worry about hitting it when I plow. The problem is that the boiler itself and all of its parts work perfectly, so I can't yet justify the cost of replacing it with something else.
However, if ANYTHING goes wrong on the boiler, I'm yanking that sucker out and getting something designed this century

 

Yeah but when it's blowing soot and oil around that's not good..and it wasn't visible. Took forever to clean the walls..and my poor cat who slept by the heater..

 

Damn, I wasn't aware of that... I want one of those old cast iron wood stoves. I want to put a stone slab under it and behind it so that whole thing just holds heat. If there's a ton of BS I have to go through to get one installed, I'll likely just scrap the whole thing. Damn rules and regs

 

Gross, lol.
Our first house was a foreclosure with people who smoked like chimneys (or leaky power vents ).
Took us forever to scrub the walls clean, even with the steam cleaner.

 

Ya it is a space and clearance issue, at least in my town. The FD had a check off sheet that had to be met before I could proceed. So I needed the FD's and the building inspector's approval.

 

This was probably worse..just an oily base that took about 5-6 times to remove. We had to repaint one room too.

 

X2 on the pellet stove. We have 2. We only run the one in the first floor. No longer have a real need for the one in the basement. Used to have coal actually I still have the stove in the basement not hooked up. Pellet stoves are cleaner. And easier to store the fuel. Just stack the bags up. Where as coal we had a truck back up and fill the silo in the basement that resulted in a fine black silt everywhere. The big downside is no power no heat. Unless you have a generator.

 

I'm not a creep. I don't take pics of girls walking by. I just enjoy the view.

Neither would I...

Refer to first quoted post. ^^

 

Selfish!

 

New power vent motor, back in business. And by business, I mean I have heat again. I wish I knew it was going to shit the bed, I would have just bought one and replaced it myself. Took like 20 minutes to change the motor out.

 

Did you buy a spare for next time?

 

haha, i should. I don't think they're that expensive. If I would have known I would have just done it myself. A matter of removing like 8 nuts, pulling the motor out of the housing, un-hooking power/ground, repeat in reverse. It was getting a little louder than normal, but not crazy like it was going to fail. Hindsight 20-20 and such.

 

I hear ya, I had my heat go out on Christmas Eve last year. I had to call the oil company to make a call to my house. Turned out, it was a $50 electronic part that caused the problem, cost me $300 to have it diagnosed and replaced.

 

I was just at a LOWES looking at these different wood/ pellet/ etc options. Theres even a $300 tax break if you get a wood burning one right now. ]]

Got the oil tank filled 250gal..

 

And I bet they didn't even have the courtesy to use lube, just went it dry...

 

Ouch. I just have 188 gal this morning, ~$685. That put a hurting on the butt hole for sure.

 

Natural gas saves your ass

 

O, and if anyone needs sliders the BAMF 80" ones are on sale today...