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QUESTION:As some of you know, my cottage flooded. Good news is that the
cleaning team has gotten the carpet and kitchen floor up and the wood,
so far, looks ok - a work in progress as it dries. The insulation,
also so far as tested, is only ruined behind the pipe that burst.
Our next problem was that the furnace has just about died on us.
Perfect timing isn't it? At any rate, talked to the Propane company
we have last night for quite a while. Seems they really can't put a
new furnace where the old one is (I have no idea, first 10 minutes
husband was talking to him before I picked up the extension).
Nonetheless, to jury rig it (with a Rheem) right now would cost us
about $6,000. Husband wants to put furnace up in the attic when we
move over there in a little over a year. Good idea this man says, that
will cost $8,000. Do we have that at our fingertips - nope !
This man then tells us as a backup (hoping the original furnace will
plod along some more) we can put in a ventless heater. We can then
move it out to the garage we will build. Fine and dandy till I talked
to the cleaning man this morning and he suggested strongly that we go
with a monitor heater instead. He says he has it in his house which is
right on the water, his son's restaurant and his mom's condo in
Kennebunk. I'm going over there next week and he'll take me to these
places to see how it all works.
We will still put a furnace up in the attic when we move over there
and then move the temp heater out to the garage.
ANSWER: It's always one thing or another.... just a thought. This information may
shed some light on the 'why' of the freeze up. The furnace could have been
losing efficiency and thereby ran its self out of gas before the gas company
delivered on their automatic delivery plan or didn't run out at all and just
quit one night and the restart was thought to be needed due to no gas....
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