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We're roasting
Someone came from the oil company today to give our furnace its annual cleaning. He told Teri that we needed to have our chimney cleaned out professionally. Another expense.
But what's worse is that when I got home, it was nearly 80° upstairs. The thermostat was turned to 63°, but the temperature was much, much higher. It was like walking into a wall of heat as I climbed the stairs. The furnace has been running often (although not continuously), and the upstairs heating ducts are hot even though I turned the thermostat all the way down two hours ago.
I don't know what's happening. I'm soaked in sweat. It's so damned hot that I had to open the windows all over the house, even though it's nearly freezing outside and there's snow on the ground. I'll call the oil company tomorrow. But right now, the furnace seems to be running amok. And I can't sleep with the real possibility that the furnace will overheat in the night and burn the whole house down.
So I just threw the switch and turned off the furnace completely. I suppose it will get cold over the next few hours - I'll close the windows soon against that possibility - but that's better than burning to death in our beds.
Sigh. Why can't anyone do ANYTHING right?
But what's worse is that when I got home, it was nearly 80° upstairs. The thermostat was turned to 63°, but the temperature was much, much higher. It was like walking into a wall of heat as I climbed the stairs. The furnace has been running often (although not continuously), and the upstairs heating ducts are hot even though I turned the thermostat all the way down two hours ago.
I don't know what's happening. I'm soaked in sweat. It's so damned hot that I had to open the windows all over the house, even though it's nearly freezing outside and there's snow on the ground. I'll call the oil company tomorrow. But right now, the furnace seems to be running amok. And I can't sleep with the real possibility that the furnace will overheat in the night and burn the whole house down.
So I just threw the switch and turned off the furnace completely. I suppose it will get cold over the next few hours - I'll close the windows soon against that possibility - but that's better than burning to death in our beds.
Sigh. Why can't anyone do ANYTHING right?