Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Did I mention that Mr. Perfect is, well, perfect?

November has landed with a bang. It has snowed, it is cold, and it the weather isn't going anywhere for a good five months (ya gotta love Utah). On top of that, the last two or three weeks we've noticed that something wasn't right with the furnace. It would heat the house to 63.5, sometimes 64.5, but it wouldn't go any warmer despite being set at 70.

Mr. Perfect said that last year he had to reset it a few times before it started running consistently. This year, nothing doing. We reset it, and it would climb to...wait for it, wait for it...62.5. Brrrr! We even moved the new water heater, thinking that having it so close to the heater, and thus changing the line of the gas escape tubing, might be affecting it. Nothing doing. Still wasn't getting above 65.

Yesterday morning, I climbed out of bed and read the thermostat: 60.5. We couldn't live like this for the entire winter. So, Mr. Perfect called our handy-dandy fix-it guy at 9:30 last night. After a few questions, Mr. Perfect had most of the information he needed to fix the furnace (clean the burner sensor), just not all the details (where the burner sensor lives inside the furnace).

That's why we pay the big bucks for the internet, right? I located a site that had all the details for cleaning a Lennox furnace burner sensor, and thirty minutes later it was a done deal. Guess what the temperature was this morning when I left for work? 69 and still climbing. *sigh*

Don't you just love a man who can get things done? And the hand-dandy fix-it guy won't be coming over to charge us $100 to do it. Actually, we like him a lot and really appreciate the fact that he provided the information we needed over the phone so that we don't have pay him $100 to do it.

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