So its getting close to the coooold new england winters that we all love so much. And our 30+ year old boiler doesn't look like it's doing too well. So our current project is to replace the aging giant. 3 quotes later and lots of number crunching, we've made our desicion. This is not exactly a do-it-yourself project (though I wish it was, it would save us some $$$) so we enlisted the help of our good friends at Petro. They are going to rip the old one out, and put in a nice new and shiny and efficient boiler to make our toes toasty and our water hot during the frigid winter months (and the other months too, of course). It's a big expense, but we'll save money every month in heating oil and the new boiler will be around for decades.
We've also sent two of our old chipping cast iron radiators out to be sandblasted. We sent the one from the sunroom and the one from the bathroom... they were the two most visible ones. The sunroom one had to be done because really, who wants to put a nasty, ugly, chipping, dirty, gross radiator in a brand newly redone sunroom. That's costing us about $150 a piece to SSPP (or in metal refinishing terms: strip-sand-prime-paint). They will done in two weeks, hopefully before it gets real cold. We'll post before and after pictures soon - they're gonna look great!
That's all for now!
Brad
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Long time
Hello all,
I know it's been a long time since our last post. Still working on the window trim in the sunroom. You know when you get very close to being finished with a project and you just can't seem to get your act together long enough to actually finish? We're there. Our next project isn't really blog worthy, but I'm sure there'll be pictures anyway once the project gets started. We're going to have the boiler replaced soon. Hopefully this'll mean less oil used over the winter. We hope everyone is well. And remember that you're always welcome to stop by. If you call first, there'll be snacks.
I know it's been a long time since our last post. Still working on the window trim in the sunroom. You know when you get very close to being finished with a project and you just can't seem to get your act together long enough to actually finish? We're there. Our next project isn't really blog worthy, but I'm sure there'll be pictures anyway once the project gets started. We're going to have the boiler replaced soon. Hopefully this'll mean less oil used over the winter. We hope everyone is well. And remember that you're always welcome to stop by. If you call first, there'll be snacks.
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