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
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