Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Tanks a Lot




These are the tanks in the utility room. They are the pressure tank for the well, the water softener and its brine tank, the hot water tank, and behind it the relief tank for the flooring controls (I think that's what its called). Anyway, they are now all working and we had heat in the house Thursday of last week. The electricians finished everything they needed to to get the plumber connected to fire up the floors, and the HRV was installed and balanced. So when we left the house Thursday evening, all systems were go.
We headed into Ottawa to run a series of appointments that night and were expecting to return Friday afternoon. But we stayed over Friday night and had dinner with friends and a warm big bed as it was a miserable rainy night. We returned Saturday morning to find the thermostat at 88 degrees!!! Someone must have forgotten to set it. Talk about feast or famine. We went from freezing in our little trailer to sweltering in our new house. So after a day of all the doors and windows open, it finally got down to 68 degrees and we really slept in there on Saturday night. By Sunday evening, it was a little chilly, so we thought we would attempt a little heat. Set the thermostat again and woke up to a warm 77 degrees. Hhmmm. A call to the electrician who returned and replaced the thermostat which was not recognising the signals from the boiler so we should be good to go now.