We're getting a new Furnace!
OK, this is the last major project on the house for a while (outside of doing SOMETHING about that deck, but that will have to wait until spring)
We're getting a new furnace and water heater!
The new furnace, which will replace BIG BLUE, the original 1956 oil burner, is a pretty little thing, and quite petite compared to its predecessor. The new water heater is a brutish thing, but that is pretty much expected of water heaters, isn't it?
The current water heater, a stubby angry-looking electric model, sits glowering underneath the basesment stairs in it's own dark little cave. The new one, a stylish gas model, will come out of the shadows and have a nice little window it can peek out of from time to time.
While I'm not at all sentimental about the water heater, I must admit that I shall miss BIG BLUE. He's loud and clumsy and rather ineffective, and the "oil man" says that he could die AT ANY MINUTE or last for ANOTHER THIRTY YEARS (actually, that could be said about almost everyone I know), but he does have something of an ersatz charm. You just don't see blue furnaces anymore.
Oh well. Time, as they say, marches on.
We're getting a new furnace and water heater!
The new furnace, which will replace BIG BLUE, the original 1956 oil burner, is a pretty little thing, and quite petite compared to its predecessor. The new water heater is a brutish thing, but that is pretty much expected of water heaters, isn't it?
The current water heater, a stubby angry-looking electric model, sits glowering underneath the basesment stairs in it's own dark little cave. The new one, a stylish gas model, will come out of the shadows and have a nice little window it can peek out of from time to time.
While I'm not at all sentimental about the water heater, I must admit that I shall miss BIG BLUE. He's loud and clumsy and rather ineffective, and the "oil man" says that he could die AT ANY MINUTE or last for ANOTHER THIRTY YEARS (actually, that could be said about almost everyone I know), but he does have something of an ersatz charm. You just don't see blue furnaces anymore.
Oh well. Time, as they say, marches on.
posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay @ Wednesday, February 15, 2006
1 Comments:
At 9:09 AM,
Sylvia O'Stayformore said…
You could out one of your artifical logs on the floor in front of it and pretend it's coal. That would be sweet. OR perhaps get a coal bucket and dress the area to look old school. OR just put up a decorative screen. Brini Maxwell would know. Have you subscrided to her podcast yet? You really must.
Sylv
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