Something fishy? (2)
Yesterday we had the plumber visiting to check for gas-leaks. He didn’t find any which is a good thing, of course, but meant we had to dig further. Meanwhile I moved the bathroom heater thingy to my office and when keeping the door closed it actually managed to keep the room at a decent temperature. It probably helps that the outside temperature isn’t below freezing point like it was a few days earlier and although one of the boys commented that it was a bit cold, this morning, the house held on to its remaining warmth pretty well.
Today we had someone over to inspect the furnace. After some checking and mumbling and grumbling, he checked the pipe to the chimney. Whoa. It was clogged up with rocks’n’stones’n'crud! Well, yes, that would explain why the fumes were going into the house instead of into the chimney and out, wouldn’t it? Although he feared that it would be closed up all the way, he started clearing it up and after a bit of work he could actually see daylight around the corner of the pipe. Yay.
After putting everything back together testing revealed that the airflow was now in the right direction and while he recommends to replace the old furnace in the not-so-long-run, whatever not-so-healthy bits come out won’t be bothering us, now!