Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Update on Wood and Septic
Ah, I got Nick to light the propane fireplace last night. It was so warm and nice, but smelly and the heat went straight to the ceiling.
Its such a pain because we have to turn on/off the gas valve in the basement. It should be ok to leave on all the time, but if we do, the house smells like propane. So we keep it off until we use it.
We had it on for about an hour and it nicely took the chill out of the whole family room and kitchen area from about the waist up - to the ceiling.
Thinking about putting in a wood stove, I realized we really are fire bugs and like to tend the fire and see it, so a wood stove would just be silly and block out the view. Now we're thinking about converting the whole gas thing over to a true wood burning fireplace. Wonder what that will cost.
Meanwhile, down in the basement the breaker for the septic pump keeps tripping. We don't have high level, so what's up? We did get 9 inches of rain over the weekend and haven't seeen the sun since, with 2 more inches supposedly over last night into this afternoon.
So - call in the septic guy I guess. Cha-Ching again. THis is giving me panicked reminders of the time that the well pump got struck by lightning and it cost us 4 days without water and $4,000 to replace - Happy Father's day that was.
The joys of living in the country.
I'll write more about that another time, because there truly are some balancing joys.
Its such a pain because we have to turn on/off the gas valve in the basement. It should be ok to leave on all the time, but if we do, the house smells like propane. So we keep it off until we use it.
We had it on for about an hour and it nicely took the chill out of the whole family room and kitchen area from about the waist up - to the ceiling.
Thinking about putting in a wood stove, I realized we really are fire bugs and like to tend the fire and see it, so a wood stove would just be silly and block out the view. Now we're thinking about converting the whole gas thing over to a true wood burning fireplace. Wonder what that will cost.
Meanwhile, down in the basement the breaker for the septic pump keeps tripping. We don't have high level, so what's up? We did get 9 inches of rain over the weekend and haven't seeen the sun since, with 2 more inches supposedly over last night into this afternoon.
So - call in the septic guy I guess. Cha-Ching again. THis is giving me panicked reminders of the time that the well pump got struck by lightning and it cost us 4 days without water and $4,000 to replace - Happy Father's day that was.
The joys of living in the country.
I'll write more about that another time, because there truly are some balancing joys.
