The furnace man is never going to come, is he?

[eyesroll]

Well, technically, the boiler man.

The boiler in this house is original to its construction (c. 1920). It was, at some point, retrofit for natural gas. It originally burned coal. Recently, my landlord's insurance company told him to replace it, and any pipes associated with it, and all of the electrical (to be subcontracted by the heating company) or else this place is uninsurable and thus unrefinance-able.

So, I am waiting for the boiler man to show up so I can let him in to write an estimate. He told me between 4 and 4:30. It is now 4:45. At 5 I call.

My landlord takes $25 a month off my rent for me to handle this sort of crap, and most months, I don't actually do anything. So it's a good deal. Still. It's nice out and I'm stuck here.

Grr.

[XemaSab]

1. The title of this thread

left me expecting a dirty joke! :(

[Beware the Beast Man]

2. Well, cold cause shrinkage, doesn't it?

[tigereye]

3. that's cuz he got too hot!!

sorry. Now you know why I don't tell jokes for a living. ;)

:hi:

[eyesroll]

4. Sigh.

"I'm running way behind. Can we reschedule?"

[tigereye]

5. at least it isn't MLK day and 0 degrees

which is when our ancient furnace inevitably fails...

[eyesroll]

6. Yeah, my old one died at 3 am on a 0 degree night.

This one's still, scarily, working, but it's costing me an obscene amount of money to heat my place.

[Chicago Democrat]

7. The furnace guy wants to sell me a 4500 dollar new furnace

cause the one I got is 20 years old.


I'm definately getting a second opinion.

[tigereye]

9. ha ha ha

ours is 40! Almost every part has been replaced.

[sbj405]

8. Funny. I called for an appointment today. They said between 12 and 5

Great. I get to waste my whole day :-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Oh, geez, that was your furnace guy?

I'm sorry, I got hungry again.