I'm sure some of you regulars have noticed the seasonal pickup in activity here in the boiler room has already started. It's like clockwork. The end of August always brings throngs of new and old users alike back to hearth.com to ponder how we'll all deal with the coming heating season.
Come October 1st there will no doubt be 2 or 3 threads started by folks scrambling to get their systems finished before it gets "really cold". Round about mid November we'll have a few users wondering how to find and/or stop that pesky slow leak of smoke coming from their boiler door. Inevitably by December 1st there will be AT LEAST one new gasser user that is painfully learning the "wet wood" lesson and he'll wonder if it's worth it to burn store-bought 2x4's for the rest of the season. Things will be pretty quiet in January until somebody out there blows a pressure valve or melts some pex because they either left their lower door open during start-up (and forgot) or had a circ pump take a crap. In February we'll start comparing cord counts and ask the question "when is the winter REALLY half over". And finally, come March/April, many of us will start talking about how much longer we think we're going to burn and when the Spring cleaning will take place.
What say you, boiler room? How do those wood piles look? Are we ready? After last winter I hope everyone had plenty of wood left over! I know I did. I'm looking forward to that first fire but I'm also shocked at how fast this summer went. It's Labor day weekend already. Holy smokes...
Come October 1st there will no doubt be 2 or 3 threads started by folks scrambling to get their systems finished before it gets "really cold". Round about mid November we'll have a few users wondering how to find and/or stop that pesky slow leak of smoke coming from their boiler door. Inevitably by December 1st there will be AT LEAST one new gasser user that is painfully learning the "wet wood" lesson and he'll wonder if it's worth it to burn store-bought 2x4's for the rest of the season. Things will be pretty quiet in January until somebody out there blows a pressure valve or melts some pex because they either left their lower door open during start-up (and forgot) or had a circ pump take a crap. In February we'll start comparing cord counts and ask the question "when is the winter REALLY half over". And finally, come March/April, many of us will start talking about how much longer we think we're going to burn and when the Spring cleaning will take place.
What say you, boiler room? How do those wood piles look? Are we ready? After last winter I hope everyone had plenty of wood left over! I know I did. I'm looking forward to that first fire but I'm also shocked at how fast this summer went. It's Labor day weekend already. Holy smokes...
Must be a veteran of hearth.com..........LOL
