2/24/2007
This whole home ownership thing is already over-rated. It is day one and frigid cold here in lovely b-more. And guess what. My house has no heat. Yesterday when this wasn't my house it had lots of heat, very comfortable nice warm heat, and now today that the house is mine. No heat. Nothing. Just lots of coldness. I'm not sure what I've done or threatened to do to this house that would have it behave so badly on it's first day as my house but I can tell that this is going to be a difficult relationship.
Luckily I have this great home warranty for the house so this no heat thing should be no big deal. The only problem being that when I called the warranty company they had no record of my home or anything. Going to closing at 3 o'clock on a Friday afternoon seems like a great idea until the process takes 3 hours and all of the entities involved in the process are closed when the final deal is done. So I had to wait until Monday to see if the paperwork had gone through in order to get my name into their system.
Luckily for me one of my co-workers at the BMA had been a residential HVAC repairman in a previous life and after a brief description from me of the boiler and the problem he was able to diagnose it and walk me through the process of getting it back up and running. I ventured back to the frozen tundra of my house that night and after a little cursing and fidgeting was able to get the boiler back up and running. Voila... heat returns to Windemere. The problem wasn't very serious, just a stuck flue damper (correctly diagnosed sight unseen by my co-worker I might add), but it was enough to stop the whole works.