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Home decapitation for dummies
After work yesterday, I took the Suburban into town to pick up a load of freebie pallets from the railroad yards. Stacked them to the roof of the Subie, where they then threatened to slide forward through my skull every time I slowed down on the drive home.
Nice going, genius.
But the pallets and myself both made it home okay, so the Suburban is now packed with pallets and I'm all set for a weekend of heavy-duty yard cleaning. The pallets will be used as a ground layer for my woodshed, to keep the wood off the ground. At this point, I'm not planning on doing anything more elaborate than piling wood on the pallets and putting a tarp over it. The wood (odds and ends of lumber; cut-down trees) will be used to run the boiler later this winter.
Cleaning up the yard is going to be such a chore. Picking up the wood is the easy part; there's also all kinds of trash, and I don't mean useful trash either -- like piles of broken glass (where it looks like some windows got dropped, probably when they were building the place), scattered fiberglass insulation, stuff like that. Gonna be busy.
The weather's gone in just a few days from 80 degrees to 50 degrees. Since the house has no heat other than the boiler, I've been piling on the sweaters and shivering around inside. I'm thinking about installing a secondary heating system, like a little oil monitor heater, to use when it's too warm for the boiler but cool enough where a little bit of heat would be nice. This would also give me a backup heating system, in case something happens to the boiler. When it's 50 below zero, you can't just sit around waiting for a repairman to come out from town. I doubt if a single monitor could keep the house warm in 50 below, but it might be able to, and it would be nice to have a heating system that didn't depend on being fed every 8-12 hours.
Nice going, genius.
But the pallets and myself both made it home okay, so the Suburban is now packed with pallets and I'm all set for a weekend of heavy-duty yard cleaning. The pallets will be used as a ground layer for my woodshed, to keep the wood off the ground. At this point, I'm not planning on doing anything more elaborate than piling wood on the pallets and putting a tarp over it. The wood (odds and ends of lumber; cut-down trees) will be used to run the boiler later this winter.
Cleaning up the yard is going to be such a chore. Picking up the wood is the easy part; there's also all kinds of trash, and I don't mean useful trash either -- like piles of broken glass (where it looks like some windows got dropped, probably when they were building the place), scattered fiberglass insulation, stuff like that. Gonna be busy.
The weather's gone in just a few days from 80 degrees to 50 degrees. Since the house has no heat other than the boiler, I've been piling on the sweaters and shivering around inside. I'm thinking about installing a secondary heating system, like a little oil monitor heater, to use when it's too warm for the boiler but cool enough where a little bit of heat would be nice. This would also give me a backup heating system, in case something happens to the boiler. When it's 50 below zero, you can't just sit around waiting for a repairman to come out from town. I doubt if a single monitor could keep the house warm in 50 below, but it might be able to, and it would be nice to have a heating system that didn't depend on being fed every 8-12 hours.