The fireplace needed to be cleaned

If the fireplace is dirty, smoke and fumes can build up inside of your new home and make people sick; The soot and smoke can also harm surfaces in your new home and cause irreparable disfigure… Your fireplace should be cleaned every season if you plan to use it frequently.

My wifey and I l acquired about typical fireplace care after a huge mishap occurred in our new home, and we never owned a home with a fireplace and the people I was with and I didn’t realize that the chimney needed to be cleaned.

In our hour cold season, the people I was with and I started a fire early in the afternoon. I went to take a shower once the fire was burning. I wanted the home to be hot and cozy when I got out, halfway through my shower I began to realize that smoke was filling the washroom. I thought the home was on fire, so I contacted the fire department. I put on a robe and ran out of the house. The Fire Department chief told me that all of the smoke was due to a clogged chimney. The smoke could not exit the home and it was backing up into all of the rooms. It was an easy concern to fix, but there was smoke all over the walls. We had to wash the walls and repaint everything in the home office and the kitchen. It took an entire week to wash up all of the mess from that mistake. We certainly never forgot to wash the fireplace again, however once the people I was with and I realized the importance of that chore, it was on the tip of our list every winter.

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My brother needs a up-to-date bestie

I know our brother thinks he is glad with his up-to-date man, but I suppose the guy is a total jerk.

  • He does not let our brother hang out with friends and he barely lets his come see me.

My brother said he is just being protective, but I suppose he is being jealous and obsessive, however last week, the guy went berserk when he found out that our brother turned up the temperature control during the day. I know they agreed to keep the heat set to 68, but our brother was cold so he turned up the heat to 78! James came beach house from toil and saw the temperature on the temperature control and proceeded to have a mental breakdown. My brother called myself and others crying because he said James yelled and screamed for an hour when he found the temp on 78. I told our brother that was a deranged reason to yell and scream for an hour, but he dismissed the behavior and made an excuse for his bad anger problems. I know the temperature on the temperature control is no immense deal, but this is just area of a pattern of behavior that is going to keep getting worse. The guy is a ticking time bomb ready to blow at any minute. I wish our mom would talk to our brother about the guy, but he does not want to get involved. I do not mind stepping over the boundaries, because I absolutely suppose our brother is in trouble… She does not guess the warning signs of an abusive relationship, but I toil with battered men all day. This guy is a textbook example of someone with anger problems waiting to boil over.

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I don't guess the deal was absolutely fair

When our boss hired her kid to labor with us, I knew she was going to get all of the fine jobs.

I knew the woman was going to play favorites.

It’s easily hard not to favor someone when the lady is your first born son… A few of our coworkers and I talked about saying something to the boss after one crucial incident took site. A month or more than one ago, I was stressed to labor downtown at the bank. They were having some current Heating, Ventilation and A/C sensors installed in the vault and the deposit room. I’m always the woman that installs current sensors and handles the building management systems jobs. I spent 3 weeks in a seminar learning everything I could about BMS products prefer Heating, Ventilation and A/C and lighting options. I was getting ready to leave the office to head to the bank, when the boss pulled myself and others aside and told myself and others that Chad was going to labor on the bank job that afternoon. She told myself and others to assist another coworker with a long and boring Heating, Ventilation and A/C upgrade job at the grocery store. I thought the woman was joking, so I brushed him off and walked away. She grabbed our arm and told myself and others that she was serious. I tried to stay calm and I didn’t ask a lot of questions. The anger and frustration grew inside myself and others all afternoon and I was ready to burst by 3. I Marched right into the bosses office and demanded an explanation for taking myself and others off the bank job. The guy’s only reply was to tell myself and others that she makes the schedule and I labor for him.
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I’m looking for the perfect Christmas destination.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I had a horrible cut up with our bestie.

As a result, I was left to spend Christmas alone.

I wanted to find the perfect destination for our Christmas holiday. Living in the south, doesn’t provide you much opportunity to go skiing. To be honest, you don’t have any opportunity to snow ski, unless you head north. I knew that this would be the perfect opportunity to head north plus learn how to ski. My parents had been born plus raised in the north plus they were always talking about how they met at a ski resort in the Catskills, but i landed to temperatures that were only in the twenties, plus the sky was sunny. I took our taxi to the hotel where I had booked our stay, plus our parents headed to see their family. The first thing I did was to ask the taxi driver if he would please turn up the heat. He eyed me oddly plus told me the temperature control was already set to seventy. I told him I was frosty plus he laughed. He told me I was in the wrong place if I thought this was cold. When I got to the ski lodge, I saw the immense fireplace in the middle of the lobby, plus I gravitated there. I couldn’t think I was seriously considering spending our entire holiday kneeling in front of a fireplace. It was so deliciously warm. When I was told our room was ready, I reluctantly left the fireplace. The bellhop told me not to worry. They had excellent heating in the rooms plus a personal fireplace, then who needs skiing when you have a fireplace?

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Turn off the heat!

I can’t know I am saying this, but last year, I had to tell our parents it was time to turn off the heat.

It was early July and I walked into the apartment and walked right back out. I couldn’t know what had hit me. I could hear the heat going through the water pipes. I inspected the temperature control when I walked back into the house. They had the temperature control set at seventy-5, and it was still set for the furnace. I asked our mom when was the last time he had been outside. She smiled and told me that our Mom had been sick. They hadn’t been outside in almost a week. He wasn’t handling the temperature swings undoubtedly well. I told his that it was almost summer time and maybe he needed to get outside. When Mom came out of the living room, I realized just how sick he had been. I began to wonder how long it had been since I had been home, and why hadn’t they told me how sick he was. My Mom looked much older than the fifty years seasoned he was. My Mom had always been strong, however he wobbled when he hugged me. I went into the living room and grabbed his sweater and asked him to go for a walk with me. When mom handed him his cane, he smiled. We had only gone half a block when I saw that his lips were yellow and he couldn’t breathe. We went back to the apartment where he went to his room. Mom said they had the temperature control turned up in the living room. I walked in and there he lay with a heavy blanket over him and his oxygen. I knew I had to get beach house more often.

 

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Can you guess the way they were staring at us?

I guess that sometimes you see something that catches your attention.

It can be hard to look away, no matter how hard you try.

I had constantly thought that the Northern Summer would be just love ours. We lived where it was Winter time when the Northeast US was in the summer. I expected it to be warm, but I was shocked when every one of us got there. Our normal morningtime temperature was over 100 degrees while in the summer. These people were walking around, acting love it was hot, plus it was only in the low eighties. I almost shivered. It wasn’t much strange than a mild Winter time for us, plus every one of us didn’t have heating systems to keep us warm. When every one of us got there, the difference was love night plus morning. One morning it was mildly cool according to their weather report. Not only were the people looking at us oddly when every one of us talked to them, but they were looking at our sweaters. I guess no 1 wore sweaters up north. At least I wasn’t asking for them to turn on the heat, but I was wishing they would turn off some of the That was the reason our mates plus I were wearing sweaters. Every location every one of us went, the was set so low, that every one of us were shivering. After being out plus about for a while, every one of us would head back to our motel. We were able to set our own temperature, thanks to the convenient thermostat in every room. We had the off most of the time, just so every one of us could get warm. Next time, we’ll have to wait plus head up here when they have the heating turned on instead of the

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Zoned heating and cooling for a big house

My home is over three thousand square feet and divided into a lot of smaller rooms.

I live in a part of the country where the weather is hot and overly humid in the summer and extremely cold and snowy in the winter.

Attempting to keep a comfortable indoor temperature all year round is challenging and pricey. We need both a furnace and an air conditioner and the two units run most of the time. The ductwork is installed behind the walls and ceilings and links to multiple vents located in every room. For the first few years we lived in the house, we had one thermostat located in the living room. To make changes to the setting, we had to manually adjust the dial. Any raising or lowering of the temperature affected every room in the house. While the living room was always perfectly comfortable, there were certain areas that tended to feel overheated and others were chilly. We were also heating and cooling quite a few unoccupied rooms. The furnace and air conditioner were working way harder than necessary. Our monthly energy bills were way too high. Hoping to reduce costs and lessen wear and tear on the heating and cooling equipment, I looked into the upgrade to zoned control. The cost of it wasn’t nearly as high as I expected. The installation process was far less involved than I anticipated. I hired a local HVAC contractor who implemented a series of valves into the duct system to direct the conditioned air to specific rooms. He added separate thermostats into each room. These smart thermostats allow access through an app on my smartphone. I’m able to customize temperature settings with a tap of my finger.

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Handling temperature control in a historical home

My wife and I were excited to buy and move into a historical home.

We just loved all the original features such as hardwood floors, ornate banisters on the stairway and solid wood doors. The house includes large windows, ten-foot ceilings and tiffany light fixtures. There is an enormous wrap-around porch across the front of the porch and a balcony that’s accessible through French doors in the master bedroom. The biggest drawback was the lack of a central heating and cooling system. When we first purchased the home, we got by with electric baseboard heaters and window cooling units. We discovered that handling the severe weather in our area is impossible with portable units. The heating and cooling equipment detracted from the decor and cost us quite a bit to operate. It wasn’t long before we were frustrated with freezing in the winter and sweating during the summer months. My wife and I were expecting a huge remodeling project in order to install conventional ductwork. We figured the plaster walls and ceilings would need to come down, creating a gigantic mess, huge expense and a very time-consuming process. However, the HVAC contractor told us about high velocity heating and cooling that is designed specifically to retrofit into older homes. Very narrow diameter, flexible ducts are able to be snaked into the walls and worked around pipes, studs and electrical wires without causing damage. Vents that are only six-inches in diameter can be installed just about anywhere and come in a variety of styles and colors. The actual heating/cooling equipment is located in the attic

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Camping without air conditioning isn’t enjoyable

Last month, my family spent a week camping in the woods.

We set up tents near a lake and slept in sleeping bags.

Along with the foods and snacks we brought with us, we caught fish and cooked them over an open flame. During the day, we swam in the lake, hiked the trails and roasted marshmallows over the campfire. I know my husband and three kids had a fantastic time. Although I pretended to be thrilled with our camping trip, I absolutely hated it. It was the middle of July. During the day, the temperature frequently climbed into the mid nineties. It only dropped down to eighty degrees at night. The humidity was horrendous. Without air conditioning, I was overheated, sweaty and miserable all the time. With no access to running water, I had to bathe in the lake. The water was freezing cold, and I never felt completely clean. We dealt with mosquitoes, ants, flies and bees. Sleeping on the ground isn’t as comfortable as my queen sized bed and fluffy pillows. Cooking raw fish over a campfire isn’t as convenient as my gas oven, microwave and refrigerator full of options. I had to boil water in a pot to make a cup of coffee. I just wanted to go home and set the thermostat to a comfortable temperature. I missed the central air conditioner that I’m still making monthly payments on. I don’t understand the appeal of hiking into the woods and suffering without modern amenities. I work hard to be able to afford things like a smart thermostat, dehumidifier, air conditioning, surround sound and a dishwasher. I’m not happy applying bug spray to go to bed at night.
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Humidifier improves indoor comfort and air quality

Living in a cold weather area means problems with insufficient humidity.

Chilly conditions typically translate into very dry air.

Inside the house, we need to run the furnace to keep warm. The influx of heat makes the issue worse. The exceedingly dry heated air pulls moisture out of everything it touches. I live in a historical home with hardwood floors, wood doors, moldings and stairways. Dry air can cause the wood to crack or split. It’s a concern for antique furniture and musical instruments. A lack of humidity also leads to static shock, chapped lips and frizzy air. It dries out nasal passages, putting my family at greater risk of developing respiratory infection, asthma and allergies. Eczema, psoriasis, sore throat, itchy eyes and headaches are common complaints associated with less than ideal moisture levels. Plus, dry air feels colder than properly hydrated air. It’s always tempting to raise the thermostat setting. Higher temperatures increase demands on the furnace, forcing it to run more often and work harder. It uses more energy and results in more expensive utility bills. For a long time, my family just struggled with all of these unpleasant consequences. Just recently, I finally invested in a whole-home humidifier. The air quality accessory implemented right into the air handler, introducing moisture as the air passes through. By keeping the humidity levels within the ideal range, the house is far more comfortable. We no longer deal with that stuffy feeling and my family sleeps better at night. We have more energy during the day. I’m paying lower energy bills.

 

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