This winter has been so long and snowy and cold that I’ve developed a physical dislike for my furnace. I wake up when it comes on at night. The sound of it running, something I never noticed before, now gives me a sick feeling in my stomach. My gas bills are through the roof and my skin is so dry I have scales at my temples.
In a normal winter in Denver, the furnace rarely comes on during the day because the sun keeps things warmed, even when the highs are in the low 40’s. Not this year. It’s either cloudy, snowy, or the wind is howling, keeping the damn furnace blazing away all day.
This morning I finally had to turn the damn thing off. I just put on a big sweater. Is it normal to develop a physical reaction to an inanimate object?
It has been a really really bad winter. I have developed an aversion to my coat.
Now this is a coat I’ve had for 17 years. It’s leather, and has a zip-in lining. With the lining in, it’s rated to keep me warm when it’s -10F up to 50F.
Over 17 years I have worn this coat practically every day, 10 months out of the year, but mostly without the down lining. In a “bad” winter I might have the lining zipped in for 10 days. This year it’s been in there continuously since mid-December. And now I am really sick of this coat. I’m so sick of it that I started wearing the alternative coat, a fur, which is 80 years old and has to be repaired after every wearing. I’m tired of the cold. I hate the fact that the snow sat around for two months, collected grime, then melted, leaving the grime, so that Denver looks grimy and dreary even in the sunshine. I’m tired of wearing boots, too.
Unlike Lamar Mundane I have focused my disgust with this horrible weather onto the coat. I’m fine with my furnace. The fuel bill was outrageous but we expected that. I need a new coat, or better yet, to move someplace where I will never need a coat again.
you hate your furnace?, I now have two furnaces. The old one still gives us a tic tic tic VVVrrrommmPAH rattle rattle hum when it turns on. The other furnace is for the new part and is a Heil and its outdoors, so quiet ya hardly know its running. They are both set at 64/65 F.
I use to focus hate on the old furnace. but now it shares duty so it doesn’t go on as much. I hate my cold floor, though.
Oooh…that fucking cold floor. Our kitchen is above the cellar. When we remodeled a buncha years ago, we thought about putting a heated floor in the kitchen, but we didn’t have the money. I wish we would have done it. I’d kill for a warm floor.
Your feeling what I have most of my adult life. I did experience a period where energy was reasonable and I had extra money. I didn’t get that sick feeling when the house was being heated, otherwise you have to think of what do I give up this week.
The current furance was installed after Christmas before New Years. It’s so much nicer.
While I love my furnace, I hate feeding it. We just bought this house, moved in Feb. 1 with a full tank of oil and it’s almost gone! In the infinite wisdom of the builders who built this place 30ish years ago, they put the master bedroom/bathroom… over the unheated garage. With hardwood floors. Oh, and did I mention that there’s a set of sliding glass doors in the bedroom and every other room on the main floor? :eek: We’ve had frost on the windows more than once.
It’s freaking cold in here all the time. We have to keep the thermo at 68 or else it’s intolerably cold, even with layers/sweaters. I cringe every time I walk by and see that thermostat at 68 man. We have a flat roof, so we’re thinking of adding solar panels and the like to help make the place more green/efficient.
I can’t imagine if this house was in Denver. New England has been bad enough this winter.
