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Our oil-fired boiler decided to give up the ghost after 24 years of good and faithful service. It has been a long time since it hiccupped and stopped, and it took always more and more time to start it again.
Claire and Momo thus decided to abbreviate its sufferings before winter : a cold shower in summer is funny, but less in winter… We don’t know if there is a Rainbow Bridge for boilers, but it deserved well to go there.
The week was rather hectic, because it was necessary to disassemble the old boiler, to empty and to remove the fuel oil tank, to install the new gas boiler, the new water heater, and new pipes. All the doors allowing to reach the basement were carefully closed ; we had to stay either in the garden, or inside, throughout the day : scandalous !
The works lasted one day furthermore than planned, because “somebody” forgot to ask Claire in which place she wanted to place the water heater. Everything was linked, ended, ready to work. Claire needed less than one second to do the stinky eye and to express what she was really thinking. And the next day, the water heater was moved at the right place…
And voilà !
Oh my goodness, not fun! Hope you’re all back to normal now!
You weren’t allowed to supervise the new boiler and water heater? That is not fair!
Bet things would have been in the right place at the start if you two were able to snoopervise 😉
At least you will be nice and warm this winter 🙂
Purrs Georgia and Julie,
Treasure and JJ
Humans!
Only a cat should supervise 🙂
Purrs xx
Athena and Marie
Oh boy! Good thing you got a new one because we heard it’s going to be a wetter than normal winter around here. Don’t know what it means for your area, but we’d hate to see you freeze in the winter.
A wetter winter means lots of rain, or lots of snow if the temperatures are cold enough. Purrs
At least it died in the summer.
I agree… no one wants to have iceicles on it’s butt in winter…. wish your new machine all the best and always full speed ahead! my dad sadly made the mistake to switch to infrared heaters after our boiler went to the pink cadillac ranch…. the electricity bills make us sweat more than the heaters :o)
OMC ! Electricity heating is so expensive ! Purrs
We know how you feel as we had a new boiler fitted last year on a very hot day!!
You were lucky that it broke down in summer and not in winter !
Yep, get it fix or replaced now before the really cold weather starts happening. Mum says ours will need its annual tune up soon.
Glad it is all fixed now, sorry it had to inconvenience you kitties 🙂
I bet you’re all glad that’s over!
YAY!! Here’s to hot showers! Love the photo! xoxo
Good thing you did it now. We had a very old boiler (our house was built in 1860) and it was big job replacing it!
We’s so glad ya’ll are all settled now and won’t be fureezin’ this winter. Dat would be bad. Luv da smirk on your face Pixie.
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
pixie & zorro….we iz glad fern niz dee sided ta call it quitz bee for ole man winter showed up…..fern niz quitted on uz in de winter N who….talk a bout iced salmon !!!!!! ☺☺☺♥♥♥
You will all be glad of that new boiler when the snow starts to fall, but you should have been allowed to supervise the process!
Oh yea, better now that in the winter, brrrrrrrr humbug! I think you would have been good helpers though!
I think having to spend a few days away from the basement is a small price to pay for having heating and hot water.
ugh…everything in my basement is so old I expect to go through the same thing at any time 🙁
I am glad the new boiler is in place and Claire and Momo will be able to have their hot showers.
Sounds like you had a busy couple of days there but thank goodness you won’t be freezin’ your tails off in winter. purrs
Purrs,
Seville
Well, at least it died in the summer, so you won’t be freezing in the winter!
We are glad to hear that you got everything back to normal before the winter. No cold butts!
Have a wonderful Wednesday…
Noodle and crew
That new heater looks SO techy-awesome! TBT is looking at a heat pump water heater and an instant water heater for the kitchen sink. It drives him nuts running water for 3 minutes to get the hot type up there. He says clean water is too precious to waste like that.
Whew, what a week that must have been. And you kitties had to be confined? The horror! Well, at least you’re well prepared for the winter now. You’ll all be nice and toasty for sure!
The old one looked much nicer didn’t it? The new one is probably more practical!
Pixie, you do look quite upset by all the commotion and denied access to the basement. Happy it didn’t take any longer than it did to get the work done, and now you’ll be nice and toasty when winter arrives. XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo