Friday, November 30, 2007

I'm no Dummy

Our front bedroom, Abigail's room, wasn't getting any heat. So I called our Landlord to have it repaired. It was a pretty frustrating conversation.

"Only one of your room's isn't getting heat? Did you try opening the vent?"

We don't have vents. We don't have a furnance. We have a boiler. It's a crazy contraption I haven't come across before. It heats up water and runs the super-heated water through pipes in the floor. It seems to work well for most of the house.

It was funny trying to explain the problem to the repairman when he showed up today.

"It should be working, the rest of the house is warm".

Yeah, well, Hmmm, I'll remember that when I can't put my baby in her bed because her room is freezing cold!

He ended up fiddling with some stuff, adjusting the thermostats and telling me to call on Monday if her room is still cold.

We'll see, I hope the fiddling worked.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

HMMM! Two problems I can think of right now without even seeing the situation. Bad zone control valve or a non-functioning pump. On some hot water heating systems it could also be air in the line to the bedroom causing what is known as vapor lock. Hope you get it fixed. Don't need a frozen granddaughter.