Off Topic: Worn Out

Remember I had a gas leak (three) that were found in November due to my good nose? And just a few weeks ago, we had a carbon monoxide leak, and replaced our furnace?

Well, I had bugged my husband twice after the furnace was installed (part fear, part intuition?) to test it again. I asked him the day after the install, and the following weekend, twice. I honestly did have a nagging feeling, but kept writing it off because I figured I was just sensitive and afraid after all we had been through.

I hit the couch last night early after a light day, and I was so exhausted, I couldn’t keep my eyes open. It was 6:30 PM. By 9:00 PM, my husband said let’s go to bed early. My dog was stone cold out when my husband picked her up. We went to bed. I laid there and thought this is spring, when I usually am bouncing off the walls. What’s up with me? I was mad and annoyed. Is it stress from an upheaval month? Or is it something else?

Read moreWhen my husband came upstairs, I said, “Please go run the meter and test everything again. Please?” After hearing me ask four times now since the furnace guy left, and having heard me ask him multiple times before we discovered the previous carbon monoxide leak, this time, for whatever reason, he leaped into action.

As soon as he calibrated the hand held tester, and walked in the front door –wham! The alarm blared. We reset it, aired out the first floor and did it again. It didn’t go off until we held it at the floor in an area that didn’t draft. As we went downstairs, it alarmed again. It went off the highest in our utility room, and at the furnace.

We had had enough. We called the furnace guy, who didn’t show up until 10:30, and he was here until well past midnight. He found two gas leaks from his crew’s work!! And after refitting them several times, he was unable to get a good seal. They never freak’n pressure tested the gas lines after they moved them. We are still detecting a very small leak.

Can I scream?

Now the guy is coming out today because he fears the water heater may not be getting enough draft to vent properly now that the furnace has moved. I’ve done my homework now, after the fact, and he should have done calculations and done a back-draft test which he never did. And if the venting wasn’t sufficient, he should have installed a smaller chimney liner. That was all part of why I hired this guy, and this work, if necessary, is still part of our original contract obligations!

I’m in for a long day.

I’m just worn out with this stuff. I need a break, don’t you think?

I highly recommend this gas detector we bought.