It’s the South, fairly reasonable cost of living much of the time (outside major metros). But also, I only had to pay for a single service call from HVAC since they didn’t fix it the first time, thankfully, and despite everything, I don’t think either charged me an emergency/surge pricing fee. I’m rather pleased with both companies.
Ahhhh yes. The good old pressure switch. That senses whether or not the inducer motor is working which starts the flow of exhaust out of the furnace and out of the house. Safety thing as I mentioned above….
I keep one of those in stock for my furnace. It’s 20 years old and still on its original. Very impressed so far with this Rheem system. 20 years and only have had to replace the blower motor and run capacitor. Which I did myself. 
It’s a very very quick job. Matter of minutes. Of course mine is in a mechanical room, not under my house. haha
Glad you are back in business!
Best $15 ya can ever spend!
I have one for my outdoor unit on hand too and I would have changed it when I changed the fan motor last summer but the contact switch needs to come out to get to it and I didn’t want to get involved with that bc it’s 20 years old… Maybe I’ll get a new contact switch and do both in the spring…..
That unit had a sealant put in it in the fall which my HVAC guy says he’s had good luck with. Hope it works….. Went 15 years on the original charge and it’s been charged twice since. It’s R22 which is banned in NY now….. My guy bought a multi-year supply before the ban. He says he will be good for awhile…. After that last charge there was a 30 degree delta which is insane… Blowing at 39.7F at the vents…. Nothing like R22… Well, R12 was even better but that’s banned everywhere.
Happy to report I still had heat this morning! (Which is good, because Georgia is still pretending it lives in the north.)
I was always told never plant anything before mothers day, so tomorrow is no longer before mothers day!
This is fitting:
I generally aim to get at least my basil planted before now (after all, usually aim to plant a second crop later anyway), but hasn’t happened this year. Considering that we’ve had days with highs in the 50s just in the last week, no need to rush. But finally looking a bit better now; I have the potting soil in the van, and a few days coming up in mid-70s, so might actually get around to doing it.
I’m so tempted to plant a real garden; now that the last tree along the south side of the yard is gone, it’s an option again, but I know that I’m past the point of being able to make it worthwhile; I can’t even keep up with trimming the hedges! (but dang, I miss having a home grown Jersey tomato once in a while!)
Please tell me that you ordered a drain pan too.
I think we’ll go with tankless.
That’s what she said
Tankless also have a drip pan and a good install will have it connected to a drip line going to the outside or into a sewer line.
Okay. Thank you for that info. It won’t be installed until later this week. I will talk to the plumber about it.
The original install came with the house and they had no drip pan.
In Colorado where we used to live, were told not to plant anything delicate or whose fruit was soft-strawberries,tomatoes,asparagus-till after Memorial Day.
When a son came to visit(he lives in Denver) on Mother’s day, told us it has showed 4 inches on the Thurs on that week!! Disappears quick this time of year-but still…
In Wyoming, they joke about having two seasons … winter and July-August. To have a garden, my aunts and uncles had green houses to grow what they wanted (tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, etc.). When they moved to Loveland CO, they put a green house there also.
When we were kids, there was a snow storm on May 1st that buried the cars and ranchers lost around 1/4 of million cows … and that was on the plains … not in the mountains.
We’re having the house tented for termites on Wednesday, and yesterday I moved all plants several feet away from the wall, maybe 20 large pots. Some are ceramic with 5’ high cacti, probably 50-80 lbs. per pot — and the good news is, not only did I not break any pots, but I managed to avoid getting impaled by a cactus. The bad news is, my back is not very happy today. And I have to move it all back next week.
I’ve seen that done on the Simpsons, but wasn’t aware it was still done in real life. Interesting
I believe that it’s a regional thing, depending on the type of termites. I’ve never lived in an area where it’s the norm; and I hope to keep it that way (nothing against those areas per say, just don’t want to deal with that).
Around here, it’s just holes drilled around the house with something injected into the soil. Lasts for years. The downside is that I can’t eat anything grown within about 5’ of the house (I wanted to make my own rose-infused liqueur, but roses are right up against the house).
In the LA area, one has to has a termite inspection done during escrow to sell a house. Depending on the inspection results, the house (and a detached garage if you have one) will have to be repaired prior to the sale which can and often includes the house being “tented” for fumigation of termites.
In warm semi moist climates, we would expect this to be the norm. If the climate is one where there are several hard freezes during the winter time, termites will probably not be the problem but water damage to the structure maybe an issue. Deserts typically wouldn’t have subterranean termites (which is the type that is fumigated) issues either as the termites in TX, NM & AZ tend to build nests in the desert ground and is a different species.
When we lived in the high desert north of LA, it was interesting that fleas didn’t exist because of the winter cold. There could be some ticks but those were in the foot hills by the desert floor. Here in West Texas, fleas, ticks, and fire ants are a battle but termites don’t seem to be much of an issue.