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So its been cold.. I mean single digits cold!! Not that it never does that around here.. but not for almost a week!!
Anyway, my point is.. and I do have one.. is that AnJie and I fixed a heater!!
As you know.. the house sat empty for a year, and who knows what kind of shape it was in before that.. considering what we have seen... probably not great. This heater is in the kitchen... its an older unit but seems to be in pretty good shape. We didn't use it a lot for a while because it was behind something large... Just before Thanksgiving, we got rid of the nasty old stove and tried to use the heater. I noticed that the fan wasn't working. Since I wasn't sure what to do about it, I left it alone. On Sunday, I talked to my Grandpa (thank you Grandpa!) and he gave me some good tips.
First, these heaters are usually on two breakers. Sometimes one of the breakers will trip but not the other, which would have explained why the heat element was coming on but not the fan. So we figured out which breaker it was and flipped it.... nothing.
So, next was to take it off the grill and clean it up. And wouldn't you know, it worked! The vaccum and the fan. Now our kitchen is so much warmer! whoo hoo!
Can't wait to see our electric bill.
Our plan is to get a mini ductless system... such as this: http://www.minisplitsystems.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=09KHS71
Anyone know about these?
