January 25, 2005

Personal:

It is winter...

    By Jack Grant

...so I'm not going to complain about the cold outside, but unfortunately, the heater in my apartment here isn't working. It's a single unit that heats water for regular use on demand and heats water that is circulated in the radiators to heat the apartment. I accidentally let the pressure in the radiator loop drop below the recommended range, and the safety mechanism kicked in and stopped the burner from tripping on to heat too little water. Now that I've refilled the loop, the burner still does not trip on, so the only time I get heat is when I run hot water, because the same burner is used to heat the radiator loop and the regular water.

Brrrrr...

It's in the upper 20s outside right now, and in the upper 50s in the apartment. Time to go buy an electric heater until I can figure out how to fix the heater or get someone here to look at it.

Posted by Jack Grant at 06:13 on 25 January 2005
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