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Done with heating

Posted by K Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:13:00 GMT

So belatedly (I had to go to CA to eat a thousand good burritos and wish they had them here and then the Thanksgiving holiday derailed me), I am here to say that we did get a new boiler installed. We talked to a few people but in the end went with John Fulcher of Trans-Potomac Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc (202-258-6158), who is great. He’s been in the business for over 40 years and is a DC local and knows these old houses very well. I wish I had known about him when we got the heat pump installed, but oh well, hindsight is 20-20.

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Hooray for heat

Posted by K Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:20:00 GMT

Sooo, the latest fun has been heating, as mentioned before. We have a heat pump and could probably get through the winter on it but who can’t wait to hook up the stinky but pretty radiators and push hot water through them, making them more stinky (albeit useful and energy efficient)? Us! So we are in the get-a-new-boiler business.

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