Sunk the Battleship

When we bought our house the inspector told us two things about our original 1956 furnace.  He said "The good news is, these things were built like battleships.  The bad news is, these things were built like battleships."  That furnace has sailed right along, and probably would have kept sailing, but it was time for it to go, and last weekend was the weekend.  Of course, we can't plan the weather, and we happened to pick the day that we had temperatures in the twenties, and we got close to a foot of snow.  We cranked the temp on the furnace up in the morning.  We were roasting at 85* by 10AM.  It was the hottest my house has ever intentionally been.  It was a good experiment though, because we were barely down to 77* at 5pm.  Our windows were doing a great job!  Such a good job, that we had to open the windows and turn the attic fan on to cool the house off enough so the new furnace could be turned on.  I'm sure our neighbors thought we were crazy.

The major driving force behind its evacuation was our desire to finish our master bathroom.  The old furnace was venting straight through our master bathroom, causing the small shower space to be even smaller, like 32x32 small.  The new furnace vents out the side of the house, giving us a space of 32x48 for a shower.  Now thats more like it.  I'm excited to get moving with the bathroom project.  The goal is to have it done by the time the baby gets here.   It is amazing how much we notice the air actually blowing through our house now.  We can actually tell the furnace is doing its job.  And, I'm really excited to see how much money we will save monthly with the new 93% furnace.  We figure the old one was doing about 50% efficiency.
 
We've replaced the windows, plumbing, and furnace and now we have one more house "organ transplant" to do: the electrical.  Ugh.  Good thing my husband is handy :)