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Re: Oh Baby, it's cold outside! Now it's hot! WTF?? NOW FREEZING - AGAIN!
« Reply #525 on: February 16, 2025, 09:18:56 AM »
Have you guys tried this yet?
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« Reply #526 on: February 16, 2025, 01:03:27 PM »
It’s not working here..
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« Reply #527 on: February 16, 2025, 01:06:31 PM »
Much 'cooler' than usual Winter here,but..   Nothing like what any of you members are dealing with This Winter:  Wow ! :o
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« Reply #528 on: February 17, 2025, 04:00:05 PM »
Yesterday it snowed all day. Took me over two hours to clear the driveway pushing back berms that are now +5 feet high! As soon as I put the old F350 away,it started snowing again! It still hasn’t stopped!

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« Reply #529 on: February 17, 2025, 11:53:22 PM »
 It's forecast to be -19F here in West Central Illinois at 2 am tomorrow. And below zero all week. I'm glad I retired from being a plumber. Some of you are used to this but I think it's an emergency situation.  Family members working in it are a plumber, a lineman and another plumber.  L0L!
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« Reply #530 on: February 18, 2025, 12:12:45 AM »
It's forecast to be -19F here in West Central Illinois at 2 am tomorrow. And below zero all week. I'm glad I retired from being a plumber. Some of you are used to this but I think it's an emergency situation.  Family members working in it are a plumber, a lineman and another plumber.  L0L!

-19F  :o Coold  :( !
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« Reply #531 on: February 18, 2025, 02:24:45 AM »
Was -62F in Fairbanks Alaska 5 days ago...
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« Reply #532 on: February 18, 2025, 05:00:58 AM »
It's forecast to be -19F here in West Central Illinois at 2 am tomorrow. And below zero all week. I'm glad I retired from being a plumber. Some of you are used to this but I think it's an emergency situation.  Family members working in it are a plumber, a lineman and another plumber.  L0L!

-19F  :o Coold  :( !

Same here today…… “Tunneling” to clear a path to the heat pump.
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« Reply #533 on: February 18, 2025, 05:02:47 AM »
Starting to push back the driveway again. Another +2” last night!

Update: Just finished up and the sky went dark….. It’s snowing again!
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« Reply #534 on: February 18, 2025, 07:52:38 AM »
If you have gas don't forget to keep the vents for gas water heater, dryer vent, etc cleared so you won't have that getting pushed out inside the home. Friend had a new furnace and heat pump installed running off propane tank. Had to recently get contractor out because of CO. Turned out initial install was screwed up, didn't vent correctly, didn't change orifices to switch from natural gas to propane and unit had been running so hot it had charred the filter on a couple places. They were very lucky they didn't due from either CO or the house didn't burn down. Heating cooling tech that came out to fix things has said he would testify about what he found and all the stuff that was wrong.
It will have to be pursued in small claims court. I recommended he inform the company who made the furnace about the improper install and mistakes and he see if they would sever ties with the company out of Tucson that did the install. My friend lives couple miles north of border a few hours SW of me.

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« Reply #535 on: February 18, 2025, 11:09:55 AM »
Our heat pump is working, despite being totally frosted up. I sent a picture to the installers this morning and the service tech just arrived! He’s checking everything right now……
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« Reply #536 on: February 18, 2025, 01:25:21 PM »
Our heat pump is working, despite being totally frosted up. I sent a picture to the installers this morning and the service tech just arrived! He’s checking everything right now……

Wow !  What did he find;did you getting working 100% again ?
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« Reply #537 on: February 18, 2025, 05:44:33 PM »
Our heat pump is working, despite being totally frosted up. I sent a picture to the installers this morning and the service tech just arrived! He’s checking everything right now……

Wow !  What did he find;did you getting working 100% again ?

Funny…. Yes. Knowledgable service man. He poured a large bucket of hot water down the coil face, adjusted the “defrost schedule timer” and a few other parameters. Instantly started delivering much warmer air. Spent an hour checking everything inside and out. He did not have the right gauges, but is convinced the installer under charged it. Said he would check in again tomorrow with what he needed. Just in time. Tonight’s forcast is for -21C (-4F).

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« Reply #538 on: February 18, 2025, 07:03:03 PM »
Our heat pump is working, despite being totally frosted up. I sent a picture to the installers this morning and the service tech just arrived! He’s checking everything right now……

Wow !  What did he find;did you getting working 100% again ?

Funny…. Yes. Knowledgable service man. He poured a large bucket of hot water down the coil face, adjusted the “defrost schedule timer” and a few other parameters. Instantly started delivering much warmer air. Spent an hour checking everything inside and out. He did not have the right gauges, but is convinced the installer under charged it. Said he would check in again tomorrow with what he needed. Just in time. Tonight’s forcast is for -21C (-4F).

Yeah Man  :o  You NEED that tonight !
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« Reply #539 on: February 19, 2025, 06:52:46 AM »
Our heat pump is working, despite being totally frosted up. I sent a picture to the installers this morning and the service tech just arrived! He’s checking everything right now……

Wow !  What did he find;did you getting working 100% again ?

Funny…. Yes. Knowledgable service man.

My AC guy recommends that I switch to the "Emergency heat" option on our heat pump when it is below freezing.  Our system is all electric and we're not below freezing very often so not a big deal about energy usage here.  It's on now!!!  22 degrees out....
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« Reply #540 on: February 19, 2025, 06:55:51 AM »
Got snow?!!!   Woke up to this "Blizzard", must have snowed .001" overnight on my wife's 370Z!  Moved the vehicle outside as all of her 75 potted plants are in the garage.

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« Reply #541 on: February 19, 2025, 07:07:46 AM »
It's 17° here this morning.  :o
Wtf, it was ~60° yesterday!
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« Reply #542 on: February 19, 2025, 07:28:15 AM »
It's 17° here this morning.  :o
Wtf, it was ~60° yesterday!

And it will be 76 next Wednesday when I get back from Mexico! 
Hasta la vista  cold weather, I'm flying South!!
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« Reply #543 on: February 19, 2025, 07:46:14 AM »
They are predicting we will hit 90F for first time this year next week! Bone dry and warm all winter, well not all winter had about 6 weeks of cold weather. Definitely in spring now though. I’m not able to deal with cold weather like I used to, arthritis and joint issues and few medical issues make me much less tolerant of cold weather and cool weather.
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« Reply #544 on: February 20, 2025, 08:00:31 AM »
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« Reply #545 on: February 21, 2025, 04:19:44 PM »
Making the best of a fantastic day and ridiculous amounts of snow!

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« Reply #546 on: February 22, 2025, 03:16:36 AM »
I thought that freezing low temperatures and plenty of snow was normal for Canada winters.

In Sweden (60* north) were I live we have had periods of winters when January and February were equal to -15 to -20*C. Some days -25*C and even colder.

I learned in the 80's that my nose will bleed if inhaling short heavy strokes (cocain style) with nose only when temp is -25 and colder.
New year eve night during a long walk home. Think it was when 1986 was born ;D

It comes and goes.
Some winters did not have much snow, but could be freezing cold.
It usually doesn't snow much when very cold, a thin dust of white powder.

If searching for ice age it is written to have  been over for 11-12000 years ago. Duration ca: 100.000 years. Brrrr!
Now a relatively short period of warmer climate, then back to  ice age again.

The vikings had warmer climate than we have.
"Short" ice age after that. I hope we do not get another one even if only for 50 or 100's of years.
https://www.britannica.com/science/Little-Ice-Age

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« Reply #547 on: February 22, 2025, 03:58:28 AM »
Al Gore & Leonard Nemoy was preaching we were headed back into an ice age in the 1970s when climate was giving us blizzards and record snowfalls.
Enough to worry about in life with the normal troubles we see without taking on the climate and fear of that crap be it freezing or warming. Drought and heat are typical earth cycles...maybe the climate is changing, maybe it isn't. I don't care and don't have time to bother with discussing it.
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« Reply #548 on: February 22, 2025, 04:11:19 AM »
Climate /weather is always changing. That's why we watch the weather reports on TV or phone apps ;)
Some TV channels have weather babes to look at too ;D
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« Reply #549 on: February 22, 2025, 05:48:53 AM »
The Mexican stations pander to it with weather babes whom sometimes dress provocatively. Lots of clips of their forecasts out on the web.
They don't refer to Canada as the Great White North for nothing...

Looks like the groundhog predicted correctly for part of the country. Wed/Thursday we have chance of reaching 90f for first time this year. Way out of character even for the desert SW
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