More Water Problems

As if this house hadn’t had enough problems with water in the past, I discovered a disaster waiting to happen one morning in the house. I was in the basement and noticed standing water by the boiler and when I looked up, I quickly realized that we had a major problem.

We didn’t know what it was at the time but quickly learned we had a faulty steam trap. The steam was escaping out the sides and billowing up underneath the floor joists and sub-floor above, filling the air like a sauna. After paying closer attention I could see sap oozing out of the sub floor to the point that hot sap was dripping down onto the top of the boiler from the heat and moisture! We quickly had our HVAC subcontractor order us a new part and that was installed this week.

Had it gone on much longer, we could have had some serious damage done to the floor of the Living Room! Since it has been replaced, we noticed that 2 boilers that were previously not working in the house have started functioning again! We feel fortunate that the house didn’t sit empty longer, as this problem would have caused much more damage for the previous owner.

1.21 Gigawatts!

Finally, the next big step that happened over our winter break was electricity has begun to be installed! In order to be able to charge 2 electric cars in the future, we decided to upgrade our home to a 200A system. So we dug a trench to our garage from the house for service to be installed and began to put in a new breaker box in the basement! Our electrician has now begun to re-wire our kitchen, nook, and bedroom above where the walls are exposed.