Yeah, re-position the verticals to fit the tub and plumbing, not (obviously) they way the previous guy did it.
I am not surprised to learn that the furnace can not be repaired. Everybody else is, for some reason. Itâs older than I am, by a decade. They donât make any parts for this anymore.
However, due to the skirting being left wide open for several months, the insulation and barrier under the house is all torn to crap, even missing in some places. And that is why the gas company can not replace the furnace - it would not be up to code and would not pass inspection.
FML
We have a similar situation. Our boiler is in the airing cupboard, because itâs a sensible place to put it. All the plumbing, therefore, goes to the airing cupboard, where there has been a boiler since the house was converted from coal to gas at some point in the 1960s.
I canât replace the boiler now because the airing cupboard cupboard isnât tall enough to legally house a modern boiler, despite the fact that the current boiler was installed in 2003 under the exact same laws and nobody seemed to mind back then 
Well, youâre headed into summer, right?
And I should have clarified - weâre expected to have overnight temperatures drop into the 30s Fahrenheit.
I took some money out of the grocery budget and bought an additional electric heater. A friend suggested turning on the oven and leaving it open all day.
But we are managing. Missy and I are surviving the nights by cuddling under a heavy layer of blankets.
Oh no, autumn here too. About 3ÂșC in the fog right now. Winter soon although it looks like it might be a mild one. I reserve the right to change this prediction at any time 
Leaving the oven open isnât really a good idea unless itâs a solid-fuel stove thatâs on all the time. If itâs gas you run the risk of it going out, and if itâs electric youâre going to spend all your money keeping it going. Electric oil-filled radiators are still probably the most efficient way youâre going to stay warm without central heating, but make sure you donât overload each socket circuitâs max amperage.
Blankets are the future no recurring bills!
+1 for the oil filled radiators. We picked up a DeLonghi oil filled heater last year for the downstairs. Our windows were bad enough you could feel a breeze go through the house. It worked well enough to take the chill off and make it bearable during the day. At night we fired up the fireplace but this was a safe way to heat the house when we werenât home. The cats loved it too. Timer and temp shutoff as well but no fire hazaard. It is a big draw on the electric but we had ours plugged into an old APC just because we were paranoid. We also put a small fan behind it to blow the heat through the room. We still have it and Iâll be using it in the shop or garage when that gets done.
Also Vornado has a couple good spot heater for really cold areas. Heat and blower so itâs like sitting in front of a hairdryer but nicer. Good for the feeties.
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Oh but the stove might help. Put a big pot of water on the stove and let it simmer all day. The heat will help in the kitchen plus the simmering water will put humidity in the air and it wonât feel so cold and dry. I made sure we had a whole house humidifier when we bought the house. It really makes a difference.
Stupid question: Is the fact that the furnace is unrepairable sufficient grounds to void your purchase agreement?
No, itâs not. It was an âAs-isâ agreement. Even the fact that I was told the furnace was in working condition, prior to the purchase, is not enough to void the agreement.
Looks like I will be looking for a lawyer.
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Oh, sure, it goes on the market nowâŠ
Some of my roof slates are now in pieces on the pavement outside. Yay, winter! 
So what number is that Vault?
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Dakwifeâs sink in the master bathroom has been really, really slow for a while and today I finally set to unclogging it. Weâve dumped a number of chemical clog-busters into it, and theyâve all been futile.
I pulled the trap apart and the stench was not worth it. There was a small bit of light-colored sludge in the bottom which must have been some kind of concentrated evil. I ran some water through with the trap disconnected (bucket underneath) and it was still very, very slow. Yay!
I reconnected everything after confirming that there was nothing reachable in the pipe, and consulted a book (a real, dead-tree book!). Iâd never figured out how sink stoppers quite got connected internally until today.
Back to the sink! I put the bucket back in place & unscrewed the cap keeping the linkage in place in the drainpipe. Pulled the stopper up from above andâŠthe stench coulda knocked a buzzard off a 
wagon. I would gladly exchange this smell of the kidsâ worst diapers, thatâs how nasty it was.
Cleaned the 3 years of accumulated, well, off the stopper, gagged a few times, then hooked everything up. And finally the sink is back to like-new condition.
Now that I know this is what caused the slowdown, Iâm gonna have to do this every 6 months. Yay.
This is one of the reasons I hate those things. They are not streamlined enough to keep the crud off. Hell, they seem to attract more crud.
Yes! everything about the design of built-in sink stoppers is designed to catch crap and then it just snowballs from there. I mean, what engineering intern dropout designed this thing with the idea that stuff would flow past it smoothly?
Someone who thought that the only thing that goes down the bathroom drain is water.
Our new bathroom sink had one of those plunger-style plugs too. I made sure it âaccidentally brokeâ while I was fitting it so we could just use a normal plug and not have to deal with PlungerGooâą ever again.
Same goes for the bath when I replace the taps and trap. This time I think the box will be magically missing it.
I just loved it when we had three women in the house with really long hair. I would pull a Pomeranian out of the each drain in the house about every month or so.
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