{"id":56,"date":"2007-01-06T02:22:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T06:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2007-01-06T02:22:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T06:22:27","slug":"smokin-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Smokin&#8217; Hot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image55\" src=\"http:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img_4941.jpg\" alt=\"No furnance!\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\"\/>Even though it&#8217;s been unusually warm around here, I made the decision to replace the furnace.  The old beast was working, but with gas prices so high its ~50% efficiency left a huge hurt in the gas bill.<\/p>\n<p>There were some minor issues, but all in all things went very smoothly.  It took the afternoon to remove the old furnace and leave a big empty spot in center of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on New Year&#8217;s Eve, I was able wrestle the new furnace in place.  I used some concrete backer-board to raise the furnace off the ground and line its height up to the AC coils.  The concrete backer-board also allowed me to level out the floor slightly.  (Actually, I made it slightly unlevel to keep the water from the coils flowing down to the drain hose.)  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image57\" src=\"http:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img_4946.jpg\" alt=\"New furnace\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\"\/>Then I built the return plenum and repaired some of the poorly done vent ducts.  To connect the gas, I cheated&#8230;  I used a flexible gas pipe to get from the valve to the furnace.  Easy, cheap&#8230; no leaks.  Lastly, I connected the new super-fancy computerized thermostat.  This alone should cut my heating\/cooling cost significantly.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;  installing a furnace <b>is<\/b> something you can do yourself!  Of course, warm winter weather is always good to give you time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>PS.  Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it&#8217;s been unusually warm around here, I made the decision to replace the furnace. The old beast was working, but with gas prices so high its ~50% efficiency left a huge hurt in the gas bill. There were some minor issues, but all in all things went very smoothly. It took the afternoon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/301university.hatproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}