Working with a large deep fat fryer in the back room comes with a lot of drawbacks. I would never have a single of these things in a home, because they cause such a mess and generate a brutal smell. At work I have no…
Category: Heat and AC
I never chose to become a handyman, I sort of fell into it. I grew up in a poor family, and my parents taught myself and my siblings how to get the most out of everything we had. My good friend and I never threw…
What would you do if you discovered a pile of money that nobody knew was missing? I don’t mean stealing from a person, which I consider immoral in every case. I am not a thief, and was raised with a very strict religious upbringing. In…
Usually I had a steam boiler running and a fan-forced gas furnace as a backup in case something failed with the boiler Extreme weather is one of the scariest things to deal with in life. If you are in tornado alley, you contend with the…
It’s no secret among my family that I didn’t like going to school as a kid. It started in first grade when I was bullied for having glasses. Nowadays I doubt that would even cross the mind of the average six year old, but in…
Yesterday the HVAC company sent out a heating and cooling expert to my house to look at my electric heating system. Something has been wrong with it recently and I just don’t feel like I have been getting warm at all. I also haven’t been…