I tried to turn the portable space oil furnace on last week.
I didn’t want to start the oil furnace since it was only in the sixties, but it was nippy in the house.
With the space heater, I could keep it in the room where I had our office & be comfortable. I took the space oil furnace into the spare study room & jammed it in. I thought it should turn on, but nothing happened. I worked for almost an hour, trying to figure out what was wrong with that space heater, when I realized it wasn’t the space heater, although I had no power; Every light in the beach house was out. Two hours later, I got a PC call from the power company telling me the power was off, but they expected it to be back on within three hours. I looked at the clock & almost cried. I had spent most of our afternoon futzing around the beach house & gotten nothing done. Now, I didn’t have electricity & i still wasn’t getting anything done.I called the Heating & Air Conditioning company & asked if they could come to the beach house & turn our oil furnace on for me. The woman who answered the PC asked if I had power. She said she could not get into her computer because their electricity had gone off about an hour earlier. If I had power, they would happyly send an Heating & Air Conditioning contractor to the house, but without power, the oil furnace would not work. I knew this & felt foolish for making the PC, but it was chilly in our house, & I undoubtedly needed some heat.
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