I should have never rented that house with the old heating device
I should have never rented that house with the old heating device
When I decided to rent this small house for our family, I didn’t realize the risk I was taking. I knew there was a honestly old gas oil furnace. The landlord assured us that it was a great heating unit, even though it seemed appreciate it was far past its time. There also wasn’t a cooling system installed, so every one of us had to get a couple of window air conditioning units, which ended up cooling the small space just fine. The main issue turned out to be the oil furnace though; One sizable issue was that our young children always wanted to shove crayons & toys into the heating unit. I had to turn the thing off & pull it apart to scrape off burned crayons & a little bit of plastic from several toys. I ended up putting a superb mesh metal grate on the top so no more toys could pass through into the heating unit, and also, the thing was so old & it was giving out trace amounts of carbon monoxide. The landlord claimed all that was going up through the chimney, despite the fact that I realized he was full of it. I had a professional come out & he said it was actually bad! Every one of us had to keep the windows open before every one of us were able to move to a new location where it was safer, despite the fact that I just felt bad for putting our family in that situation. I should have known that old furnace would be bad news. It was a terrible design for a oil furnace anyway, especially since children could honestly access it.