When I left for home two weeks ago, the snow was three feet deep. We came back yesterday, and the snow is almost entirely gone. And no leaking evident in the utility room! Which is impossible. The miracle holds!
We got one of those laser thermometers to test various spots around the church. The windows and walls in the lower level are at about 13 degrees celsius, in spite of the fact that the thermostat is set at 19.5. Basically we're heating the inside of a big fridge. Up in the sanctuary, the air measures at 10 degrees but the windows are 2 and the walls are 4. So yeah, lots of heat leaking out and cold leaking in. We really need to get the new windows in, and some insulation put up! We timed it, and the furnace generally runs for 13 minutes and then is off for only 2 minutes 20 seconds before coming on again. Is it any wonder we're going through propane like a kid through ice cream?
Batting a bunch of ideas back and forth about heating the place, ranging from solar to radiators to Bitcoin-mining computers and wood stoves. Hubby came up with about ten ideas. I told him that we could just put electrodes on his brain and power the whole building.
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