Things to be thankful for…

November 23, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

Up till a few days ago, my brother’s place had no heat because the boiler wasn’t hooked up to the radiators in the house. We had those portable heaters plugged in every room in the house.

This was also the case last winter - and my brother was determined not to maintain the status quo going through the second winter. So on tuesday, he started hooking up the boiler to the radiators.

There was an amazing amount of piping to hook up. Each radiator needs two pipes, for the outgoing and return flow. At the end of the day, it resembled some sort of gigantic plastic and copper octopus.

We threw the switch and fired up the boiler for the first time. And then everything started leaking. Almost all the joints near the boiler started leaking. The dining room radiator upstairs sprang a leak.

My dad said not to worry about it. Most leaks eventually seal themselves. Emphasis on “most”.

But sure enough, after an hour or so, the leaks all stopped and after a year and half, the radiators in the house warmed up for the first time.

I found my brother in the dining room. He was absolutely stunned that it all worked. “A year of putting together plumbing and various electronic parts, hundreds of different parts, and it all just works?!”

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