Nan: Nasty looking beast, huh?
Bob: The Furnace. Obviously Kaput. We initially got red-tagged for the copper input
line, barely visible at the left, but we got gas service after we PROMISED the nice
service man that we'd never in a million years turn it on.
Bob: Feelthy! Not a spring chicken, either, aged variously by contractors from the mid-60's to 1979, like 28-40 years old.
Nan: This is a BAAAAD Furnace! We knew going in that it would most likely have to be replaced.
Nan: This set of coils was added by an IDIOT who was trying to circumvent the gas company turn off! It was HOT WIRED into a 220 circut! It's a wonder there was a house LEFT for us to purchase!
Bob: Wonderful creative use of an old heater element. Someone must've had a run-in with
the gas company, and gotten his service disconnected. So, what does Mr. Genius do? Installs
220-volt heating elements jumpered to the main electrical panel. We got red-tagged for THAT,
too. Fortunately, we got the sellers to fix a multitude of these service-related deficiencies,
even though the house was offered AS-IS, AND we low-balled the asking price by twenty percent!
Nan: Another nasty view of the beast!
Bob: OSHA-safe and IEEE-friendly! Kids, you'll want to wire up YOUR furnace this way, too!
Nan: These pipes will be removed when they install the furnace. The copper pipe in the back is why the gas company red-tagged the gas. No heat until it is fixed.
Bob: I'll have black gas pipe fed up from the crawl space directly to the furnace closet (the way it's 'sposed to be), and be rid of this tangle! Copper AND galvanized iron! Shame, shame!
Now, see what happens next...