This is what I did on Friday when I got home from work: left my hat on and jumped in the Snuggie that Alex gave me for Christmas. Laugh if you will, but that thing is warm! In fact, it was about the only warm thing I experienced on Friday. Outside? Below freezing with a windchill that dropped into the single digits at least a couple times. In my office? Cold enough that I had to pause in my work every few minutes to sit on my hands and warm them up. (Unfortunately that trick doesn’t work for toes.)
Even our house is on the chilly side. We simply can’t get it above 68-70 degrees in the living/dining/kitchen great room, which is a fine temperature when we’re cooking or moving around, but kinda chilly when we’re relaxing on the couch watching TV. Either one of our heaters is not operating very efficiently, or it’s just too big of a space to successfully heat when it’s this cold outside. I’m hoping it’s the former, since neither of our heaters has never actually been checked out. When we closed on the house in July, the inspector wasn’t able to test the two heating units since the outside temperature was too high. (In a funny twist, one of my coworkers is buying a house and his inspector wasn’t able to test the air conditioning this week because the outside temperature was too LOW.)
Add that to the list of things I need to call our home warranty about, along with the mystery of our constantly tripping circuit breakers.
On the plus side, our second heater unit seems to be working well — the bedrooms and the bonus room are quite toasty!
