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And the House said "HA!"

About a week ago, I confessed on the blog that I was reluctantly warming up to this old house.  I felt that we had turned a point and things we getting easier.

Ha ha ha ha...(cough cough).  The house obviously heard me.  There was the water in the basement a few days later and, last night?  The house barked out a "Take this!" and rattled its gutters with glee.

On the way back through the backyard after taking out the trash, I heard a loud hissing coming from under the back room crawlspace.  This is a room of the house that was added in the sixties or seventies, we think.  To heat it, the previous owners took the radiator out of the nearest bedroom and ran the steam pipe to a jerry-rigged baseboard steam radiator. 

(We plan on tearing this room back off of the house at some point before it falls off.  Yes, it is that bad.)

So, what was this hissing that I heard?

Steam was pouring out of the crawlspace right under the baseboard radiator.  And I mean POURING!  I couldn't even be freaked out or angry.  It was just so extreme, it was hilarious!  I mean, who doesn't want a sauna in their house?  And here, in the crawlspace, was our very own sauna.  How Swedish!

Okay, deep breaths.  Gotta call someone to cap this thing off.  We don't want to fix it because we don't want to keep it and we eventually want to re-route the steam back to the original room it was in.

It's the house versus us, now.

Posted by jeanne on March 16, 2006 at 2:20 PM

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