Close The Door!!!!!

Remember Mom hollering at  you to close the door we don't want to heat the outside. Well, this weekend we discovered that we have been doing just that. We were heating our attic all winter long and it has been a cold winter. This could explain the high propane bills.The family room has always felt cool to us. Even with the thermostat set at 72 and a space heater going we watched TV with blankets on our legs. We rarely have our thermostats set at 72 because we feel we can always put a sweater on. But in this apartment we had to set it that high.

This weekend Bill went into the attic to run another phone line and as he was kneeling and  bending over to run the line down the wall he felt maybe a spider on his neck and then maybe a bit of a breeze, and then a full blast of hot air. The previous owner (still can't come up with an appropriate nickname for him) when he put the HVAC duct work in had stretched a section of the insulated duct so tight that it  had separated. So all winter long our family room heated air has been going into the attic. The only up side is that there is so much air exchange between the two areas the downside to the upside is that warm air rises. That is fixed and immediately we were able to lower our thermostat to 69 and were quite comfortable.

The are so many gaps and can lights  not being in the correct housing that when we go into the attic we turn the apartment lights on to light the attic. On the To Do list for later to figure out how to fix all of that.