It’s funny that I mention it here in this article about selling my furnace when you absolutely won’t read this till it is already sold.
Well, I have an old space furnace that my dad would use to keep hot while he was down in his office absolutely working.
It is one of those furnaces which has the coils that turn red when it is warming up. You can smell the burning smell of the coils as it heats up, which is kind of nostalgic for me because I used to kneel in front of it when I was a kid so long ago. We had a fireplace up in the living room that we would use often because there was no central heating in the home at the time. I had to haul the wood in when I was little and I was so weak that I could only carry one piece of wood at a time up the stairs to the living room. It would take me half a minute to bring up the twenty pieces needed to hot the home for the night. It was good exercise, so much more than how it is now with the electric heating and smart temperature controls. I am grateful to have such a convenient heating and air conditioning system nowadays because I am older and I don’t think our back would do so well with hauling up all of that wood each day. My dad is gone now but his space furnace lives on if anyone wants a piece of seasoned American heating and air conditioning engineering.