December 28, 2004
Now what? (A completely separate subject than that in the previous 'Now what?')
I have been wondering why there was a faint smell of gas in my office all afternoon.
Now that I hear banging and hammering and (you guessed it) cursing, I know that my friends "heating professionals" are back in our basement again. My guess is there is something wrong with one of our neighbor's heater and the "professionals" have been summoned back to fix whatever they couldn't fix in the first place. Nice.
It's been pretty chilly in L.A. lately and it rained really heavily last night. Even though I was tempted to, I haven't been brave enough to turn on our heater.
Well, to be more accurate, I haven't been brave enough to turn on our heater INTENTIONALLY. Last week, I came home to find that the ON light lit up, but no heat coming through the vent. And no matter what I did, I couldn't get the light to turn off until a couple of days later.
That was when Yoshi wisely suggested that I plug in the carbon monoxide alarm that I had purchased from Costco about a year ago. Strangely, we found that the alarm wasn't all that effective while it was still in the box.
Anyway, I took a picture of the CO alarm next to our stuck-on-ON ON-switch for our heater last week.
I hope the "heating professionals" finish up soon and that the smell of gas dissipates quickly. It should, seeing as all the windows/doors are open (except the ones in the office, which funny enough, are the only ones in the entire house that I can't seem to open).
I also hope those dummies don't decide to turn off our hot water again. Yoshi might have to boobie-trap the basement for the next time they come back.
I need to be in any room that is NOT filling up with poisonous gases, so I'm going to go watch TV or something now.
UPDATE: I can clearly hear one guy in the basement yelling "Son of a gun! Son of a gun! You are such an idiot!" Followed with more banging and shit. And now he's kicking something metal around and throwing it against something else made of metal.
If anyone in L.A. needs a recommendation for a heating professional, don't ask me.
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Well, if they're not worried about banging pipes when there's a smell of gas in the air, I'd say, it must be okay. But then again, they haven't shown themselves to be very competant. So in that case...GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.
Posted by: weenus at December 28, 2004 04:56 PMYeah, that's what I was thinking... metal banging on metal when god knows what could be going on that's causing the smell. Smart guys. And funny that you commented on me having some tylenol-pm on my blog... cause that's just what I did that night ;)
Posted by: Michelle at December 28, 2004 05:39 PMOh, now, "Son of a GUN!" just doesn't sound like a good sign to me....
Posted by: Lisa at December 28, 2004 06:02 PMEEEKKKK...yep sounds dangerous! Go stay somewhere til they fix it..take care:)
Posted by: butterflies at December 28, 2004 06:05 PMDoes the landlord know the people fixing the shit downstairs are incompetent?
Posted by: Deltus at December 28, 2004 11:29 PMgive 'em some egg nog! LOL
Posted by: kaydee at December 28, 2004 11:36 PMHi Jozjozjoz
Thank you for stopping by my little place...and thank you for your kind words...
Have a great ~Hump~ day...
Hugs from Montreal
Well, the landlord is the one who hired those guys... and if he's ok with paying for THAT many visits, then it's not my business!
Posted by: :: jozjozjoz :: at December 29, 2004 10:45 AMI'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the smell of gas and guys yelling "Son of a gun" are never good signs, alone or combined.
Posted by: Kelly at December 29, 2004 03:15 PM
I'm glad you're aware of the dangers of carbon monoxide. Be careful! Maybe you're office was smelling like gas because Rev. Robert Tilton aka The Farting Preacher was lurking nearby! I have a video of the Rev. expelling toxic gas all over the place. P-eeeeuw! Check out under "Audio & Video" on my blog to see what I'm talking about.
Posted by: James at December 28, 2004 04:43 PMThis sounds like a plug without shame, but since you were talking about "gas" I had to share.. hee-hee
Did you have a good xmas?