.......was nowhere near as bad as our cleaning ladies told us. We have just had the piccies sent of the inside of the house and it isn't bad at all. In fact it's not much dirtier than our boot room in this cottage in the UK!!!! The girls told us that the whole of the house was covered in this black oily soot! Now would you have imagined worse than this? Because I did!

And the refrigerator.

Well I bet thats a relief! Frankly it looks cleaner than our house at the moment...you know what toddlers are like

Yes, indeed! I had certainly imagined something far more 'spectacular'!

Still being quoted $10,000 to replace the furnace...?

Big relief for John......who was bordering on heart attack symptoms!!! I wasn't bothered by it all but then I am just like that.


......oh and stop blaming poor little munchkin for the mess in your house! LOL!!!

Just under, but that does include the basement being dug out and concreted (old farmhouse built on mud) and a new oil tank and a new water heater and with air conditioning and including the tax. Husband is quite pedantic as to what he wants.

LOL! Have you been talking to Lena???

Adding the basement work and the A/C, $10k is probably about right I think, depending on A/C model chosen. Get a quiet one!

Hee hee!

Ah, that sounds rather more reasonable now! The death of the old boiler might be seen as a good opportunity to upgrade various bits of the house / basement then?

The boiler was going to be the first thing that we were going to replace anyway so this has just brought the job forward a bit, which suits me as winter is now approaching. Brrrr....... glad it happened really as Christmas would not have been fun in a cold house.

Husband negated to tell me that this was all included in the price!!! That is why I was so blown away by all the prices you guys were quoting on the last thread. I thought we were being ripped off, but then he explained that it wasn't just the furnace for this price.