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December 26th, 2007

unixronin: Front view of the Caer in summer (House)
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 07:25 pm

Well ... less and more are both involved, anyway.  They're just not quite the same thing.  We have less electric baseboard heaters¹, previously piled in our deckhouse, and we have more deckhouse available to use (plus a tidy little bundle of cash from selling the heaters on Craigslist).  And we have less snow to deal with at the top of the driveway, and more available parking space, having been given a pretty decent one-year-old snowblower.  (Snow King brand, 24" cut, 5HP Tecumseh 4-stroke, 6 forward speeds, 2 reverse.  It works fine, but needs one skid shoe replaced and could probably stand an oil change.)

With the aid of said implement of mass dispersion, I cleared out an average four-foot depth of accumulated packed snow from the uphill parking space at the top of the driveway in a couple of hours of work.  Yay mechanized snow removal!  I'll tackle the downhill space tomorrow.

(Oh yeah.  Need to buy reflective marker poles to mark the edge of the parking spaces.)

[1]  The baseboard heaters have been disconnected since before the Hamiltons, whom we bought the house from, owned the house.  As of about two years ago, even the electric service panel they used to be connected to isn't there any more, having been replaced by a new 200A service.  The only reason they were still there was no-one had bothered to tear them out.  We wanted to be able to put things right up against the walls where the heaters were, though, so one of the first things we did was start tearing out all² the baseboard heaters.

[2]  Almost all, anyway.  There's one still in the Dread Pirate Bignum's room that we can't remove³ without first tearing out the built-in cupboards and shelves that were installed over and around the heater, and since we don't wish to tear those out, the heater stays.

[3]  Well ... OK.  I can think of one way I could probably get it out and only have to cut and replace two supports.  But really, it's not worth the trouble.  Insufficient gain for the effort expended.