Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Just the bug, or whatever is going around, sinus and respiratory junk. Doc said average wait time in the ER here is 10 hours, and the hospital has run out of beds. Major flu outbreak here.

 

Do you think the leaf bag will help work at least a little bit to keep that stuff from hitting the neighbors house etc. if that situation arises?

 

Yeah mine will make that stink a little bit on the first really hot fire up of the season. If you check around you can find really long bottle brushes they make for chimney sweeps that you can use to clean the heat exchanger tubes out depending on how your stove is designed.

 

Dunno? No neighbors here...

 

That is a heck of a good idea, never thought of that. I always just take a air compressor every ton and shoot some air down there. I can see the baffle above the convection blowere where there is a little dust, but no way to get to it without a major tear down. Thanks again, I appreciate that advise!

 

I'm not going to test it with the leaf bag tomorrow, I want to see the show lol. I'll test it on another one. The calls are starting to come in for the new sweep/service/install business so it shouldn't be too long before I get another one.

Also, from the sounds of it my boss has severely neglected her Quadrafire 1200fs. I know for a fact that those stoves can hold a LOT of ash so this might be interesting.

 

Wow Imacman, I know when I was at the doc last week he told me he saw 52 patients Monday, and I was the 32 on Tuesday, and this is a small town family doc. Hopefully this cold weather kills this junk!

 

I'm a Bad Boy for what I'm thinking don't want to get spanked again

 

Bwahahahahahahaha.

 

Older daughter & I got ours a while back.......the Quadvalent version (4 strains). Luckily, neither of us have gotten a flu, but unfortunately, even the quad version doesn't cover the real bad flu going around. Guessed the people who make the decision of what strains they're going to make the flu shots for miscalculated just a little. Even that one only covers about 50% of the strains out there.

 

You folks all stay away.

 

You Rock Jen

 

It is upon us................

LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
10 AM EST WEDNESDAY...
...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM WEDNESDAY TO 10 AM
EST THURSDAY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A LAKE EFFECT
SNOW WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO
10 AM EST WEDNESDAY. A WIND CHILL ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED.
THIS WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM WEDNESDAY TO
10 AM EST THURSDAY. THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW WATCH IS NO LONGER IN
EFFECT.
* LOCATIONS...WYOMING AND CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES.
* TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR
THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING...AND FROM 10 AM WEDNESDAY TO 10 AM
THURSDAY FOR THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY.
* ACCUMULATIONS...AN INCH OR LESS THIS AFTERNOON...14 TO1 7 INCHES
TONIGHT...AND 13 TO1 5 INCHES WEDNESDAY MORNING...LEADING TO STORM
TOTALS OF 26 TO 32 INCHES IN THE MOST PERSISTENT LAKE SNOWS...MAINLY
FROM NORTHERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY INTO WYOMING COUNTY.
* WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH.
* VISIBILITIES...AS LOW AS A QUARTER MILE AT TIMES.
* WIND CHILL VALUES...AVERAGING AS LOW AS 20 BELOW.

 

Yes, but not as bad as the rest of the country yet. Sick folks need to stay out of general circulation. They are one of a few primary vectors for flu transmission.