We're noticing considerable soot around the registers so the heat exchanger in our oil furnace must be cracked. The house was built in the mid/late 70's and the original furnace doesn't owe us anything. Will consider a gas conversion not only because of possible fuel savings but I much prefer to cook with gas and running a gas line to the house gets us closer to a gas range. I plugged in a CO detector we had in the closet so we'll know if it gets really bad.
We had a visit from Ben Franklin Plumbing on Saturday ($347) to fix a pinhole leak in the hot water discharge line. And they replaced the bathroom tub faucet which had developed a hole. The plumber told us that our problems stem from bad water quality, notably iron in the water. The last owner installed a water softener as a condition of selling the house and we've recently tried to stay on top of keeping it charged with chemicals. Hopefully this will address the quality issue.
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