Banooners nooner

So to update you the system has been in my house and heating it for a little over a week now.

What can I say about the system?

It sounds like a fridge turning on when it starts and also when it runs. Makes sense since it is working under the same technology.

It is much quieter than a furnace although the big fan in it does make noise so it isn’t “whisper quite.”

Yesterday we had a little bit of a heat spell so the snow outside began to melt.

What did this mean?

It meant that the mud underneath would be very mucky and soft.

When they did the drilling the mud that came up would hit my driveway and quickly freeze so what this left was about 3 to 4 inches of mud underneath the snow. My wife and two daughters would then hop out of the car and walk right through the mud. Keep in mind my kids are 4 and 6 so telling them to do anything is quickly ignored

Lucky for me they are girls and not boys because when they stepped in the mud both of them quickly yelled “YUCK!” and ran to the house. This of course would not have been my reaction if I was a young lad.

My daughters do like mud except it has to be controlled mud. In the summer months my kids like to play in the garden but do so with buckets and trowels but try very hard to not get it on themselves which doesn’t work that well as their hands get covered and they wipe it on their clothes. In the end they come in the house caked in mud.

I suspect that this mud is less attractive because the illusion of control is not there.

Anyway back to my mud pie… ummmmmmmm pie.

So the mud was thick and the snow was slushy.

What a hell of a cleaning job it was to clean the driveway, if you are going to do this please don’t do it when it has the potential to freeze. The clean up would of been so much easier if I could of just taken the hose to the driveway but obviously that was not an option.

It was a layer of slush and underneath it was a layer of ice and underneath it was a layer of frozen mud.

The slush broke away easily and the ice came up easier than the mud, the mud however was the toughest as I had to scrape it off.

In the end it took me about four hours to get the driveway clean enough that the wife and kids could maneuver in it without ending up with an inch of mud caked on them.

One cool thing is a neighbor up the street saw me working outside and came by with his wife (Mike and Anna) and we talked a bit about the install and extended an offer to come in and see it when the place got a bit cleaner.

I enjoy talking to people about this and having people stop by out of the blue is really cool to me and very neighbourly.