As winter nears, the boiler work is about to start. We have been warned to dress warm for a while since we will not have heat when the boiler will be being worked on. But why do we have to get a new boiler and what’s wrong with ours?

We are getting a new boiler, not because our current one is broken, but because our current one doesn’t pass inspection. Once again, don’t panic, our boiler is not broken — it is just really old, which is why it doesn’t pass inspection.

The boiler work is due to be done by Thanksgiving, so that is a little while without heat. But we should consider ourselves lucky: in previous years they haven’t turned the boiler on until way later in the year, so we are lucky that it has been on occasionally already this year. And once our new boiler is installed, our heat should work better in every single room than it ever has before.