I wondered why the house was cool this morning, 65°F, (I keep the place at 72) pushed the reset button on the Beckett burner and heard click, click, click. Called the burner service guy and fired up the wood furnace. Burner guy spent more time yakking than it did to replace the coupler that went for a dump. $242.oo After hours service call $160.oo+coupler+fuel to get here from Powassan=$242.oo Talked to him about using Power service as an anti-gel. Basically turned him onto PS. He has been using Methyl Hydrate. I don't like MH because it will rot rubber. Now I don't have to scramble to get winter oil in April after the refineries are changing over to summer oil. I'll just get summer oil and dump a couple of gallons of PS into the big tank.
Right after he left I went out and scraped some more slush off the driveway/parking area. 2 hours at that and am now back inside.
The freezing rain so far amounted to 1/8". My tire chains broke it up nicely.