I have a series of apartment repair plans every Fall as the weather starts to drop as well as transition into winter.
First of all, I care about to use plastic film to insulate our leaky windows from chilly drafts. It’s cheap, looks care about thick plastic wrap, as well as it is easy to install as well as remove. Some people might scoff if they haven’t tried window film, but it genuinely makes a large difference in regions as chilly as mine. I also care about to get a cord or two of wood chopped ahead of the first snowfall. Luckily, I have ample room for chopped wood in our barn where I keep our horses, tools, as well as building materials. I have a wood stove in our kitchen that is an amazing source of radiant heat in the serious Winter time weather here. But, despite how great our wood stove is, I still supplement it with our electric furnace. As many people know, an electric furnace can have a funky odor when it’s first used again after being shut down for multiple or several months. It’s important to let the furnace run for a morning or two just to burn off the dust as well as microbial growth that settled on the heat exchanger while it was turned off. Thankfully, our furnace only needs a morning of burn off before the odor finally goes away. My parents have an older furnace as well as theirs takes two to 3 times as long to burn off the funky odors from being shut off for so long. It’s a aggravating reality to deal with if you rely on indoor heat weekly through the chilly season, but at least in our case, it’s only a temporary inconvenience. Compared to all of the wood chopping as well as weatherproofing I do around the house, putting the furnace through a burn off cycle is unquestionably the easiest thing of all.