We're getting winter...at last
That previous thread about getting winter? I think I said something about higher temps and hearing spring peeps. Hah.
It's sleeting right now. I just woke Bob up to go haul gallon jugs of water out to the heat pump because it's encased in ice. The heat has been on but I couldn't tell if the muffled noise from it was because of the ice coating or because the fan had frozen up (I flashlighted it over the fence when I took Dan out but didn't actually walk out to it...good thing I get up early). Bob is a better water hauler than I am and much more agreeable about being out in nasty weather to begin with. It's gonna be fun getting this stuff off the driveway later...I hope the thin layer of snow underneath will do something good for our efforts.
So...yeah...we're having winter.
And Bob just came back in....fan was OK but solid ice around the unit. That's going to be an on and off thing for him all day. For some reason, our heat pump is always in just the right spot (N/NW side of house) for getting hit with anything blowing in. We do this a couple of times every normal winter and have actually had the fan freeze up before.