 Good morning everybody, little frosty out here this morning. We had a fog overnight and that's what happens. So we're getting a bunch of work done to the host right now. And we have our friends from Browns plumbing and heating over right now. And they're installing a new high efficiency furnace, a new hot water tank, and a new air conditioner. But the air conditioner is actually going in next week. There's no real rush for that, as you can tell. They're gonna do that next week. But we got it all on a deal, so we bought it all together. Our furnace was over 30 years old and was long past its life expectancy. We had a little bit of trouble with the motherboard in there as well. It was a little bit of a short, nothing life-threatening or anything, but it was an issue that needed to be resolved. And we decided it's pretty old furnace, we better replace it. So the furnace we got now is a two stage high efficiency furnace. It's gonna have a 26% better efficiency. So our gas bills should go down 26%, up to 26%. So they're working in the basement on that right now. We got the new hot water tank installed as well right away because our hot water tank was also over 30 years old. They have a life expectancy of what? Like 15 years, 10 years, 10, 15 years. But that replaced all at the same time. So now this house is gonna be good to go for the next 20 years. The furnace will be good for like 20, 25 years. And the hot water tank, like I said, 10, 15 years. And then we'll have the AC installed so it'll be ready to go in spring. Now, we're in the back here. I believe we're gonna install our AC. I thought we were gonna do a blue garbage can. Right now we have it installed. The current AC is on the other side of the house there, outside the fence. And all of the lines are running up in the roof of the basement, which is all plastered in with drywall. And you'd have to rip out the drywall or cut out the drywall to get to the lines. So what we did was we just did a delete on that air conditioner over there. We're gonna remove it, clamp off the lines, close everything up, seal it up. And then we're gonna, because this is our furnace room and our laundry room right down here with that little window. Now the line's coming out right here. We're gonna have them go underneath the door here to there. I'm gonna build a little step here to cover them up so that we don't accidentally kick it when we come in and out of the door. We were gonna put it right in this area here, but there's already quite a bit going on here. You can see those white pipes over there. Those are the new intake and exhaust. The old furnace, which was in high efficiency, went up through the chimney there. Now you can see there's still emission error. You can still see that there's some exhaust coming out of there now. That's because the hot water tanks will still use the chimney. They have the new hot water tank installed and it's heating up the water right now and that's what you're seeing. The new high efficiency furnace, this is how they do it. They come out the side of the house here. Now the intake and the exhaust right there. They're gonna clean that up yet. Knock that down. On the air conditioner, the lines will come out of the house somewhere around here. We couldn't put it here because these two exhaust vents there, one's for the stove hood exhaust, one's for the dryer. You've got your water lines over there. We don't want the AC right beside the deck there either. So, probably one of the lines. I'll put it somewhere over here. And we'll have a brand new AC. So that one spring hits and the sun decides to come up a little higher. Warm us up a bit. It'll keep ourselves nice and cool. What do you guys think, Chevy? Diesel? They heard something. I think there's a dog over there, mate. Probably. So now we're on the side of the yard here on the side of the house. This is where our older air conditioner is. Quick, it's pretty old. So that's the unit and that's original as far as we know. That's about 30 years old. So this guy's gonna be going. They're busy working down there. I'm just staying out of their way. So now the big reveal. I'm excited. I've already seen it. I'm gonna show you guys. I don't know. I know I'm old now because I get excited about getting a new furnace and hot water tank installed. So here it is. I'm gonna turn you around here. It's a Lennox installed by Browns. Plumbing and heating. We get all of our work done through them. They're phenomenal, amazing. Highly recommend them if you're in the area and you don't know who to do. You're plumbing, heating, anything like that. Give them a call. We've gone through them for years now and they've always been on point. You know, we got everything inspected after we moved in here. And the inspection didn't go that great. It was Browns that came in and did the inspection where on their MVP program where we pay a monthly fee and then they come out and inspect your furnace once a year, inspect your plumbing once a year and inspect your air conditioning once a year for free. And they do all of your plumbing as well too. So they came out and did the inspection as soon as we moved in here, we booked an appointment with them. They came and they checked out that furnace. Remember I showed you that furnace in there? That thing was built in 1991. Installed in this house in 1994. So it was over 30 years old. It was past its life expectancy. And the fan in there, it sounded like a jet engine when it started up because it was taking so much energy it just didn't wanna turn over the fan anymore. And there was also a problem with our circuit board in there as well where it could become a safety issue if it evolves into anything further. So we got them to check out everything else. The hot water tank that was in here before as well. Also original, 30 years old. How many of you have heard of a hot water tank lasting 30 years? Our last hot water tank that was in here was 30 years old. So that was where that needed to be replaced. The inside of it was all gummed up. They flushed it out for us during that inspection. Which improved it a lot. But they could tell that it was... They didn't know how it was still working. So that needs to be replaced. And as well, I showed you our air conditioner outside. Also 30 years old and needs to be replaced. So we got it all done. All in one shebang. And we saved a lot of money by doing that. We saved about $3,500 by doing it all at once. And here we are. So this house is practically brand new now. I mean, it's still very well put together. The structure and the frame and the bones of the house is practically like brand new. But don't gotta worry about that. And now we have the furnace that's brand new. It's a high efficiency two stage furnace. So it has two levels depending on how much power it needs. So it's supposed to save us power that way. It's also a high efficiency furnace. Remember I showed you that last furnace and it vented the exhaust out the chimney. I think I explained this to you earlier in the vlog. It used to go out here, right? Now just the hot water tank goes out here and they put a sleeve up there all the way up to the top of the chimney to ensure nothing leaks at all. The furnace however, no longer goes up the chimney. This is a high efficiency one. So this one's a little different. It has the intake right here and the exhaust there. Goes around here, up there and out the side of the house. Think I also explained this to you before. Sorry, I'm trying to remember what I already told you. So everything in here is good to go, brand new. We're gonna have to move the location of the air conditioner like I was saying because these are the lines for the old air conditioner here, right? They come around here, they go up here and then they go through here and into the dry walled ceiling of the basement. So I don't know about you guys but if you are building a house in the near future and you're gonna build a basement, don't dry wall the ceiling of the basement. Okay, take it from Trucker Josh, it's a pain. I haven't had the biggest pain yet because we haven't had any big problems other than this but if you dry wall the ceiling of the basement, imagine all of this, like all of these pipes and everything, all of that is in there, in the whole basement. And if you need to access any of it, you gotta actually cut out the dry wall and re-dry wall it. It's a big, big pain. If you're doing a basement, put tile ceiling in the basement, way easier to access stuff. But anyways, because this goes through the dry walled, we can't get to it. Unless we rip all the dry walled, we don't wanna do that. And then you gotta get paint matched and paint everything, redo it. They would take care of it. Browns would take care of all of this for us but we don't wanna go that route. So what they're gonna do is they're gonna seal it off on the other end of the house, cut it off, seal it off. Just leave that in there. The new air conditioner is going to come out of the same area here. But instead of going all the way down to the other end of the house, like way out over there, it's just gonna zip and go right outside the house right here. And then that way, the air conditioner will be there. The garage is just over here, right? So it'll just be over there way shorter, way easier to keep track of and easier to maintain as well if anything ever goes wrong. Easier to get at, because what if something went wrong with one of these lines in there, right? Again, we have to rip out the whole dry wall ceiling and the whole basement is like that. It's all drywall, right? Even in here. So don't get me wrong, I really like the look of the drywall. We didn't do that. We bought the house like this. I think it looks great. I'm glad they did it for the looks. I'm not complaining about it at all. But when you do come into circumstances like this where you need to access all of the lines and the pipes and anything else that's up there, it's tile ceilings the way to go. Remove the tiles and get up there. Anyway, so that was our endeavor. It was pretty expensive. Yes, it was. If you're wondering, yes. Yes, it was expensive. But the only thing we have in here now that hasn't been replaced that might need replacing in the next 15 years is the water softener system. But that one's still doing pretty good. And I don't think we'll need to replace that anytime soon. But that is the oldest thing in our house right now. Like check this thing out. Brand new hot water tank. See, they got all the gas lines going up here. Gas shut off. That is code now to have that here. Up there, you got the little gooseneck up there. The drain, the exhaust, they completely redid. Goes around the same route as the other one. And this furnace is in the same spot as the other one. Comes up, this is all new up to here. And this is where they connected the new to the old. And that's the old ducting there. Lennox is a great brand. We went with the Lennox air conditioner as well. But the air conditioner is just a one stage. Remember at our old house, we had that super, super fancy air conditioner. We bought a variable speed air conditioner there. It costs us a lot of money. We wanted the best and we got the best. We didn't need it. We shouldn't have spent that money. We did. That air conditioner alone was more expensive than this furnace and that air conditioner combined. But we did get that deal because we bought both Thorol three at the same time, right? It's hard to tell. This is an expense that should only come up about every 20, 25 years. So it should be good until about 2050. Now it's 2023, the end of 2023 right now. And close to 2050 probably is when we'll be good till the hot water tank might need to be replaced before that. But the rest of it, hopefully anyways. So that's my big show and tell. Woo. I'm an adult now. These things excite me. I should find out what that model number is because you guys probably want to know the model of that furnace. I'm sorry, I don't have it right now. And we're waiting on the paperwork, all the invoices to be finalized because this just got done. But if you want to know, I can share it in a future vlog. Two stage furnace, that's all. That was all I really had to show you today guys. I'm still waiting to go back on the road. And I'm enjoying my time at home. So we've got a couple more things to do. I got to do some work to Old Blue in the shop yet. Needs a little bit more work done to it. We'll do that tomorrow. And then we'll be packing our bags, loading her up and headed down to Texas. I got word back from my friend who drives down in Texas every now and then. You know him, Moses. I met him on the road a couple of months ago. He drives to Texas every now and then. And he confirmed what I thought. He's like, yeah, don't sleep anywhere near the border. Don't go. When you got to go down to Laredo and you got to go that close to Mexico, the goal, what you do is you stay several hundred miles away for night into the US. And then when you have to deliver, all you do is you go down there to be on time, you get in, you get out. Get in there, drop your freight, get out. He said, don't stay there. My delivery's gonna be later in the evening too. We'll talk about this more in the future. But I won't be staying anywhere around there. We're down in Laredo, Texas. So you'll hear more about that cause I'm excited. Thanks for joining me anyways guys, for my little show and tell. I'm sorry I don't got more to show you but I'm on holiday, okay? So if you want my honest opinion, you're lucky you're getting any vlog. I just love doing this so much. Take care everybody, see you tomorrow.