When you wake up on a Sunday morning in January, and you see this:
telling you that the outside air temperature is 15.3° ….. and that the inside air temperature is at 60.8° …. and headed in the direction that will cause it to meet up with the OAT… you don’t want to go down to the basement and see this….
where the heating system oil level indicator is hovering perilously near the word “empty”.
In fact, the indicator was being optimistic considering that the burner had already quit burning and the heater had already quit heating, indicating that “empty” had already been achieved.
Fortunately, we have a responsive heating contractor, who did not complain very much about being called at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, and who responded quickly to return us back to this:
and to the happy warmth that we were beginning to take for granted these last few weeks.
Oh, and don’t ask why the indicator is sitting on it’s side like that instead of straight up. That could cause a plumber rant.