Yeah forgot about the delivery. Thanks for pointing that out.

Are you sure your gas bill isn’t for two months or something?

$600 bill at $1.24 a therm comes to 483 therms in a month, which comes to 48.3 million BTUs. A house your size would have 110k BTU furnace, even at 120k BTU that kind of gas load is having that furnace or boiler running flat out 12 hours a day all month long, plus like 2 hours of stove/dryer a day. The weather hasn’t been nearly that cold for that to be happening.

I’d say something is wrong with you bill, possible misread on the meter, something like that.

Edit: forgot about delivery charges.

No problem! Yeah MBA spreadsheet ninja types I’m sure. Best of luck to you, if you’re looking to make a move the best time to find a new job is while you have one.

I haven’t noticed that but if I were you I would read up on your rights. Since you’re working remotely your lunch break could qualify as a working lunch and therefore be paid since you’re not really leaving your place of work on your break. They also can’t mandate you to take a break either so them making you work 9-6 and assuming you’re taking an hours worth of breaks in the day would not be compliant from my understanding. Short breaks of less then 20 minutes are in fact paid and count towards your hours worked. While you may be salaried, you may be working overtime without realizing it and depending on your job and responsibilities you may not be exempt from overtime pay.

https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/breaks

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/17a-overtime

We’ve actually transitioned our work force to four 10 hour days, breaks included as paid. I wish that was more of the trend because the employees absolutely love it and independent studies have documented the benefits of it extensively.

But anyway don’t hesitate to contact the state DOL, I call them myself every so often with questions just to make sure we’re compliant as things change. They’re extremely helpful in all aspects.

Even going construction projects for them is a fucking nightmare.

They did major road construction there and did nothing to address that area. I don’t know why they con’t have a two lane off ramp and bring the full two lanes onto 287, the road can handle it. It’s a complete bottleneck that slows down all of 80 because people trying to cut into line from the adjacent lanes.

Some jersey barriers would be great though.

Worst highway overall would have to be 22. Other than that its sections of other ones, west bound end of 24 getting onto 287 north, oranges exit from parkway to 280, although 287 on ramp from 80 is the most rage inducing.

Exactly right. A thermocouple with a lot carbon build up may not make 100% of the time but they’re pretty robust, they’re always blackened a bit since they live inside a flame.

150k combi boiler is still around $3k. They’re simply not that expensive, unless you need to buy multiple ones to manifold together. They’re all 96% efficient.

I understand you did your due diligence on it but hvac contractors don’t buy from hvac direct.

I’m glad you got a good install out of it.

Get more than two estimates. Steer clear of large firms, they have a large overhead to feed.

I hope there was more to that job than just that equipment. Combi boiler is about $3k, top of the line heat pumps at best are about $7-9k each. Two guys for a week costs about $8k in labor, add a couple grand for material. Costs in the $25-30k range. 100% markup on everything across the board.

Lol guy telling you a thermocouple is $500 is crazy. A thermocouple costs about $10-20, takes about 5 minutes to put replace. Of course people need to make money, even if the labor was $150 for travel, etc, and they marked up the material to $50, its $200 at the absolute most.

Same with the capacitor, it’s a $10-20 part. Blower fan assembly is a couple hundred bucks for a brand new one.

People are trying to pillage on prices because they can in the current market.

Taking a guess at the tonnage of your AC unit, the replacement cost like for like should be about $9-10k range. The equipment and materials is about $3000-6000 depending on sizes, two guys for the day is about $1000 in labor, $6k costs, 50% markup. $9-10kish.