Letter from the principal

Hello,

Your child may have come home telling you about heating problems In Rooms 101 and 103. I want to make sure you know that we are working very hard to correct the problem. I also want to assure you that there is some heat in both rooms and at no time has either one fallen below the mid-sixties.

Not to get too technical but Chuck Z., who is the director of Building and Grounds and an expert on boilers, has been over with his crew on several occasions to work on the system. They have flushed the pipes, ordered a new pump, and made some changes to the building's heating system to help adjust the temperature in the two rooms where the problems exist. In his words they have now, "changed the operating schedule, increased boiler water temperatures, and used portable electric heaters in order to maintain 70 degrees in the classrooms." We are hoping to have further repairs made so that the system will be functioning appropriately as soon as possible.

Thanks for your child's patience with this problem. We'll let you know when it's all corrected.
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I received this letter via e-mail yesterday. Of course, despite the fact that there are 32 regular classrooms in the school, one of my three is bound to be in one of the two without heat. Ironically, Chris didn't even mention anything to me until I asked him and when I did, he was very nonchalant about it. I attribute that to the fact that he is just quite used to colder than normal temperatures! Thermostats are kept at 64 at our house, but we utilize the fireplace insert more frequently than we have in past years, so temperatures reach the mid-70s in the living room and upper 60s in the rest of the house.

We got an oil delivery yesterday and according to G's very thorough and detailed analysis report, we used approximately 147 gpd last year – 101 gpd this year) / 147 gpd last year = 0.313 = 31.3% reduction (not too bad with still being warm enough).
Just in case you were wondering.