Very cool. Yep... change those filters regularly. Tom will come around to 
the Lord... a grape getting riper by the day thanks to the son your son is 
shining on him.

Brad

At 10:42 PM 2/22/2007, you wrote:

>We have two furnaces in our home.  They are both in the basement.  The
>larger of the two works for upstairs and downstairs and it is an 80 percent
>efficiency 100,000 B T U infrared start up.  In other words, no flame.  The
>second furnace is in the full sized one bedroom apartment the takes up about
>two thirds of our basement.  This is where Gretchen lives now.  When Everett
>and Donna first got married, our second furnace just died one day so we put
>in a new one and it has been working well for several years, a little over 4
>years I guess it's been.  It is a smaller 60,000 B T U unit, with the
>infrared starter, and a 90 percent efficiency.  We went to a high efficiency
>until because you can use PVC pipe instead of double walled aluminum for the
>exhaust.  This way, we could run the PVC pipe across the basement ceiling
>and punch a whole in the back wall of the house so the exhaust could vent to
>the outside.  I bet you don't have a horizontal furnace chimney.  The duct
>work is only in the apartment so we didn't need a huge house furnace but it
>pumps out the heat like you can't believe and the blower alone almost knocks
>you down when it comes on.  It has been giving us some trouble, the last few
>months, by not fully coming on.  I didn't have the money really to have it
>looked at but it gets really cold downstairs so I call the man who installed
>both our furnaces and also our central air.  I didn't know how I was going
>to pay him exactly, although I had some cash, but I didn't feel too much was
>wrong with the furnace in the first place.  So, Tom comes over this
>afternoon and in 2 minutes, he tells us what's wrong.  We needed a new
>filter and the automatic aspect of the unit wouldn't let the heat come on
>since it could cause a fire by over heating due to the build up on the
>filter.  I thought Everett had replaced the filter but it didn't look like
>it.  So Tom comes upstairs and talks to me for awhile and finally, I pull my
>drawer open to pull out some cash Gretchen had given me for her rent.  "How
>much do I owe you, Tom?" I asked.  "Nothing," he said flatly.  "Oh, come on,
>Tom.  You drove all the way down from Boulder."  That's a 35 mile trip, by
>the way, but Tom doesn't live up there, he just was working up there on a
>job.  He refused the money repeatedly.  I kept insisting.  Finally he said,
>"Look, Phil.  Everett gives me new business all the time.  I'm not charging
>you for such a little thing.  Your son has sent lots of business my way so I
>won't take any money.  He also told me to call him if we needed anything
>else.  So, although I was planning on paying him with the cash I had, the
>Lord worked it out for nothing.  Plus, I got filled in on all the latest
>news.  Tom isn't a Christian, that we know of, but he had quite the drug and
>alcoholic problem a few years ago.  He and his wife have gotten things all
>worked out and Tom sounded the best I have ever heard him today.  I'm always
>looking out for those people who are lost and need Jesus even if they don't
>know they need Him yet.
>
>Phil.