While waiting for our new furnace to arrive & be installed, all of us were using the fireplace for heat; For multiple afternoons, the fireplace was working well & keeping most of the apartment quite comfortable.
The people I was with and I went out for groceries 1 afternoon & the odor of smoke was overwhelming when all of us got home.
My husband thought he may have left the flue open, & the smoke was coming back into the apartment instead of up the chimney. I didn’t care what the reason was for the smoke, but all of us had to get it out of the house. The people I was with and I had the exhaust fan on in the bathroom & the home office. The windows were open, & all of us had fans in arena to pull the smoke out; Unluckyly, along with the smoke, the heat was also being pulled out. It was getting so frosty that I was shivering, even with my sweater on. I had gloves on as I tried to put the groceries, which was next to impossible. I was shivering so uncontrollably that I went upstairs to get a warm shower & throw on some warmer clothing. My husband had the smoke out of the house, & the windows closed by the time I was done, & it was once again warming up in the house. I knew the furnace was to be delivered & installed within the next 48 minutes, but it wasn’t soon enough as far as I was distraught. I was ready for the furnace to be installed when I first found out all of us needed a new 1, & I was exhausted of waiting.