March 16, 2005
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OHNO!!
Get Connected
Getting your home connected to natural gas may be easier than you think. It does however require a little bit of planning and co-ordination. Here are the steps to follow:
Get a gas main on your street
Find out if you have natural gas on your street. One easy way is to ask your neighbours if they're connected to gas. Otherwise, call us at one of the numbers listed on the right.
Apparantly getting my home connected to natural gas is NOT as easy as I thought. Obviously I took the fact that I live in an advanced civilization for granted and assumed that Gas Is Available On My Street when the fact of the matter is :
GAS IS NOT AVAILABLE ON MY STREET!!!!!!
The very nice people at Enbridge informed me that for about 6,000 dollars gas COULD be available on my street. That's my six thousand dollars, not theirs folks! Of course of anyone else on the street converted in the next two years I would get a rebate. ARRGGH!
This is not good. My house insurance is based on the fact that I was converting to GAS. I have never lived in a house heated by oil. I don't know anything about oil, oil tanks, oil heat. I don't know how to get it, I don't know what to do with it once I have it. I don't have time to learn the history of oil, it took me long enough to figure out gas!!
Should I have anticipated this problem? Should I have known that these gas lines aren't readily available outside of Toronto? It honestly never occured to me.
Now, I just have to figure out a way to deal with it. I could be all bubbly and positive and say "these things are just sent to try us, but I shall overcome" or I could be all miserable and grumpy and say "these things are just sent to try us, but I shall overcome". Something inbetween is probably appropriate. These thing are just sent to try us, but I shall overcome. (Damn you, Gas Co.)
Comments (2)
That's about 9 all-inclusive trips to Dominican Republic! Oh my goodness!
I thought I had covered all the bases, looked at all possible outcomes, but this caught me by suprise!
As the old hound rightly pointed out to me, people manage quite well with oil as their source of heat. It just wasn't something I had considered. Plus the insurance problems are going to continue to give me a headache. Would somebody please MAKE IT STOP!!
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