My last job

rick in Alaska

So I have finally decided I need to retire while I can, so Thursday night was my last official job. My wife and I are on our way to Seattle for the next month to help my brother out, and then I have a couple of small jobs to wrap up that I committed to, but then I am done.
So, being how life can be cruel sometimes, this is the one I got for the last hurrah. It is a Burnham LE series that the customer has been able to keep running somehow, and only called because his father in law thought he might need a tune up.
Rick, retired!

Steamhead

Congratulations!

Let me guess- someone put an 80° nozzle in that adjustable-head Beckett that's supposed to have a 60°?

rick in Alaska

Thank you! Body says it is time.
Actually did have the 60 in it. I think they had a combination of things happen, including some backdrafting, but it is all back like it should, and running as it should. Second worse sooted up boiler I have ever had, and
it had to be my last.
Rick

EBEBRATT-Ed

@rick in Alaska

Congratulations!!!

But you should have told the guy with the LE you retired last week

Larry Weingarten

Hi @rick in Alaska , I do hope you'll continue to find time to come by this place. With your troubleshooting talent and levelheadedness, there will be lots of people you can keep out of trouble!

Yours, Larry

rick in Alaska

We will be moving to Washington to be near family, so will be a lot closer to you, so maybe....
I would love to visit you down there, but I have a house to build first, and a shop for my brother, so maybe in a month or two
Rick

Larry Weingarten

Hi @rick in Alaska , I meant Heating Help by "this place", but of course will look forward to and welcome a visit! It only took me and a helper five years to build my place, so I understand the smile after "a month or two". Hope it doesn't take eight years to get the permit as it did here!

Yours, Larry

rick in Alaska

I figure you meant on Heating Help, but only after I hit the post button. I thought I would leave it as is anyway. I am not going to be leaving here though. This site is too much fun, and I enjoy a challenge figuring out problems.
It sounds like the county we are moving to is pretty easy to get along with, but it will be hard having to get a permit for anything, just because I have never had to. Unless you are in the city limits here, there are no permits.
Rick

DanHolohan

A race well run, Rick. Congratulations!

retiredguy

If you have kids and grand kids, you will never be retired, but that is OK. Congrats on jobs well done. Enjoy your time off.

Ironman

Congratulations. Enjoy your retirement...whatever that means.

hot_rod

With your skills you can never really retire. And that's probably a good thing
Good luck, stay in touch with these HH wetheads.

wmgeorge

Retired in 2007 and I have enough hobbies to last me forever... I do not need to keep busy with side jobs!!! Once people find out you do AC or you do Heating its always... I have this (fill in the blank) problem. I just tell them I have sold all my tools... sorry. But relatives know better, so you will really Never be 100% retired from the business.

STEVEusaPA

Congrats on making it and being able to retire. I heard Washington is slightly warmer than Alaska...lol

TAG

Good luck. My thought was always doing a major slow down at 55 ... build my last house. Or at least one for 20 years. Then it happened (55) and I did not want to slow down .... but I did start the project. Three months later ...covid hit. Now I want to retire and not just "slow down".

I wonder how many like that ....

Again == good luck !

rick in Alaska

Thanks all. I have enough family house and shop building to do that will keep me busy, so that will not be an issue.

 The town we are moving to only has 3000 people, and the nearest town is 45 miles away, so I would be the only guy in that area that can fix things, so therefore I am going to keep mum about any capabilities I have. 

 The town is seeing more “money” people getting out of the big cities, so I might do some custom heating as I see fit. 

 But I just landed in Seattle for a month to be with family, so am going to start out slow. Well, after I help my brother move. But that is not work, right?
 Rick .

PC7060

Congratulations, Rick!  Building out your own shop is a great retirement “job”. Good to practice on your brother shop first and get ideas for new essential tools for yours!

Erin Holohan Haskell

Congratulations, Rick! All my best to you and Tanya on this new adventure.

rick in Alaska

Thank you. Everyone here has been a great help to us, and I will still be on regularly. Now to take a nap!
Rick

HVACNUT

Congratulations Rick! You have blown your last soot laden snot rocket. Enjoy the rest of everything. 

mel57

Congradulations Rick. well deserved!  Some of us wondered, if we would make it to retirement. well done! Now watch how cleaning your hands get.       Good luck, and enjoy.

rick in Alaska

I didn't think I would make it either. My family history is that we pass from cancer before we get that far, but since I beat that a long time ago, I guess it is my time to change the family history.
I know what you mean about the hands. After the job I just did, it will take some extra time to get back to normal.
Rick

mattmia2

Congratulations.

Looks like there is about half a tank of oil in that boiler.

EBEBRATT-Ed

@rick in Alaska

I can rember soaking my hand in bleach and water. Then took a while to get rid of the bleach smell