Well after a little searching on the internet and talking with some guys at work today I found that these are humidifiers. But I still don't know how old they are and I am guessing at how they worked. One is a Skuttle and the other is a Williamson. Does anyone have any idea how old they might be?

This weekend was interesting. I was getting the house ready for the cold weather that will soon be upon us and noticed that there was a big hole in the duct work for the furnace.

 

So I went to the hardware store and bought a sheet of tin to make a new piece to replace the one in the photo. As I was removing this piece I seen something I had never seen before. There where two boxes coming out of the side of the duct work that at one time had water lines hooked to them.

Since I was working in a confined space (crawlspace) I removed them so I could get a better look at what they are. From what I can figure out is, they are humidifiers. Since this is probably what caused the duct work to rust out, I left them out and patched the holes where they were installed. I don't know much about how these worked or how old they are. If anyone has any information on how old these are and how they worked, please feel free to contact me and let me know.

So needless to say, a job that should have took an hour to fix ended up taking 5 hours to do and a lot of questions to be answered.

 

I spent some time this weekend getting the house ready for winter. Since the house was built in 1910, there are some windows that need to be replaced. I don't have the time to replace the windows before winter hits so I insulated them with plastic. This is a link on how to insulate your windows with plastic if you have some drafty windows in your home.

homeimprovement.lovetoknow.com/How_to_Winterize_Windows_with_Plastic