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12. Half the ceiling plaster in the upstairs bathroom (a former bedroom) has already fallen down,

and the remaining half threatens to bit by bit. But I'm really blessed that the living room ceiling got done early on. Someone had lowered it, of course, and put those hideous white acoustic tiles up. What they never did was to remove or secure the giant ceiling medallion where the original chandelier had hung. When my Amish contractor tore down that unspeakable lowered ceiling, we saw that the medallion above was almost ready to drop. It would've crashed through that cheapjack lowered ceiling like a boulder and killed anybody it managed to fall on. Which probably would've been me.

The furnace, which appeared to be the very first model Lennox ever made, had never been replaced. Not only had people been running up nearly $600 a month natural gas bills in a vain effort to warm the house, but Lennox told me after hearing the symptoms that it was probably about to blow up. They already knew I wouldn't be buying a central furnace of any kind, so I don't think that was just an effort at hard sell.