Dust Bunnies in the Boiler

While fiddling with my boiler—trying to reduce the noise it continues to generate—I noticed that the burner manifold was fringed by a collection of dust bunnies.

Everybody knows that bunnies and fire don’t mix.

My boiler has considerable clearance under and around the burner manifold.  Being a smart fellow, I conceived the idea of using the crevice attachment on the vacuum cleaner to suck the dust bunnies and nameless whatnot away from those spaces.

My plan worked great right up to the point where the boiler fired and I sucked a bunch of flaming bunnies into the machine.

Note To Future Self:  Shutdown boiler prior to vacuuming.     

--Mitchell Hegman