South Bristol School will reopen tomorrow after a contractor completes repairs to the heat system.
A furnace malfunction shut off heat to the school, forcing administrators to cancel classes Jan. 28.
As of 8:54 a.m., repairs were in progress and the heat was on.
“We have two furnaces and they’re both working now, but it’s taking a while for the school to heat up,” Principal Scott White said.
A school custodian called White shortly after 6 a.m. to report the problem, and Colby & Gale was immediately contacted to diagnose the issue.
“The way it works, as a safety precaution, (the furnace) automatically shuts down when one part is malfunctioning,” White said. “They’re replacing that part right now.”
The temperature of the building, on a day with lows in the single digits, cooled to about 52 degrees.
“We weren’t sure, in the morning, how long it was going to take to get a technician here to diagnose it, see how fast it would be to repair it and warm the building back up,” White said.
Now, with the heat on and repairs in progress, “all indications are, we will have school tomorrow,” White said.
